by NRB | 6 Dec 2024 | Crime Scene, Fiction, Flashback Friday |
June Wright has faded from view, but in 1948 her novel Murder in the Telephone Exchange outstripped sales of Agatha Christie in Australia. Between 1948 and 1966, Australian author June Wright published six mystery books, raised six children, and maintained a marriage...
by NRB | 22 Mar 2018 | Crime Scene |
An accessible dip into the world of fan fiction, these 16 illustrated short stories are not just for lovers of Sherlock Holmes. Seventeen different authors have contributed to this collection, including the overall editor Christopher Sequiera, himself a Sherlock...
by NRB | 16 Jan 2018 | Giveaways |
We’re back! Welcome to 2018 and the first of our fabulous summer giveaways to kickstart the year. To win this bundle of four titles, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Wednesday 17 January 2018 with Summer #1 in the subject line...
by NRB | 28 Apr 2016 | Crime Scene |
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written in the mid 1880s, was a world-wide publishing phenomenon. The story of its publication deserves a book like Blockbuster!. Lucy Sussex is a renowned crime fiction expert, researcher and editor, originally from New Zealand, now from...
by NRB | 24 Dec 2015 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
Over 2015 Jean’s penchant for dark and complex crime has once again been to the fore, while Linda has found a lot to like among the year’s debut fiction from Australian authors. As usual, the editors have failed to see eye to eye on anything …...
by NRB | 14 Dec 2015 | Giveaways |
Another irresistible bundle of books in time for Christmas. To go in the draw simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Wednesday 16 December with ‘Summer Giveaway #3’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email. As we...
by NRB | 26 May 2015 | Crime Scene |
June Wright is one of the early writers who forged a way for the current vibrant Australian crime fiction scene. Unfortunately the crime novels of June Wright have been largely forgotten and unavailable for many years. That situation is now being rectified,...
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