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 ...

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 ...

David Price’s history of Western Australia’s lock hospitals and the ‘treatments’ meted out to Aboriginal people is shocking and important. There are large areas of our nation’s history that ...

The second novel from Andrew Pippos draws inspiration from the epics of ancient Greece as its characters navigate a fraught world. Early in the story, George Desoulis reveals that his family came to ...