Autumn Giveaway #5
This is the last in this series of Autumn Giveaways, so don’t miss out! To go in the draw, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Autumn 5′ in the...
Read MoreEMILY MIDORIKAWA and EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf. Reviewed by Justine Ettler
From Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell to Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, Midorikawa and Sweeney celebrate the friendships between women writers. I’ve...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Hemingway revisited
We lay under cover by the side of the road for the ambush and Paco passed me the wineskin which was heavy with the resin-tasting wine of that part of the country which...
Read MoreEMILY BRONTË Wuthering Heights. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
Sophisticated narrative layering and emotional insight make Wuthering Heights an extraordinary novel. I believe Wuthering Heights to be one of the best (if not the...
Read MoreSUSAN JOHNSON The Landing. Reviewed by Robyne Young
This novel artfully articulates the search for the perfect self, the perfect emotional and sexual mate, and the perfect life. In the opening sentence of her new novel,...
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