by NRB | 5 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
A reclusive scientist and a wild fox form an unusual bond in Catherine Raven’s memoir. I needed to be thinking of how my relationship with the fox began and why we rendezvoused every day at 4.15 p.m. We were meeting, after all, under odd and uncomfortable...
by NRB | 3 Aug 2021 | Non-fiction |
Part memoir, part urgent appeal, Claire Dunn’s new book explores how our urban lives can become more intimate with nature. For many of us, the world of lockdown has been about life inside four walls: comfy clothes, home schooling and baking experiments under the...
by NRB | 29 Jul 2021 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
The new thriller from the award-winning author of Call Me Evie and In the Clearing has a disturbing premise. New Zealand writer JP Pomare opens his sinister thriller setting a scene as though it were a movie set — which it will be, shortly. The Auckland residence...
by NRB | 27 Jul 2021 | Fiction |
The new novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo explores the life of foreign workers on the island of Cyprus. The day that Nisha vanished, before I even realized she’d gone, I saw in the forest a mouflon ovis. I thought it was odd. These ancient sheep, native...
by NRB | 23 Jul 2021 | Giveaways |
Don’t miss out – this is the last one in our series of Midwinter Giveaways for 2021. To go in the draw to win all four of these books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Winter 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the...
by NRB | 21 Jul 2021 | Giveaways |
Yes! More books to win! Our series of midwinter giveaways continues with these four fab titles. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Winter 2′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the...
by NRB | 19 Jul 2021 | Giveaways |
It’s winter. Perfect weather for reading by the fire. So grab this chance to win four fab Australian books. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Winter 1′ in the subject line and your name and address in...
by NRB | 15 Jul 2021 | Fiction, SFF |
The bestselling author of the Witcher novels turns to history in The Tower of Fools, the first instalment of his latest epic series. Andrzej Sopkowski’s new historical fantasy trilogy is set in fifteenth-century Eastern Europe during the Hussite wars (the Hussites...
by NRB | 13 Jul 2021 | Fiction |
Katherine Brabon’s timely and thought-provoking second novel explores a phenomenon with resonances beyond its Japanese setting. There is a world we live in, on this side, and another world, achiragawa, [the other side] that is a place of dreams, death and...
by NRB | 8 Jul 2021 | Fiction |
Rachel Cusk’s 11th novel is touted as a return to plot and character; in the process it explores power, art and agency. Second Place is an epistolary novel comprising a series of letters written by M to a friend, Jeffers. She writes of her experience looking at...
by NRB | 6 Jul 2021 | Non-fiction |
Michael Warner doesn’t hold back in this examination of the scandals that have beset the AFL over the past two decades. In professional sport teams compete not only with each other on the field, but also off the field for fans, sponsors and players. Despite this...
by NRB | 1 Jul 2021 | Fiction, SFF |
The author of Lexicon returns with a new novel of multiple murders and multiple worlds. ‘I hate that you make me do this’, he said, and even as she struggled, she could see that he did indeed look regretful, like a man forced to put down a pet dog, one he’d loved that...
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