Image of cover of book The Names of a Hare by Bernice Barry, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

BERNICE BARRY The Names of a Hare. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 21 April 2026 | Fiction | 0 Comments

Set during England's witch persecutions, Bernice Barry’s novel draws on the magical associations of the hare and tips its hat to Lorna Doone. There are things you’ll be wanting to know and I will tell you most of them, but there’s one thing I will not give and that is...

Image of cover of book Kill Your Boomers by Fiona Wright, reviewed by Naomi Manuell in the Newtown Review of Books.

FIONA WRIGHT Kill Your Boomers. Reviewed by Naomi Manuell

by NRB | 16 April 2026 | Fiction | 0 Comments

Poet and essayist Fiona Wright's funny and furious debut novel tackles generational inequality and Australia's housing crisis. How did it come to this? As one character puts it in Fiona Wright’s new novel Kill Your Boomers, ‘Do you know anyone, literally anyone, who's...

Image of cover of book Once We Were Wildlife by Inga Simpson, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

INGA SIMPSON Once We Were Wildlife. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 14 April 2026 | Fiction | 0 Comments

These stories from the author of The Thinning and Understory are driven by human interactions with nature – and nature’s response to us. More meltwater, more bright machines grinding back and forth, marking snow. There is panic in their colony, like the penguins. They...

Image of cover of book The Cross Thieves by Alan Fyfe, reviewed by Paul Anderson in the Newtown Review of Books.

ALAN FYFE The Cross Thieves. Reviewed by Paul Anderson

by NRB | 9 April 2026 | Fiction | 2 Comments

Alan Fyfe’s second novel is a zany, punchy, circuitous literary picaresque set in the regional city of Mandurah on the southwest coast of WA. The story of The Cross Thieves works like a strange Rube Goldberg machine. One small act of kindness is followed by a tragic...

Image of cover of book The Australian Wars by Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.

RACHEL PERKINS, STEPHEN GAPPS, MINA MURRAY and HENRY REYNOLDS (Eds) The Australian Wars. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 7 April 2026 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

The Australian Wars presents the confronting facts of white settlement, the massacres of First Nations Australians, and their resistance. This is a difficult book to read. Its subject matter is the killing of hundreds of thousands of First Nations people by Europeans...