by NRB | 22 Nov 2018 | Fiction |
Barnes has made the leap across time, culture, language and artform to believably invoke the thoughts of a brilliant but troubled Soviet composer. A composer, famous even beyond the razor-wire girdling the border of the Soviet Union, receives a bad review in Pravda,...
by NRB | 20 Nov 2018 | Crime Scene |
This second book in the Ted Conkaffey series clearly demonstrates why Candice Fox has won two Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing. Following on from Crimson Lake, Redemption Point is dark, dry, funny, cleverly plotted and populated by wonderfully real, often...
by NRB | 19 Nov 2018 | Giveaways |
Four more terrific books to win. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 5′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 19 November 2018. As we cannot...
by NRB | 16 Nov 2018 | Giveaways |
To go in the draw to win all four of these new titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 4′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Friday 16 November 2018. As we cannot afford...
by NRB | 15 Nov 2018 | Fiction |
So Lucky is imbued with honesty, power, and the capacity to destabilise assumptions. The New York Times describes Nicola Griffith’s new novel So Lucky as a ‘compact, brutal story of losing power and creating community’. A genre-blurring, ground-shifting book, So Lucky...
by NRB | 13 Nov 2018 | Non-fiction |
Parks ushers us into the difficult world of science, where he gives a masterclass in the detailed analysis of scientific papers. Tim Parks is a prolific writer of novels and nonfiction, and a translator who lives in Italy and lectures at the University of Milan. A few...
by NRB | 12 Nov 2018 | Giveaways |
Here’s a feast of new fiction to win in our Spring giveaway. To go in the draw to win all four of these titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email...
by NRB | 9 Nov 2018 | Giveaways |
Four more fab titles to win as our spring giveaway continues. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 2′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Friday...
by NRB | 8 Nov 2018 | Non-fiction |
Reading this memoir by Jan Morris is like having light, charming, gossipy meetings with an old friend. In My Mind’s Eye is a thought diary which, ‘having nothing better to write’, Morris thought she would ‘have a go at’. For 188 days, Jan (as she signs herself) shares...
by NRB | 6 Nov 2018 | Fiction |
Ghost Wall is a multilayered novel, both a violent coming-of-age story and a cautionary tale for those looking to the past for a steer on the future. Ghost Wall, the sixth book by British author Sarah Moss, is as short and sharp as a flint knife. The book is a...
by NRB | 5 Nov 2018 | Giveaways |
Yes, it’s getting hotter, but it’s still spring and time to win four glorious new books. To go in the draw to win all four of these titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 1′ in the subject line and your name and address...
by NRB | 1 Nov 2018 | Non-fiction |
Leslie Jamison illuminates her own downhill slide into alcoholism and eventual uphill lurch into continuous sobriety by a scholarly investigation of the lives and works of numerous alcoholic literary luminaries. It isn’t often that a member of Alcoholics Anonymous,...
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