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NRB Home - Newtown Review of Books. The author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident turns to historical fiction to tell the story of a young ninth-century woman whose quest for knowledge will not be denied. Rapture is a romance. Not just because it follows the love and passion of an unconventional... Rodney Hall has won the Miles Franklin ...
MINETTE WALTERS The Players. Reviewed by Ann Skea
1 day ago · Minette Walters The Players Allen & Unwin 2024 PB 496pp $34.99. 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 webpages (ann.skea ...
DAVID DUFTY Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession. Reviewed by …
2 days ago · Many great men are remembered for only one thing, and for Charles Todd it is building the Overland Telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin in the 1870s. David Dufty’s book Charles Todd’s Magnificent Obsession is not a biography but rather a venture story set against the background of the rapid ...
ANN LIANG A Song to Drown Rivers. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley
3 days ago · Ann Liang’s first novel for adults reimagines an ancient Chinese tale of deception and betrayal – and the life of a legendary beauty. Based on the story of one of the Four Beauties of ancient China, Liang’s novel is a gripping tale about love, war, sacrifice and betrayal. While the basic outline of the plot is taken from history and myth, Xishi’s story is told in an entirely new way ...
EMILY MAGUIRE Rapture. Reviewed by Ann Skea
Nov 13, 2024 · Emily Maguire Rapture Allen & Unwin 2024 PB 310 pp $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).
BENJAMIN STEVENSON Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret.
Nov 4, 2024 · The author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone returns with another witty homage to the Golden Age of crime fiction.. There’s a whiff of unseriousness around some whodunnits. Many readers still think of the form as stuck in detective fiction’s Golden Age with their Cluedo-style country house tropes and tendency to …
RODNEY HALL Vortex. Reviewed by Paul Anderson
Nov 11, 2024 · Rodney Hall has won the Miles Franklin Award twice (Just Relations, The Grisly Wife); his new novel is a panoramic alternative history of the twentieth century.Queen Elizabeth II visited Brisbane on 9 March 1954 as part of her longest-ever Commonwealth tour.A fictional version of this royal visit provides a backdrop to the closing chapters of Vortex, but the novel is not really about this or ...
JOHN HUGHES The Dogs. Reviewed by Paul Anderson
Oct 5, 2024 · John Hughes The Dogs Upswell 2021 PB 270pp $27.99. Paul Anderson is an editor and volunteer with Dirt Lane Press. He was one of the editorial committee for the 2020 UTS writers’ anthology Empty Sky published by Brio Books. You can buy The Dogs from Abbey’s at a 10% discount by quoting the promotion code NEWTOWNREVIEW here or you can buy it ...
GREGORY DAY The Bell of the World. Reviewed by Paul Anderson
Gregory Day’s new novel explores the sublime through the life of a young woman in his beloved Otways. In the essay ‘Otway Taenarum’ in his previous book, Words are Eagles (2022), Day recounts how, at a formative age, he looked for ‘imaginative texts intentionally set in my hyper-local geography’ – the Eastern Otways region of southwest Victoria – and …
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