10TH BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY #1
Celebrate with us!
It’s hard to believe ten years have passed since we started the Newtown Review of Books back in 2012, but here we are, and huge thanks to all our wonderful contributors and supporters and to you, our readers. We wouldn’t exist without you.
Now, it wouldn’t be an NRB birthday without a giveaway, and we’ve got some truly special new books to give away this week.
To go into the draw to win all four of these books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Birthday 1′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 21 March 2022. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Jane Caro The Mother
The brand new novel from Walkley Award-winning journalist and social commentator Jane Caro.
Miriam Duffy is a respectable North Shore real estate agent and devoted mother and grandmother. But when her daughter Ally moves to the country and gradually withdraws, Miriam begins to question whether all is well with Ally and her marriage. As the situation escalates and the law proves incapable of protecting Ally and her children, Miriam is faced with an unthinkable decision.
‘A timely, tense and important story that takes you to the heart of a toxic relationship, fighting to get free.’ – Michael Robotham
Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Fiona Robertson If You’re Happy
Winner of the Glendower Award for an Emerging Writer at the Queensland Literary Awards.
This debut collection of short stories explores people at moments of change or crisis as they struggle to repair fractures in their lives and search for something close to happiness.
‘Robertson evokes disparate characters, their yearning hearts always on the cusp of something they can’t quite name … these short sharp pieces set across wide-ranging locales create pockets of surprise and solace in unexpected places.’ – Cate Kennedy
Courtesy of UQP
Josh Kemp Banjawarn
Winner of the Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. The protagonist of Josh Kemp’s novel is Garreth Hoyle, a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Along the way he discovers an abandoned 10-year-old girl, but his attempt to return her to her estranged father turns into the road trip from hell.
‘An impressive, propulsive debut laced with dark humour and a menacing undercurrent of violence that builds towards a brutal, vividly rendered conclusion.’ – The West Australian
Courtesy of UWA Publishing
Louise Erdrich The Sentence
The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Set in a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis, The Sentence is a ghost story, a tale of passion, marriage, and a woman’s relentless errors.
NRB’s reviewer Robert Goodman wrote: ‘There is plenty to love about The Sentence. First and foremost, a deep and abiding love of small bookstores and the people who work there … Erdrich chose not to ignore the real world but to explore how her characters respond to it, and in doing so she brings all of us who have experienced or witnessed the same events deeper into her story.’
Courtesy of Hachette Australia
Remember, to go in the draw to win these four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Birthday 1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 21 March 2022.
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