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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
GERALDINE BROOKS Horse. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey
In unearthing the story of a 19th-century thoroughbred, Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks examines racism then and now. Geraldine Brooks takes on a mighty task in her latest novel, …
VIKKI PETRAITIS The Unbelieved. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Aug 16, 2022 · Vikki Petraitis The Unbelieved Allen and Unwin PB 384pp $32.99. Robert Goodman is an institutionalised public servant and obsessive reader, who won a science …
IAIN RYAN The Strip. Reviewed by Ben Ford Smith
There is a fine line between compelling complexity and bewilderment, and one of The Strip ’s strengths is that it provides just enough clarity to keep the reader ploughing through the chaos. …
ROSE TREMAIN Lily: A tale of revenge. Reviewed by Ann Skea
Underlying Lily’s story, however, but never spelled out, is Tremain’s own anger that historical ills, especially the mistreatment of children in institutions, still exist. Rose Tremain Lily: A tale of …