by NRB | 4 Dec 2020 | Giveaways |
We’ve got more fab books to give away to celebrate the festive season. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Christmas 4′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight...
by NRB | 24 Apr 2020 | Extracts, Non-fiction |
This week’s extract is from Cathy Perkins’s biography of Australian poet Zora Cross. Largely unknown today, she was a sensation when, still in her 20s, she published the bestselling Songs of Love and Life in 1917. Frankly erotic by the standards of...
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