Cirrus@Austlit

'Adam Thompson’s vivid stories encompass resistance, revenge, and hard truths.'

'Evie Wyld won the Miles Franklin Award for her last novel, All the Birds, Singing. Her latest, set on the coast of Scotland, contains both beauty and violence.' 

'Award-winning biographer Jacqueline Kent has written books about Beatrice Davis, Hephzibah Menuhin and Julia Gillard, but here she tells a much more personal story of her relationship with the writer Kenneth Cook. '

'Peter Corris, the ‘Godfather of Australian crime fiction’, died in his sleep on 30 August 2018. His Godfather columns have been part of the Newtown Review of Books from the beginning, and we feel his loss keenly.' 

'A Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline exists on the plane of memories, where grief can enlarge small events and erase larger ones.'

For the first time in NRB’s history, Jean and Linda both have the same title on their books-of-the-year lists. What could it be? Read on to find out …

'With irresistible freshness and sympathy Hannah Kent renders a world that is both recognisable and eerily strange.  '