Set in small-town New Zealand, Boy Fallen is beautifully written and elegantly plotted crime fiction. Auckland Detective Brooke Palmer returns to her home town of Taonga to support her best friend Lana when the body of Lana’s teenage son is found...
Celebrate with us! It’s hard to believe ten years have passed since we started the Newtown Review of Books back in 2012, but here we are, and huge thanks to all our wonderful contributors and supporters and to you, our readers. We...
Olivia Laing puts the case for art in times of crisis. 2021 – what a hell of a year. 2022 – not shaping up to be much better, yet. Where do we turn in times of strife? Well, in search of solace in the middle of Sydney’s long lockdown...
The traditions of First Nations people around the globe reveal an intimate knowledge of the sky. We are part of the environment: the Sun, stars, rain, trees … even the noise of a bird and the wind that rustles through the trees. We are part of...
The author of Before the Fall has created a grim vision of the near future in this fast-paced new novel. Noah Hawley is angry and a little bit scared of the future, especially on behalf of his children. Those familiar with his previous book Before...
Van Badham explores the internet’s alternative reality. This is a book about how internet conspiracies have grown to influence world politics, with dangerous real-life consequences. Badham traces the rise of internet channels from Japanese...
