This new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Reef explores memories of a Sri Lankan childhood. Kairo is looking back at his younger self: at a summer in his home in Colombo in 1964, when school was closed and he was aimlessly riding his...
Self-isolating? Looking for something to read? Check out these four titles in our latest Autumn Giveaway. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Autumn 3′ in the subject line and your name...
Donna Ward’s memoir explores spinsterhood, solitude, and shattering stereotypes. Publisher and poet Donna Ward describes this, her first book, as a meander through her life. In describing it this way she is thinking poor, as she admits to...
Kim Kelly’s newest novel is a story of love, ambition and prejudice in the medical world. When Kim Kelly stumbled across the true story of how a brilliant German–Australian orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Max Herz, had been interned as an enemy alien...
Welcome to our second big Autumn Giveaway. To go in the draw to win all four books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Autumn 2′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight,...
Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga takes on the issue of refugees and asylum seekers in his latest novel Amnesty. Set in Sydney, on a day sometime in the recent past, Amnesty concentrates on Dhananjaya Rajaratnam, aka Danny the Cleaner, as...
