Barry Diller has worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment in a career spanning Paramount, Fox and now his own ...

Lynne Olson documents how, within the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, the women of the French Resistance continued to ...

The new novel from the author of Dyschronia and The Airways is climate fiction focussed on human adaptability.

Sarah Gilbert’s account of this religious order offers a rare insight into the women who chose to separate themselves from ...

The lyrical second novel from the author of The Burial criss-crosses through time following one girl’s parallel lives. Bird is the pensive, defiant 14-year-old protagonist of Courtney Collins’ new ...

Warning: reading this book can get you down if you are a creative in Australia trying to establish or maintain a career. Justin Heazlewood’s brilliant Funemployed is not all happiness and light. But ...

This debut is a sharp plunge into dark water. Bad things happen in Tasmania: from Marcus Clarke to Richard Flanagan and Carmel Bird, our novelists have been delivering stories inspired by the island’s ...

My Heart is a Little Wild Thing, Nigel Featherstone's second novel, is a story of masculinity and modern Australia.

The Newtown Review of Books was established in March 2012 by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell as an independent site for book reviews.

In his debut collection Born into This, Adam Thompson's vivid stories encompass resistance, revenge, and hard truths.

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 ...