by NRB | 22 Jun 2021 | Fiction |
The author of Outside Looking In and San Miguel continues to zig and zag when other authors just stay in their comfort zones. Talk to Me is American author TC Boyle’s 18th novel, and while some of its themes and character types are familiar from earlier works, the...
by NRB | 2 May 2019 | Fiction |
1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary famously said ‘turn on, tune in, drop out’; in this new novel TC Boyle explores what that meant for those who followed him. TC Boyle is one of the great chroniclers of America and Americans through fiction. While many of his...
by NRB | 30 Nov 2015 | Giveaways |
Summertime … Just the time for some great reading with this fabulous bundle of books. Simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Wednesday 2 December with ‘Summer Giveaway #1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the...
by NRB | 17 Dec 2012 | Fiction |
Desolation and isolation haunt two families living decades apart on the bleakest of California’s Channel Islands On New Year’s Day, 1888, Marantha Waters arrives on San Miguel island, off the Californian coast, with her husband, Will, daughter, Edith, and maid, Ida....