by NRB | 21 Sep 2022 | Giveaways |
Welcome to our fourth spring giveaway for 2022! Yes, here are more goodies for you to win in our spring giveaways. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 4′ in the subject line and your name...
by NRB | 12 Sep 2017 | Fiction |
We know from the beginning of Marlena that things won’t end well, but the how and the what and the why are cleverly withheld. How much would it take to send your private-school-educated 15-year-old daughter off the rails? It starts out with getting in with the wrong...
by NRB | 30 Mar 2017 | Fiction |
Women’s difficult lives are laid bare with a surgeon’s precision in this collection. This is a collection of 21 short stories about women in relation to the men in their worlds. I had to think long and hard about the title. The more I read the stories, the...
by NRB | 21 Mar 2017 | Fiction |
The Possessions is an unsettling debut conjuring a world where the dead may speak through the living. What makes you you? Is it the lipstick you wear? The way you talk? An unselfconscious moment captured in a photograph? Or is it the impression you leave on other...
by NRB | 14 Feb 2017 | Fiction |
Haruf writes about companionship, love, and the damage small minds can do to gentle hearts. Our Souls at Night is Kent Haruf’s seventh and final book. It was published after his death from interstitial lung disease in 2014. It was perhaps Haruf’s own impending death...
by NRB | 28 Jul 2015 | Fiction |
Major events in US history provide the backdrop to this continuing family saga. I finished Some Luck, the first instalment in Jane Smiley’s trilogy, The Last Hundred Years, highly anticipating this next volume, Early Warning, that would continue her story of an Iowan...
by NRB | 30 Apr 2015 | Fiction |
This new novel from the author of Leaving the Atocha Station presents a worldly and liberating take on modern fiction-writing. Ben Lerner’s 10:04 takes its title from Back to the Future, from the moment when lightning strikes a clock tower and sends Marty McFly, a...
by NRB | 28 Apr 2015 | Fiction |
Smiley returns to Iowa, the setting of her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel A Thousand Acres, in this first book of an epic new trilogy. It was chance that took the 19-year-old Jane Smiley to Iowa in 1972, and some further luck that gave her a place in the renowned Iowa...
by NRB | 24 Mar 2015 | Fiction |
Beneath the quirkiness Miranda July’s debut novel is a tale of connection and longing. Critics of writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July’s work might swiftly dismiss The First Bad Man, her first novel, as another glib narrative filled with quirky characters who do...
by NRB | 20 Jan 2015 | Fiction |
In her ninth collection of flash fiction Lydia Davis writes with complex emotional ambiguity about the spaces in between. Lydia Davis began her career as a translator of French literature, and perhaps as a kind of reprieve from the unwieldy sentences...
by NRB | 23 Oct 2014 | Fiction |
This sophisticated meditation on the nature of genius was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Richard Powers is primarily a philosopher who’s managed to disguise himself as a literary novelist. He sets up his literary canvases as projects of philosophical...
by NRB | 24 Jul 2014 | Fiction |
American novelist Meg Wolitzer holds a mirror to the caprices of desire, friendship and envy in 20th century New York, a time of resurgent feminism, the AIDS outbreak, unexamined privilege and unbridled corruption. An all-encompassing palimpsest that looks at...
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