Image of cover of book Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

MARIANA ENRIQUEZ Somebody is Walking on Your Grave. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 11 November 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

No casual tombstone tourist, Mariana Enriquez details her fascination with cemeteries, their histories and their famous residents. Mariana Enriquez is a self-confessed connoisseur of cemeteries: a taphophile. Since 1979, she has travelled the world, visiting...

Image of cover of book The Shameful Isles by David Price, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.

DAVID PRICE The Shameful Isles. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 6 November 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

David Price’s history of Western Australia’s lock hospitals and the ‘treatments’ meted out to Aboriginal people is shocking and important. There are large areas of our nation’s history that non-Indigenous Australians prefer not to think about, regarding them as merely...

Image of cover of book Playing the Game by Brian Stoddart, reviewed by Bernard Whimpress in the Newtown Review of Books.

BRIAN STODDART Playing the Game: How cricket made Barbados. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 4 November 2025 | Non-fiction | 0 Comments

Brian Stoddart’s multi-faceted account of a small island’s cricket history is a tribute to a time when it was the powerhouse of the game. The peak years of West Indies cricket, both in the mid-1960s and in a period of unbroken dominance from 1976 to 1995, saw plenty...

Image of cover of book The Transformations by Andrew Pippos, reviewed by Linda Godfrey in the Newtown Review of Books.

ANDREW PIPPOS The Transformations. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey

by NRB | 30 October 2025 | Fiction | 0 Comments

The second novel from Andrew Pippos draws inspiration from the epics of ancient Greece as its characters navigate a fraught world. Early in the story, George Desoulis reveals that his family came to Australia from Ithaka, Greece, and that their surname, Desoulis, is a...

Image of cover of book Venetian Vespers by John Banville, reviewed by Naomi Manuell in the Newtown Review of Books.

JOHN BANVILLE Venetian Vespers. Reviewed by Naomi Manuell

by NRB | 28 October 2025 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 Comments

Set in Venice in 1899, John Banville’s new novel blends crime and the gothic as it skewers literary pretension. From 2006 to around 2020, Irish novelist John Banville began publishing crime fiction under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. The Man Booker Prize winner (and...