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WEBThe Newtown Review of Books - Sydney's original online review of books, established March 2012. MALCOLM KNOX The First Friend. Reviewed by Ann Skea. Posted on 12 Sep 2024 in Fiction | 0 comments. Malcolm Knox’s new novel satirises the brutal madness of the Soviet Union, focussing on Stalin’s notorious head of secret police, Beria.
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FERDIA LENNON Glorious Exploits. Reviewed by Ann Skea
WEB2 days ago · Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits Fig Tree / Penguin Books 2024 PB 288pp $32.99. Dr Ann Skea is a freelance reviewer, writer and an independent scholar of the work of Ted Hughes. She is author of Ted Hughes: The Poetic Quest (UNE 1994, and currently available for free download here). Her work is internationally published and her Ted Hughes ...
MALCOLM KNOX The First Friend. Reviewed by Ann Skea
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The First Friend is both terrifying and blackly funny. Knox satirises the absurdities of life in Stalinist Russia, but he also includes grim passages that demonstrate the horrors of life there, too. Beria, Stalin, Yezhov – all were monsters. The October 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent civil wars, mass collectivisation, famines ...
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WEBGAIL PARENT Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York; SARAH ROSE ETTER Ripe. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart. When Gail Parent published Sheila Levine in 1972 it wasn’t called a ‘sad girl novel’; in 2024 Sarah Rose Etter’s Ripe …
STEPH TISDELL The Skin I’m In. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey
WEB4 days ago · Comedian Steph Tisdell’s first novel tackles serious issues in this story of growing up in a First Nations family. Set in Brisbane, The Skin I’m In opens with Layla, the youngest daughter of a First Nations mother and a white father, getting ready for her last year of school. Layla is academically gifted and wants to go to university next year and work in an area that will make a ...
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WEBBETH SPENCER The Age of Fibs: extract. Award-winning author Beth Spencer ranges across popular culture, the environment, and the body in her new collection.
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WEBAug 6, 2024 · COLM TÓIBÍN Long Island. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey. The new novel from the author of The Magician and A Guest at the Feast continues the story of one of his most popular characters.
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WEBSTUART TURTON The Devil and the Dark Water. Reviewed by Ann Skea. The award-winning author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle returns with a dark and dangerous mystery set on the high seas.