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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... May 2020 of The Newtown Review of Books est. 2012- The Newtown Review of Books
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sky Swimming : Extract, Sylvia Martin , extract novel
Mammoth : Extract, Chris Flynn , extract novel
Arnold Zable : The Watermill, Suzanne Marks , single work review
— Review of The Watermill Arnold Zable , 2020 selected work short story ;

'Arnold Zable finds resilience and inspiration among the survivors of extraordinary suffering.'

The Animals in That Country : Extract, Laura Jean McKay , extract novel

'How could Laura Jean McKay know that her novel about a pandemic would be published during an actual pandemic? Unlike Covid, however, the pandemic in her debut novel gives sufferers bright pink eyes and an ability to understand the language of animals.

'Jean Bennett is a guide at an outback wildlife park and devoted grandmother to six-year-old Kimberley. Her ex, Graham, and  son, Lee, are long gone, and she gets through each day with nips from a hipflask. She’s an entertaining, if unconventional guide at the park, possibly tolerated because Angela, the park’s manager, is Kimberley’s mum. But Jean genuinely loves the animals, and on Kimberley’s regular sleepovers, the two of them plan their own animal sanctuary: ‘no animal turned away’.

'When the novel opens, the pandemic is just ‘that superflu’ afflicting people down south. There are stories of zoos being broken into and animals being released, but to Jean and the other staff at the park, it all feels a long way away.

'In this extract, anxiety about the virus is increasing and many of the Park’s staff have left. Schools have closed, and Jean and Kimberley have been doing shifts feeding the animals.' (Summary)

Malcolm Turnbull : A Bigger Picture, James McKenzie Watson , single work review
— Review of A Bigger Picture : An Autobiography Malcolm Turnbull , 2020 single work autobiography ;

'Malcom Turnbull’s expansive autobiography, A Bigger Picture, is as much a rebuttal of critics of his prime ministership as it is a personal memoir.'

Extract : Sheerwater, Leah Swann , extract novel

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