LEIGH SALES Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, resilience and what happens after the worst day of your life. Reviewed by Shelley McInnis
The striking feature of this book is how much of herself Sales reveals as she takes a close look at a number of people blindsided by the ‘poison darts of fate’. A kind-looking grey-haired man sitting across from me downstairs at the National Library of Australia...
MADELINE MILLER Circe. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley
In Circe, Orange Prize-winner Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles, weaves more ancient Greek myths into a new, gritty and spellbinding tale. Circe, lowly daughter of the sun god Helios, first uses witchcraft in pursuit of her doomed love for a mortal. For...
Spring Fever 2018 Giveaway #7
We’re in the final week of spring, and down to our final two spring 2018 giveaways. Will one of them be yours? To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 7′ in the subject line and your...
Spring Fever 2018 Giveaway #6
Four more terrific books to win in our spring giveaway. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 6′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Friday 23 November...
JULIAN BARNES The Noise of Time. Reviewed by Kurt Johnson
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,...
CANDICE FOX Redemption Point. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm
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...
Spring Fever 2018 Giveaway #5
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...
Spring Fever 2018 giveaway #4
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...
NICOLA GRIFFITH So Lucky. Reviewed by Emma Ashmere
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...
TIM PARKS Out of My Head: On the trail of consciousness. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
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...
Spring Fever 2018 giveaway #3
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...
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