by NRB | 15 Mar 2019 | Giveaways |
Another irresistible book pack to win as part of our 7th birthday celebrations this month. To go in the draw to win all six of these special books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 18 March 2019 with ‘birthday #3’ in the subject line and your...
by NRB | 14 Mar 2019 | Fiction |
Kelly Rimmer’s fifth novel ranges from family stresses in present-day Florida to uncovering secrets from the darkness of Poland during World War II. Australian author Kelly Rimmer is establishing herself as a master of gritty journeys of the heart, of families...
by NRB | 12 Mar 2019 | Fiction |
Katherine Collette’s Germaine may not be ‘good with people’ but The Helpline charms and delights. The plot of The Helpline sounds a bit dull: late-thirties mathematician Germaine Johnson is made redundant from her role at an insurance company and,...
by NRB | 8 Mar 2019 | Giveaways |
Our 7th birthday celebrations continue with our biggest ever giveaway bundles each Friday in March. To go in the draw to win all six of these special books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 11 March 2019 with ‘birthday #2’ in the subject line...
by NRB | 7 Mar 2019 | SFF |
These two collections of stories introduce the fantasy series The Witcher, and have inspired a videogame and a Netflix series. Geralt of Rivia is a famous witcher, a trained mutant who fights monsters for a living. Considered a freak, Geralt is often despised by those...
by NRB | 5 Mar 2019 | Fiction |
Kim Kelly’s Sunshine, set in the aftermath of the First World War, offers hope amid loss and despair. The lives of three men and a woman, returned after World War I, intersect in a new offering from Kim Kelly – an historical novella set in the fictional hamlet...
by NRB | 1 Mar 2019 | Giveaways |
Let’s celebrate seven years of great writing about books! Born in a Newtown pub and refined by our many wonderful readers, contributors and supporters, we reckon we’ve got something to celebrate, and we’re doing it with our biggest giveaway bundles...
by NRB | 28 Feb 2019 | Crime Scene |
Superintendent Chris Le Fanu is back in his familiar territory of 1920s Madras. In this fourth instalment of the police detective series that began in 2015, Brian Stoddart remains on top of his game. In Stoddart’s previous book, A Straits Settlement, Le Fanu had been...
by NRB | 26 Feb 2019 | Non-fiction |
Robert Wainwright’s life of Muriel Matters follows her from success on the Australian stage to becoming a leading suffragist in the UK campaign for votes for women. On 22 August 1905, a few hours after her last successful performance in Adelaide, Miss Muriel...
by NRB | 21 Feb 2019 | Non-fiction |
A charming gastronomic memoir of two years in France from Barbara Santich, Wild Asparagus also creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a country on the cusp of political and social change. On New Year’s Day, 1977, Barbara Santich and her husband John jetted from...
by NRB | 19 Feb 2019 | Fiction |
The author of The Dressmaker returns with The Year of the Farmer – a novel of romance and skullduggery in a small farming community. Part mystery, part romance, part social comedy and part slapstick, The Year of the Farmer brings together an engaging cast...
by NRB | 14 Feb 2019 | Fiction |
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel The Sympathizer shows the Vietnam war from a Vietnamese perspective, critiquing Hollywood’s renderings of the conflict in the process. When Ed Burns and Lynn Novick’s 17-hour documentary The Vietnam War...