by NRB | 3 Jul 2017 | Giveaways |
Beat the winter blues with this fabulous stack of books. To go in the draw to win all four of these titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘WINTER #3’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm...
by NRB | 25 Mar 2014 | Fiction |
Hanif Kureishi’s new novel about a would-be biographer and his famous novelist subject charts a process of disillusionment. If a biographer’s role is to ‘show the world what an artist is’ then it is not merely the sublimity of the imagination or the creative process...
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