Image of cover of book Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst, reviewed by Catherine Pardey in the Newtown Review of Books.

ALAN HOLLINGHURST Our Evenings. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey

by NRB | 20 March 2025 | Fiction | 0 Comments

The Booker-winning author of The Line of Beauty delivers a novel about class, race – and Brexit. In his latest novel, Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst continues his exploration of outsider as insider, although in this novel his protagonist, Dave, has to contend with...

Image of cover of book The Dream of a Tree by Maja Lunde, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

MAJA LUNDE The Dream of a Tree. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 18 March 2025 | Fiction | 0 Comments

The new novel from the Norwegian author of The History of Bees imagines a dystopian future where seeds are more precious than ever. The year was 2097 and Tommy was five years old. He was playing on the beach of the abandoned container harbour in Longyearbyen on the...

Image of cover of book The Grapevine by Kate Kemp, reviewed by Sally Nimon in the Newtown Review of Books.

KATE KEMP The Grapevine. Reviewed by Sally Nimon

by NRB | 13 March 2025 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 Comments

Psychologist Kate Kemp’s debut novel opens with blood spatters and goes on to unravel the secrets of a suburban street in 1970s Australia. The time is 1979. The place (namely Warrah Place) is suburban Canberra. It’s summer and the heat is oppressive, disrupting the...

Image of cover of book Thoroughly Disenchanted by Alexandra Almond, reviewed by Amelia Dudley in the Newtown Review of Books.

ALEXANDRA ALMOND Thoroughly Disenchanted. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley

by NRB | 11 March 2025 | Fiction, SFF | 0 Comments

Alexandra Almond’s cosy fantasy demonstrates why you really should be careful what you wish for. In Australian author Alexandra Almond's debut fantasy novel, lovers Genevieve and Oliver spent a weekend in an enchanting old house – that may or may not be haunted – and...

Image of cover of book Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky, reviewed by Robert Goodman in the Newtown Review of Books.

ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY Shroud. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

by NRB | 6 March 2025 | Fiction, SFF | 0 Comments

Adrian Tchaikovsky imagines a planet inhabited by intelligent life yet toxic to the humans who urgently need to understand it. Hot on the heels of the third book in his incredible Tyrant Philosophers fantasy series, prolific and multi-award-winning British science...