by NRB | 30 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
In this book Henry Reynolds shows that today’s white activists for justice for Indigenous people are inheritors of a long tradition. Reynolds’s first book about Aboriginal and white relations, The Other Side of the Frontier, was published in 1981. For many people it...
by NRB | 25 Oct 2018 | SFF |
In Severance the tropes of the post-apocalyptic genre are a jumping off point for an exploration of humanity that challenges and engages readers and exposes modern society. When Severance opens the apocalypse is underway and people are madly googling survival...
by NRB | 23 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
In this search for her father, Louisa Deasey affirms the value of love, generosity, and – crucially – encourages thinking about what a successful life really is. Louisa Deasey’s father, Denison Deasey, died when she was a child. With only one photograph of them...
by NRB | 18 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
The Football Solution is a history of the Richmond Football Club with a powerful political dimension. A week might be a long time in politics as Harold Wilson once said, but a fortnight is too short a time between Newspolls measuring voting intentions. The latter...
by NRB | 16 Oct 2018 | Crime Scene |
Cold-case detectives are everywhere these days, but the latest creation from Garry Disher, Alan Auhl, is not as straightforward as some might expect. It makes sense that at some stage Garry Disher would mesh the traditional ethical ideals of many of his police...
by NRB | 11 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
The victim of a random unsolved shooting, in this memoir Gail Bell offers a sober contemplation of the ramifications of gun violence. As 17-year-old Gail Bell walked home from the train station at Toongabbie, New South Wales, on a dark night in April 1968, a vehicle...
by NRB | 9 Oct 2018 | Fiction |
In her latest novel the bestselling author of Big Little Lies takes a group of disparate strangers into a health retreat that may not be quite what it seems. Nine Perfect Strangers is the latest release from Australian author Liane Moriarty, known to many through...
by NRB | 4 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
From asylum seekers to politics, climate change and the personal challenges of dealing with cancer, Robert Manne’s essays are a rich canvas and urge us to interrogate prejudice and injustice wherever they threaten to take root. When Robert Manne, Emeritus...
by NRB | 2 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
From Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell to Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, Midorikawa and Sweeney celebrate the friendships between women writers. I’ve heard people say that what ensures a writer’s continued productivity are things like having a...
by NRB | 28 Sep 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Peter Corris, the ‘Godfather of Australian crime fiction’, died in his sleep on 30 August 2018. His Godfather columns have been part of the Newtown Review of Books from the beginning, and we feel his loss keenly. Following are some tributes that were given at his...
by NRB | 28 Aug 2018 | SFF |
Lifel1k3 is the first of a new series from internationally best-selling and prize-winning Australian author Jay Kristoff. Your body is not your own. Your mind is not your own. Your life is not your own. Humorous and profound in equal measure, Lifel1k3 is a...
by NRB | 24 Aug 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
When you say ‘I read it a hundred years ago’ about a book you’re about to re-read, what you really mean is that you can’t remember whether you read it ten, 20 or more years ago. This is not the case with me and Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time (1951); I know...
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