Growing Wild is the entertaining and instructive memoir of a writer and publisher who always took notice, and always took notes. If you’re starting your writing and publishing life in 2016, can you quite imagine how different things were before the...
In a writing career of more than 40 years I’ve had dealings with dozens, perhaps scores, of publishers’ editors. Some have been excellent, some good, some just all right and a few terrible. I can’t remember much about the editors of the handful of...
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written in the mid 1880s, was a world-wide publishing phenomenon. The story of its publication deserves a book like Blockbuster!. Lucy Sussex is a renowned crime fiction expert, researcher and editor, originally from...
Another great four-book giveaway to while away the autumn nights. To go in the draw, simply email your name and address to editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Autumn Giveaway #2’ in the subject line by 6pm Thursday 28 April 2016. Please note...
Family memoir at its giddy, poignant best – The Family Law captures with incisive wit what it meant to grow up Asian and gay on Queensland’s suburban Sunshine Coast. Fans of the recent SBS TV series of The Family Law will already be familiar with...
I wonder how many people now read Robbery Under Arms, published by Thomas Alexander Browne under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood in 1882. Not many, I suspect. The book was very popular in its day and remained so through the 20th century. It was...
