TRENT DALTON Lola in the Mirror. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
Homelessness, a mother and daughter on the lam – Trent Dalton’s third novel sprinkles magic dust on Brisbane’s grim underbelly. I was bothered by Lola in the Mirror. I enjoyed Trent Dalton’s earlier novels Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies, and Lola...
NRB readers’ favourite reviews of 2022
Which of our reviews this year did you enjoy the most? We’ve run the numbers to discover our top ten reviews of 2022 based on reader views. Are any of your favourites among them? Or perhaps on your TBR pile? (A TBR pile is a wonderful thing – there’s...
TRENT DALTON Love Stories. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks
The bestselling novelist brings together real-life love stories in this collection. How this book came together is as intrinsic to its existence as the 150 love stories it contains. It opens with Dalton’s letter to his friend Kathleen Kelly, who has ‘bowed out to...
TRENT DALTON All Our Shimmering Skies. Reviewed by Chris Maher
The author of the bestselling Boy Swallows Universe returns with a tale of a young girl’s quest. Following the resounding acclaim for his debut novel, Trent Dalton has drawn together some of the elements that made Boy Swallows Universe such a success and remixed...
Must-reads of 2018
From fiction to crime to history, essays, memoir and literary letters, the NRB editors choose ten of the reviews we published in 2018 of books we think deserve to go on your TBR pile. Jean’s picks: Ali Smith Winter The first of Ali Smith’s...
TRENT DALTON Boy Swallows Universe. Reviewed by Chris Maher
Boy Swallows Universe is a first novel rich in adventure, description and plot. Mark Twain famously said that truth is stranger than fiction, and the parts of Boy Swallows Universe that draw on Trent Dalton’s actual boyhood are as intriguing as the fictional plot...
Recent Posts
FIONA HARDY Unbury the Dead. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm22 April 2025Melbourne author Fiona Hardy has broken very different ground with her crime [ … ]
CLEM BASTOW and JO CASE (eds) Someone Like Me: An anthology of non-fiction by Autistic writers. Reviewed by Kylie Mason17 April 2025This diverse anthology challenges stereotypes by bringing together Autistic [ … ]
RACHEL MORTON The Sun Was Electric Light. Reviewed by Ann Skea15 April 2025Set in Guatemala, Australian Rachel Morton’s debut novel of a young woman [ … ]
DAVID MARR My Country: Stories, essays and speeches. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck10 April 2025In this collection, David Marr presents 50 years of his thinking and writing [ … ]