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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 2h

Just hours left to go in the draw to win our third and final spring #bookgiveaway ... Don't miss out !

Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Australian #BookGiveaway fans -- it's our 3rd and final spring giveaway, and you could win books by Ashley Kalagian Blunt, @roffwrites.bsky.social, Michael Adams and Amy Lovat. Be quick - entries close midnight TONIGHT Thurs 9 Oct 2025.
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 7h

Congratulations to Rosemary, who has won this fabulous bundle of books in the second of our Spring Giveaways.

Our third and final giveaway is on today and you can find out all about it here:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Australian #BookGiveaway fans -- it's our 3rd and final spring giveaway, and you could win books by Ashley Kalagian Blunt, @roffwrites.bsky.social, Michael Adams and Amy Lovat. Be quick - entries close midnight TONIGHT Thurs 9 Oct 2025.
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss out! You've got till midnight tonight, Wednesday 8 October, to get your entry in to win this great swag of books in our second Spring Giveaway.
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Attn Australian book fans! Our 2nd spring giveaway is now on, and you could win this fab bundle of books by Samantha Byres, Murray Middleton, Gretchen Shirm, & Katharine Pollock. Entries close midnight TONIGHT Wed 8 Oct 2025.
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Inez, who has won this fabulous bundle of books in the first of our Spring Giveaways yesterday.

There's a second giveaway today for another great bunch of books and you can find out all about it here: newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...

#BookGIveaways
#BookSky 💙 📚

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Attn Australian book fans! Our 2nd spring giveaway is now on, and you could win this fab bundle of books by Samantha Byres, Murray Middleton, Gretchen Shirm, & Katharine Pollock. Entries close midnight TONIGHT Wed 8 Oct 2025.
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...
#BookGIveaway
#BookSky 💙 📚

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 1d

A joyous Susan Wyndham last night at the launch of her magnificent biography Elizabeth Harrower: The Woman in the Watch Tower. A wonderful evening celebrating the book, its subject and its author.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 2d

There's still time to get your entry in to win this great swag of books – entries close midnight tonight, Tuesday 7 October 2025.

Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Attn Australian #BookSky: our 2025 spring giveaway is on! Win a great bundle of books by Laura McCluskey, Antigone Kefala, Grant Dooley and William Lane. Be quick - entries close midnight TONIGHT Tues 7 Oct 2025.
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...
#BookGiveaway
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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Attn Australian #BookSky: our 2025 spring giveaway is on! Win a great bundle of books by Laura McCluskey, Antigone Kefala, Grant Dooley and William Lane. Be quick - entries close midnight TONIGHT Tues 7 Oct 2025.
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/2025-spring-...
#BookGiveaway
@giramondobooks.bsky.social

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 6d

What reviewers will sacrifice for our readers ...

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI this week's reviews:
Ann Skea on Matthew Hooton's new novel Everything Lost, Everything Found
Michael Jongen on Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly: Selected writings of T-Bone Slim
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
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Image of covers of books Everything Lost, Everything Found by Matthew Hooton and The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 7d

"especially illuminating on early 20th-century American labour politics, and ..the clear parallels with the political climate today."
Michael Jongen reviews Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre (eds) The Popular Wobbly:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/owen-clayton...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
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Image of cover of book The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre, reviewed by Michael Jongen in the Newtown Review of Books.

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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 9d

Today's review is of the hilarious and hectic Everyone In This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson

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A review in which I freely admit it'll be another couple of readings before I get all the clues in a straight line. Love this series.

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#AusCrime

The book cover for Everyone In This Bank is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson is a white background with a greyed out circling dotted line joining the words of the title:

Everyone - grey with the top half of the o the eye mask and beanie of a bank robber
in This - slightly angled in grey again
Bank - graduated golden yellow with the top area of the capital A in the form of a flame
Is A - slightly angled in grey again with the S in the shape of a dollar sign
Thief - Grey capital letters with the F slightly out of line as if being picked up by the bright green parrot with a red billed sitting on the edge of a blacked out "gunshot" hole.

The Author's name is at the top of the book directly under the line 'Over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide' and the tagline at the bottom 'Ten Suspects. Ten Heists. A Mystery only Ernest Cunningham can solve'

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 9d

"beautifully written ... Matthew Hooton brings the jungle and Jack’s experience of it to life ... a remarkable book"
Ann Skea reviews Matthew Hooton's novel Everything Lost, Everything Found:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/matthew-hoot...
@matthooton.bsky.social
#Fordlandia
#HistFic
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Image of cover of book Everything Lost, Everything Found by Matthew Hooton, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 13d

ICYMI this week's reviews - two very different novels:
Amelia Dudley on KA Linde's new fantasy The Robin on the Oak Throne
Robert Goodman on Ian McEwan's new speculative fiction What We Can Know
Find them both at newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
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Image of covers of books The Robin on the Oak Throne by KA Linde and What We Can Know by Ian McEwan.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 14d

"layered, effortlessly erudite and deeply complex. McEwan considers how our world might look from the future, but in doing so reveals how he sees it now."
Robert Goodman reviews Ian McEwan's latest novel What We Can Know:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/ian-mcewan-w...
#Fiction
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Image of cover of book What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, reviewed by Robert Goodman in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 16d

"a fitting love letter to Irish folklore – Linde takes a little bit of that magic and very much makes it her own."
Amelia Dudley reviews The Robin on the Oak Throne, Book 2 of KA Linde's new fantasy series:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/ka-linde-the...
@torbooksuk.bsky.social
#SFF
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Image of cover of book The Robin on the Oak Throne by KA Linde, reviewed by Amelia Dudley in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 20d

ICYMI this week's reviews:
Robert Goodman on RF Kuang's new novel Katabasis
Braham Dabscheck on Tracey Lee Holmes' memoir The Eye of the Dragonfly
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
#BookReviews
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Image of covers of books Katabasis by RF Kuang and The Eye of the Dragonfly by Tracey Lee Holmes.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 21d

"a no-holds-barred account not only of major sporting events of recent decades but also a glimpse behind the scenes of what is involved in reporting these events."
Braham Dabscheck reviews Tracey Lee Holmes' The Eye of the Dragonfly
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/tracey-lee-h...
#Memoir
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Image of cover of book The Eye of the Dragonfly by Tracey Lee Holmes, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 23d

"Kuang returns to dark academic fantasy, but is still very much in the satirical mode of Yellowface ... and delivers something fresh, fun and thought-provoking."
Robert Goodman reviews RF Kuang's new novel Katabasis:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/rf-kuang-kat...
#RFKuang
#DarkAcademia
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Image of cover of book Katabasis by RF Kuang, reviewed by Robert Goodman in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 25d

The Australian Political Book of the Year Award Shortlist for 2025:
• "Naku Dharuk: The Bark Petitions"
by Clare Wright
• "The Chairman's Lounge"
by Joe Aston
• "Nuked" by Andrew Fowler
• "Mean Streak" by Rick Morton
#IndigenousHistory #Qantas #AUKUS #Robodebt #auspol #BookSky

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · 28d

"Of course the hare wins her heart, and she writes beautifully about it, so the reader, too, is enchanted by it."
Ann Skea reviews Chloe Dalton's memoir Raising Hare:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/chloe-dalton...
#hares
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Image of cover of book Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Scalmer demonstrates how changes in hours occur in a piecemeal manner, involving long and arduous struggles mounted on different fronts."
Braham Dabscheck reviews Sean Scalmer's A Fair Day's Work newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/sean-scalmer...
#IndustrialRelations
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@mupublishing.bsky.social

Image of cover of book A Fair Day’s Work by Sean Scalmer, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.

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Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social · Sep 5

ICYMI this week's reviews:
Ann Skea on Laura Elvery's debut novel Nightingale
Tom Kelly on Michael Adams' biography of Kevin John Simmonds, They'll Never Hold Me
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au
#AustralianAuthors
#BookReviews
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Image of covers of books Nightingale by Laura Elvery and They’ll Never Hold Me by Michael Adams.