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WEBThe Newtown Review of Books - Sydney's original online review of books, established March 2012. MALCOLM KNOX The First Friend. Reviewed by Ann Skea. Posted on 12 Sep 2024 in Fiction | 0 comments. Malcolm Knox’s new novel satirises the brutal madness of the Soviet Union, focussing on Stalin’s notorious head of secret police, Beria.
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WEBGAIL PARENT Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York; SARAH ROSE ETTER Ripe. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart. When Gail Parent published Sheila Levine in 1972 it wasn’t called a ‘sad girl novel’; in 2024 Sarah Rose Etter’s Ripe …
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WEBNRB readers’ favourites for 2021. Tags: Amanda Lohrey/ Briohny Doyle/ Carly Findlay/ Douglas Stuart/ Emily Maguire/ John Hughes/ JP Pomare/ Kazuo Ishiguro/ Michael Mohammed Ahmad/ Rebecca Starford Which were the reviews you enjoyed the most this year? We’ve come up with the ten most popular reviews we’ve run …
MYKAELA SAUNDERS Always Will Be. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
WEBMykaela Saunders’ stories imagine a future where the connection to land and culture is central. Mykaela Saunders won an Aurealis award for her exciting and thought-provoking anthology of First Nations speculative fiction This All Come Back Now.In the same year her own collection of speculative short stories, Always Will Be, won the David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres ...
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WEBAbout Newtown Review of Books. Who we are | What we do | Get hold of the books | Quoting from NRB Contribute | Get Reviewed. The Newtown Review of Books was established in March 2012 by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell as an independent site for book reviews.. We believe that a strong reviewing culture is important for both writers and readers. The Newtown Review of Books is produced entirely by ...
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WEBNRB readers’ favourite reviews of 2022. Tags: Amor Towles/ Audrey Magee/ Diana Reid/ Douglas Stuart/ Edwina Preston/ Elif Shafak/ Gillian McAllister/ Isabel Allende/ Jane Caro/ Trent Dalton 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.
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WEBKylie Needham Girl in a Pink Dress. Reviewed by Annette Hughes. The ‘girl in a pink dress’ is Frances, a young art student who charms her tutor (twice her age) and becomes his muse … the author slowly dissolves the dark layers of varnish obscuring the truth that Frances conceals from herself, and therein lies the pleasure of this novel.
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WEBEvie Wyld The Bass Rock. Reviewed by Linda Funnell. The Bass Rock opens with a small girl, who we will shortly meet as the grown-up Viv, finding the body of a woman in a suitcase on the beach.As her mother cries, ‘Come away, come away,’ the child sees inside the suitcase … [This is] an absorbing, and disturbing, account of three women’s lives and the violence that surrounds them.
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WEBBETH SPENCER The Age of Fibs: extract. Award-winning author Beth Spencer ranges across popular culture, the environment, and the body in her new collection.