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Midwinter 2021 Giveaway #3

Posted on 23 Jul 2021 in Giveaways & Quizzes |

Don’t miss out – this is the last one in our series of Midwinter Giveaways for 2021. To go in the draw to win all four of these books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Winter 3′ in the subject line and your name...

Midwinter 2021 Giveaway #2

Posted on 21 Jul 2021 in Giveaways & Quizzes |

Yes! More books to win! Our series of midwinter giveaways continues with these four fab titles. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Winter 2′ in the subject line and your name and address...

Midwinter 2021 Giveaway #1

Posted on 19 Jul 2021 in Giveaways & Quizzes | 1 comment

It’s winter. Perfect weather for reading by the fire. So grab this chance to win four fab Australian books. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Winter 1′ in the subject line and your...

KATHERINE BRABON The Shut Ins. Reviewed by Ann Skea

Posted on 13 Jul 2021 in Fiction | 1 comment

Katherine Brabon’s timely and thought-provoking second novel explores a phenomenon with resonances beyond its Japanese setting. There is a world we live in, on this side, and another world, achiragawa, [the other side] that is a place of...

RACHEL CUSK Second Place. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey

Posted on 8 Jul 2021 in Fiction |

Rachel Cusk’s 11th novel is touted as a return to plot and character; in the process it explores power, art and agency. Second Place is an epistolary novel comprising a series of letters written by M to a friend, Jeffers. She writes of her...