Nicola Barker interrogates the nature of honesty, creativity and improvisation with sharp-eyed humour in her new novel.

Poison, mirror worlds, a life in danger and a seemingly impossible task – T Kingfisher’s latest fantasy has them all. And a ...

Richard Denniss provides a chilling analysis of the ploys our politicians use to govern in the interests of everyone but the public.

No casual tombstone tourist, Mariana Enriquez details her fascination with cemeteries, their histories and their famous ...

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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 ...

Ghost Species, James Bradley’s terrifyingly relevant seventh novel, is On the Beach for a globally warmed generation. Its proposed roadmap of where humankind’s false belief we’re in control will lead ...

Actor and Australian icon Bryan Brown brings his laconic style to his first full-length crime novel. The Drowning is set on the northern beaches of New South Wales in a small town that is mostly ...

Chloe Dalton’s memoir of raising an orphaned hare in the English countryside is both beautiful and unsentimental. Chloe Dalton never expected to raise a hare. In her professional life as a foreign ...

This latest offering of Australian rural noir contrasts urban and small-town sensibilities from the perspective of a child protection officer. Readers of Crows Nest will not be surprised to learn that ...