by NRB | 17 Nov 2022 | Fiction |
Alice Ryan’s debut novel puts an extended family on the trail of their missing Molly. Molly Black had disappeared … That’s why the whole Black clan – from Granny all the way to Killan on Zoom from Sydney – is huddled together in the back room of Uncle...
by NRB | 27 Oct 2022 | Fiction |
In Claire Keegan’s novella of Ireland in the 1980s, a good man faces a testing decision. In the cosmopolitan Ireland of blockbuster millennial novelist Sally Rooney, the main issues are capitalism and class rather than religion and religious institutions....
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 | 7 Apr 2022 | Fiction |
The new novel from the author of The Undertaking explores the impact of colonialism on one small island. Mr Lloyd is an artist who describes himself as ‘half married’ to his artist, art-dealer, wife. She now prefers another man and his ‘loud’, ‘declamatory’ art and...
by NRB | 15 Feb 2022 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
Hannah King’s debut novel is an unsettling murder mystery with a longstanding female friendship at its core. She and I is a detective story with a difference. It is set in Ireland but there are few indications of this, apart from a police officer’s query about...
by NRB | 1 Sep 2020 | Fiction |
Caoilinn Hughes’s second novel, The Wild Laughter, explores what happens in post-boom Ireland when a father makes a life-altering request of his sons. There is plenty of laughter in this book. Hart (Doharty) Black’s way of telling his story is unique, colourful...