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Oct 7, 2024 · NRB Home - Newtown Review of Books. STEVEN HAMILTON and RICHARD HOLDEN Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck. Australia’s Covid response may have had problems, but Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden argue that our country fared far better than others. A mere four years ago …
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Sarah Beth Durst calls her new novel ‘cozy fantasy’ and delivers a tale of magic, persecution – and jam-making. Librarian Kiela flees the burning Great Library of Alyssium with Caz, her chatty, sentient spider-plant assistant, and as many priceless (and highly...
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Oct 10, 2024 · 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. NRB publishes reviews of fiction, memoir, biography, history, politics and true crime. Our tastes are eclectic, and we aim to ...
ELIZABETH STROUT Tell Me Everything. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
4 days ago · Tell Me Everything is nuanced and reflective with great insight into the complexities of human behaviour. If you have not read Elizabeth Strout before, I recommend this novel and her entire back catalogue. Elizabeth Strout Tell Me Everything Viking 2024 HB 256pp $34.99. Michael Jongen is a librarian and you can find him as @larrydlibrarian on ...
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Amanda Lohrey The Labyrinth. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey. This book’s epigraph is ‘The cure for many ills, noted Jung, is to build something.’ In Part One of this novel, the main character, Erica Marsden, has many ills: she has a son in prison for manslaughter; she has memories of her dead parents, her abandonment as a child by her mother, and …
CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS The In-Between. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart
It is a state of suspended judgement, of space. Custodian of her father’s legacy, it is in Léna’s responses to Perry, to Ivan, to her mother, and to her lover that we see another message of Tsiolkas: grace. Christos Tsiolkas The In-Between Allen and Unwin 2023 PB 400pp $32.99. Jessica Stewart is a freelance writer and editor.
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Dec 20, 2022 · Jane Caro The Mother. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart. Though I knew the gist of the issues raised by The Mother before I began – I’d read the devastating stories of victims of domestic violence, watched the news, and thought I understood the issues – this novel still shocks.. Read the rest of this review.
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Evie 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 …
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