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Jessica Stewart

@yourseconddraft

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Sep 1

Thank you for the opportunity to review Marshmallow, up now at

@NewtownBooks

. Victoria Hannan, author of Kokomo has written a moving novel about how grief gnaws at us, changes us.

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@NewtownBooks

· Sep 1

"Marshmallow’s themes are sombre but it is impossible not to see Hannan entreating us to run to love .. when life is short." Jessica Stewart reviews Victoria Hannan's new novel Marshmallow: https://buff.ly/3QWnWCQ @HachetteAus @yourseconddraft #ozlit #aww2022

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Sep 2

ICYMI this week's reviews: Braham Dabscheck on Beilharz & Supski (eds)The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre: https://buff.ly/3TnUhUE

@MUPublishing

#ozhist Jessica Stewart on Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow: https://buff.ly/3QWnWCQ

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@NewtownBooks

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Sep 1

"Marshmallow lays out the raw pain of grief and its weight .. Hannan’s gift for observation is present from the novel’s very first words." Jessica Stewart reviews Victoria Hannan's new novel Marshmallow: https://buff.ly/3QWnWCQ

@HachetteAus

@yourseconddraft

#fiction #ozlit

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Sep 1

Applications for the Heyman Mentorship Award, in partnership with

@HarperCollinsAU

, close September 20. If you know a writer from a background of socio-economic disadvantage, who might benefit from this opportunity, please share

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Sep 1

"Marshmallow’s themes are sombre but it is impossible not to see Hannan entreating us to run to love .. when life is short." Jessica Stewart reviews Victoria Hannan's new novel Marshmallow: https://buff.ly/3QWnWCQ

@HachetteAus

@yourseconddraft

#ozlit #aww2022

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Aug 30

"Stuart Macintyre’s individual contribution to history is of the highest order." Braham Dabscheck reviews Peter Beilharz & Sian Supski (eds) The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre. https://buff.ly/3TnUhUE

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Aug 30

"... Macintyre made an invaluable contribution to Australian history...The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre does him proud." Braham Dabscheck reviews Peter Beilharz & Sian Supski (eds) The Work of History: https://buff.ly/3TnUhUE

@MUPublishing

@sian1953

#ozhist

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 26

ICYMI this week's reviews: Robert Goodman on Jess Kidd's novel The Night Ship: https://buff.ly/3c9aY5o

@JessKiddHerself

@pilebythebed

Bernard Whimpress on Dennis Altman's God Save the Queen: The strange persistence of monarchies: https://buff.ly/3T5xVXU

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Larry the Librarian

@Michael_Jongen

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Aug 25

here's a thing I wrote abut Barbara Pym some time ago for

@NewtownBooks

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BARBARA PYM. An appreciation by Michael Jongen - The Newtown Review of Books

The revival of interest in Pym’s delightful comedies of manners is well-deserved. ‘Of course it’s all right for librarians to smell of drink.’ – Barbara Pym, Less Than Angels I came to Barbara Pym...

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Aug 25

"Every Australian governor-general since 1965 has been born here and performs all the roles of a constitutional head of state with greater powers than the Queen exercises in Britain."

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reviews Dennis Altman's God Save the Queen: https://buff.ly/3T5xVXU

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 25

"God Save the Queen is a book which deserves a wide readership ... It would benefit anyone who cares about how our country is governed."

@BWhimpress

reviews Dennis Altman's God Save the Queen: The strange persistence of monarchies: https://buff.ly/3T5xVXU

@scribepub

#monarchies

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Pile By The Bed

@pilebythebed

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Aug 23

Jess Kidd finds plenty of resonance between the lives of a girl on the Batavia and a boy sent to live on the lonely islands where it ran aground over three hundred years earlier in The Night Ship. My review in

@NewtownBooks

: https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/jess-kidd-the-night-ship-reviewed-by-robert-goodman/…

@JessKiddHerself

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JESS KIDD The Night Ship. Reviewed by Robert Goodman - The Newtown Review of Books

The latest novel from the author of The Hoarder reimagines the tragedy and legacy of the Batavia. In The Night Ship, Jess Kidd brings together two disparate stories joined by location but separated...

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 23

"Plenty of books have been written about the Batavia...There has not been as much written about the Abrolhos Islands... In The Night Ship Jess Kidd connects these two stories across hundreds of years."

@pilebythebed

reviews

@JessKiddHerself

The Night Ship https://buff.ly/3c9aY5o

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 23

"The Night Ship provides new insights into both that benighted voyage and the isolated islands on which the survivors found themselves." Robert Goodman reviews

@JessKiddHerself

's new novel The Night Ship: https://buff.ly/3c9aY5o

@HoZ_Books

@pilebythebed

#TheBatavia #Albrolhos

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Aug 19

ICYMI this week's reviews: Robert Goodman on

@VikkiPetraitis

debut #crimefiction The Unbelieved: https://buff.ly/3C0Dj8E

@AllenAndUnwin

@pilebythebed

#prizewinner Ann Skea on

@KimKellyAuthor

's novel The Rat Catcher: https://buff.ly/3C8DPl3

@BrioPublishing

#histfic #ozhist

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 18

"Kim Kelly’s Patrick.. has a voice and personality that make him a very likeable character.. Yet, light-hearted as it mostly is, Patrick’s accounts of the Sydney plague are based on fact" Ann Skea reviews

@KimKellyAuthor

's The Rat Catcher https://buff.ly/3C8DPl3

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Kim Kelly

@KimKellyAuthor

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Aug 18

A lovely review of Ratty - from Ann Skea! Thank you

@NewtownBooks

for all you do for Aus writing.

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@NewtownBooks

· Aug 18

"Patrick is a fine Irish storyteller, and his description of... the anti-plague inoculations he and his fellow applicants are given, are colourful, opinionated and funny." Ann Skea reviews @KimKellyAuthor's novel The Rat Catcher: https://buff.ly/3C8DPl3 @BrioPublishing #histfic

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 18

"Patrick is a fine Irish storyteller, and his description of... the anti-plague inoculations he and his fellow applicants are given, are colourful, opinionated and funny." Ann Skea reviews

@KimKellyAuthor

's novel The Rat Catcher: https://buff.ly/3C8DPl3

@BrioPublishing

#histfic

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 16

".. this is a rattling good crime story .. Antigone Pollard herself is a great main character. ... she takes no crap and has no fear." Robert Goodman reviews

@VikkiPetraitis

's debut #crimefiction, The Unbelieved: https://buff.ly/3C0Dj8E

@AllenAndUnwin

@pilebythebed

#prizewinner

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 16

"Petraitis has used her knowledge, experience and passion to deliver a page-turning crime novel that also has something to say." Robert Goodman reviews

@VikkiPetraitis

's debut #crimefiction The Unbelieved: https://buff.ly/3C0Dj8E

@AllenAndUnwin

@pilebythebed

#prizewinner

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 14

Writers: are you looking for #feedback on your ms of fiction or memoir? Consider joining NRB's

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Melbourne University Publishing

@MUPublishing

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Aug 12

'Nathan Hobby explores the life of one of Australia’s most controversial writers.' Read the full review of Nathan Hobby's (

@NathanHobby

) THE RED WITCH in The Newtown Review of Books (

@NewtownBooks

):

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NATHAN HOBBY The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan -...

Nathan Hobby's biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard explores the life of one of Australia's most controversial writers.

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 12

ICYMI this week's reviews: Ann Skea on DBC Pierre's Big Snake Little Snake: An inquiry into risk: https://buff.ly/3PaziRY

@ProfileBooks

#risk #philosophy Amelia Dudley on

@AstridScholte

's new #novel League of Liars: https://buff.ly/3zLIZR1

@AllenAndUnwin

#SFF #bookreviews

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 11

"Watching Cayder’s character develop from revering Vardean as an institution that punishes the wicked to being able to empathise .. is an enjoyable facet of this engaging story." Amelia Dudley reviews

@AstridScholte

's novel League of Liars: https://buff.ly/3zLIZR1

@AllenAndUnwin

newtownreviewofbooks.com.au

ASTRID SCHOLTE League of Liars. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley - The Newtown Review of Books

Melbourne-based Astrid Scholte is an international bestseller; her new novel pits its characters against injustice.

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 11

"Astrid Scholte.. displays her talent for creative world-building and intricate plots in her latest novel, League of Liars ..[her] sense of humour is another thing to appreciate" Amelia Dudley reviews

@AstridScholte

's League of Liars: https://buff.ly/3zLIZR1

@AllenAndUnwin

#SFF

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Jo Dyer

@instanterudite

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Aug 10

Congratulations to

@dettebrennan

on her win in

@statelibrarynsw

’s #NatBioAward! A wonderful result for a wonderful book by a wonderful human.

sl.nsw.gov.au

National Biography Award | State Library of NSW

The National Biography Award, supported by the State Library of NSW Foundation, celebrates excellence in biography, autobiography and memoir writing.

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 9

#DBCPierre's new book asks if "luck is a question of colliding, and possibly predictable, cascades of linked events". Can we influence their outcome? Ann Skea reviews DBC Pierre's Big Snake Little Snake: An inquiry into risk: https://buff.ly/3PaziRY

@AllenAndUnwin

@ProfileBooks

NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 9

"... DBC has a wonderful facility for using events from his own vivid life to shape his inquiry.... and he is often very funny." Ann Skea reviews #Bookerwinner DBC Pierre's Big Snake Little Snake: An inquiry into risk: https://buff.ly/3PaziRY

@AllenAndUnwin

@ProfileBooks

#risk

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Dallas Robertson

@dallastexjr

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Aug 6

Replying to

@NewtownBooks

@Michael_Jongen

and 3 others

Excellent review!

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Janet Somerville

@janetsomerville

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Aug 4

What a life. What an obit.

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The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

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Aug 5

ICYMI this week's reviews:

@Michael_Jongen

on Holden Sheppard's new novel The Brink: https://buff.ly/3SbjEbJ @text_publshing

@V8Sheppard

Kathy Gollan on

@NathanHobby

's #biography of writer Katharine Susannah Prichard, The Red Witch: https://buff.ly/3bm5ZOf

@MUPublishing

#KSP

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 4

"Nathan Hobby’s #biography adroitly navigates the contradictions in KSP’s life, painting a picture of a talented, compassionate yet inflexible woman" Kathy Gollan reviews

@NathanHobby

's The Red Witch https://buff.ly/3bm5ZOf

@miegunyahpress

@MUPublishing

#KatharineSusannahPrichard

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Kate Evans

@HistoryGirlKate

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Aug 4

Really terrific review of

@NathanHobby

biography of Katherine Susannah Prichard #TheRedWitch by Kathy Gollan

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@NewtownBooks

· Aug 4

"Nathan Hobby has comprehensively captured the many facets of this complicated and gifted woman and the turbulent times in which she lived." Kathy Gollan reviews @NathanHobby's The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard: https://buff.ly/3bm5ZOf @MUPublishing #KSP

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 4

"Nathan Hobby has comprehensively captured the many facets of this complicated and gifted woman and the turbulent times in which she lived." Kathy Gollan reviews

@NathanHobby

's The Red Witch: A biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard: https://buff.ly/3bm5ZOf

@MUPublishing

#KSP

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Jessica Stewart

@yourseconddraft

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Aug 3

Replying to

@mandybeaumont

@QldLitAwards

and

@HachetteAus

Congratulations,

@mandybeaumont

! It is a mighty book! I reviewed it for

@NewtownBooks

here, along with

@AmyRemeikis

' compelling essay, On reckoning.

newtownreviewofbooks.com.au

MANDY BEAUMONT The Furies and AMY REMEIKIS On Reckoning. Reviewed by Jessica Stewart - The Newtown...

Mandy Beaumont's debut novel The Furies and Amy Remeikis's essay On Reckoning share powerful themes of trauma and its aftermath.

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Text YA & Kids

@textpubYA

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Aug 2

"Like Invisible Boys, [THE BRINK] is frank, fresh and unapologetic and this is Sheppard’s greatest gift as a writer." 🙌🙌🙌

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NewtownReviewofBooks

@NewtownBooks

· Aug 2

"There is so much to admire about this novel ... Mason, Leonardo and Kaiya are all well defined individuals struggling with the complexities of adulthood ..." @Michael_Jongen reviews Holden Sheppard's The Brink:. https://buff.ly/3SbjEbJ @text_publishing @V8Sheppard #fiction

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 2

"There is so much to admire about this novel ... Mason, Leonardo and Kaiya are all well defined individuals struggling with the complexities of adulthood ..."

@Michael_Jongen

reviews Holden Sheppard's The Brink:. https://buff.ly/3SbjEbJ

@text_publishing

@V8Sheppard

#fiction

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@NewtownBooks

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Aug 2

"..this is an earthy novel about sex and drugs and rock and roll... it is frank, fresh and unapologetic and this is Sheppard’s greatest gift as a writer."

@Michael_Jongen

reviews Holden Sheppard's 2nd novel The Brink: https://buff.ly/3SbjEbJ

@text_publishing

@V8Sheppard

#ozlit

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Linda Funnell

@LindaFunnell

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Jul 27

Writers: looking for feedback on your ms? Join me for Online Feedback: Manuscript Development with

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