Lyn Dickens’s award-winning debut novel of an independent woman in colonial South Australia explores prejudice, power and ...

Set in a small Australian town dominated by a family of drug dealers, Stuart Everly-Wilson’s new novel is full of memorable ...

Alix E Harrow’s time-travelling new novel asks questions about our most cherished national myths and what might happen if ...

Human history has seen many civilisations rise and fall. Luke Kemp contemplates the fate of ours in Goliath's Curse.

Art historian Thomas Schlesser brings 52 artworks to life in this fable-like story of a grandfather discussing art with his granddaughter.

Claire North’s new novel might be science fiction, but the problems her characters face have many resonances with those of ...

Neika – scientist, surfer, and irresistible protagonist of A Catalogue of Love – attempts to classify emotions in Erin Hortle ...

Australian Keshe Chow's award-winning debut The Girl With No Reflection became an international bestseller. Her second does not disappoint.

Richard Denniss provides a chilling analysis of the ploys our politicians use to govern in the interests of everyone but the public. Public choice theory employs basic economic analysis to posit that ...

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 ...