Peter Greste’s 2017 memoir The First Casualty has been reissued and retitled following the release of the film. It remains timely reading.

Jennifer Trevelyan’s debut novel is both a coming of age story and a mystery full of secrets set within a 1980s New Zealand ...

Set on the Australian coast, Suzanne Do’s first novel is both a murder mystery and a story of grief, family and connection.

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

Tim Winton’s new novel Juice dives into a post-climate-change world where violence seems the only solution.

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 ...

Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature in Australian author Alina Bellchambers’ debut fantasy.

Ghost Species, James Bradley’s terrifyingly relevant seventh novel, is On the Beach for a globally warmed generation.

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 ...

Chris Hammer’s second crime novel, Silver, features investigative journalist Martin Scarsdale, who was introduced to readers in Scrublands, where he met the beautiful Mandalay Blonde.

Charlotte McConaghy follows up her international bestseller The Last Migration with a story of wolves and the Scottish Highlands. When I was eight, Dad cut me open from throat to stomach. Such a ...

A new crime novel by Garry Disher is always exciting. In Sanctuary, he introduces a new protagonist: a female lone wolf.