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NRB Home - Newtown Review of Books. AMITAV GHOSH Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s hidden histories. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck. Award-winning novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to China. In researching his Ibis Trilogy novels – Sea of Poppies (2008), River of ...
RODNEY HALL Vortex. Reviewed by Paul Anderson
1 day ago · 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 …
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Tim Winton’s new novel dives into a post-climate-change world where violence seems the only solution. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal work The Road.
TIM WINTON Juice. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Tim Winton’s new novel dives into a post-climate-change world where violence seems the only solution. The opening of Tim Winton’s new novel Juice cannot help but put readers in mind of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal work The Road. A man, possibly an ex-soldier, and a young girl travel in a vehicle across a blasted future landscape:
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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
ADRIAN HYLAND The Wiregrass. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm
In Adrian Hyland’s latest crime novel, Jesse Redpath is back, stationed in a new town during a time of stormy weather. The much anticipated follow-up to Canticle Creek, The Wiregrass is set in the temperate rainforest area of Victoria in the fictional town of Satellite. Jesse Redpath is a cop, recently transferred from the Northern Territory to a new job in the town after the events of ...