Image of cover of book Dead Centre by Richard Denniss, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.

RICHARD DENNISS Dead Centre: How political pragmatism is killing us. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 18 November 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

Richard Denniss provides a chilling analysis of the ploys our politicians use to govern in the interests of everyone but the public. Public choice theory employs basic economic analysis to posit that public officials, such as politicians, are self-interested. There is...

Image of cover of book Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher, reviewed by Amelia Dudley in the Newtown Review of Books.

T KINGFISHER Hemlock and Silver. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 13 November 2025 | Fiction, SFF | 0 Comments

Poison, mirror worlds, a life in danger and a seemingly impossible task – T Kingfisher’s latest fantasy has them all. And a talking cat. Healer Anja isn't fully comfortable with being called a healer, as her main passion is studying poisons and their antidotes rather...

Image of cover of book Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

MARIANA ENRIQUEZ Somebody is Walking on Your Grave. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 11 November 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

No casual tombstone tourist, Mariana Enriquez details her fascination with cemeteries, their histories and their famous residents. Mariana Enriquez is a self-confessed connoisseur of cemeteries: a taphophile. Since 1979, she has travelled the world, visiting...

Image of cover of book The Shameful Isles by David Price, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.

DAVID PRICE The Shameful Isles. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 6 November 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

David Price’s history of Western Australia’s lock hospitals and the ‘treatments’ meted out to Aboriginal people is shocking and important. There are large areas of our nation’s history that non-Indigenous Australians prefer not to think about, regarding them as merely...

Image of cover of book Playing the Game by Brian Stoddart, reviewed by Bernard Whimpress in the Newtown Review of Books.

BRIAN STODDART Playing the Game: How cricket made Barbados. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 4 November 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

Brian Stoddart’s multi-faceted account of a small island’s cricket history is a tribute to a time when it was the powerhouse of the game. The peak years of West Indies cricket, both in the mid-1960s and in a period of unbroken dominance from 1976 to 1995, saw plenty...