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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 ...
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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.
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 …
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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Dec 19, 2023 · Reviewed by Michael Jongen. Michael Trant’s (2022) was an action-packed thriller that introduced Gabe Ahern as Australia’s answer to Jack Reacher. Set in the north-west of Western Australia, it was an exciting read with a complex plot, great characters and a huge kill rate. Gabe Ahern is back in ….
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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 …
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, Horse, covering events leading up to the American Civil War through the story of champion runner Lexington, and juxtaposing contemporary events, complete with the vague tremors of political correctness that ...