by NRB | 6 Oct 2022 | Fiction |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist demonstrates there is little she doesn’t know about human nature. Anne Tyler’s most recent novel, her twenty-fourth, French Braid covers familiar territory. If this was said about any other novelist it might be a...
by NRB | 4 Oct 2022 | Fiction |
Paul M Clark employs the tropes of ‘folk horror’ in this tale of a 16th-century witchfinder. Samuel was the most experienced witchfinder north of London. Until he’d met Douglass. Now he felt like an infant learning how to walk. Trying to find the courage...
by NRB | 29 Sep 2022 | Non-fiction |
Cameron K. Murray and Paul Frijters reveal how Australia is run by the ‘Game of Mates’, the cosy relationships at the centre of power. Given current discussions about a federal ICAC, and a continuing avalanche of corruption allegations against former members of the...
by NRB | 27 Sep 2022 | Non-fiction |
Do animals have consciousness? And if so, to what degree? Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith investigates in Metzoa. A scene in André Brink’s anti-apartheid novel An Act of Terror begins with a team of labourers processing recently caught crayfish. They take hold of each...
by NRB | 23 Sep 2022 | Giveaways |
Welcome to our fifth and final spring giveaway for 2022 One last fabulous bundle of books to win in our series of spring giveaways. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 5′ in the subject...
by NRB | 22 Sep 2022 | Non-fiction |
Elaine Pearson gives an insider’s account of fighting for human rights around the world. The concept of ‘human rights’ is relatively new, becoming embodied in international law in response to atrocities perpetuated during World War II. The preamble to the...
by NRB | 21 Sep 2022 | Giveaways |
Welcome to our fourth spring giveaway for 2022! Yes, here are more goodies for you to win in our spring giveaways. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 4′ in the subject line and your name...
by NRB | 20 Sep 2022 | Fiction |
The author of The Snow Goose tells the story of a London charlady and a Dior dress. This is an old-fashioned book. Not just because the two stories in it were first published in 1958 and 1960, but because the world has changed so much since then. The likes of Mrs...
by NRB | 19 Sep 2022 | Giveaways |
Welcome to the third of our spring giveaways for 2022! Treat yourself to these fab reads in our spring giveaway. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3′ in the subject line and your name...
by NRB | 16 Sep 2022 | Giveaways |
Welcome to our second big spring giveaway for 2022! Grab yourself some great new books in our spring giveaways. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 2′ in the subject line and your name...
by NRB | 15 Sep 2022 | Non-fiction |
Footy star Eddie Betts recounts the highs and lows of his career and what it means to be a Blackfulla. There is a genre of sports writing known as the ‘Glory Book’, where a former player waxes lyrical about wonderful moments he experienced on the playing field, either...
by NRB | 14 Sep 2022 | Giveaways |
Welcome to the first of our spring giveaways for 2022! It’s spring! So it must be time for some fabulous new books … To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 1′ in the...
JUNE WRIGHT Mother Paul series. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm6 December 2024June Wright has faded from view, but in 1948 her novel Murder in the Telephone [ … ]
ANDREW O’HAGAN Caledonian Road. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey5 December 2024This new novel from the author of Mayflies is set in London, but Glasgow is [ … ]
IAIN RYAN The Dream. Reviewed by Ben Ford Smith3 December 2024Iain Ryan’s latest novel continues his fascination with 1980s Queensland and [ … ]
MARINA YUSZCZUK Thirst. Reviewed by Ann Skea28 November 2024Argentinian writer Marina Yuszczuk puts her twist on the vampire novel in [ … ]