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WEBSarah 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... COURTNEY COLLINS Bird. Reviewed by Emma Foster.
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NRB readers’ favourite reviews of 2022 - The Newtown Review of …
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.
STEPH TISDELL The Skin I’m In. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey
WEB3 days ago · Comedian Steph Tisdell’s first novel tackles serious issues in this story of growing up in a First Nations family. Set in Brisbane, The Skin I’m In opens with Layla, the youngest daughter of a First Nations mother and a white father, getting ready for her last year of school. Layla is academically gifted and wants to go to university next year and work in an area that will make a ...
FERDIA LENNON Glorious Exploits. Reviewed by Ann Skea
WEB1 day ago · Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits Fig Tree / Penguin Books 2024 PB 288pp $32.99. Dr Ann Skea is a freelance reviewer, writer and an independent scholar of the work of Ted Hughes. She is author of Ted Hughes: The Poetic Quest (UNE 1994, and currently available for free download here). Her work is internationally published and her Ted Hughes ...
NRB readers' favourites for 2021 - The Newtown Review of Books
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 …
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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 ...
NRB readers’ favourite reviews of 2023 - The Newtown Review of …
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.
MALCOLM KNOX The First Friend. Reviewed by Ann Skea
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The First Friend is both terrifying and blackly funny. Knox satirises the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia, but he also includes grim passages that demonstrate the horrors of life there, too. Beria, Stalin, Yezhov – all were monsters. The October 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil wars, mass collectivisation, famines ...
NRB readers’ top 10 for 2020 - The Newtown Review of Books
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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