The celebrations continue!
On our tenth birthday we’re celebrating our wonderful readers with another opportunity to win a special bundle of books.
To go into the draw to win all four of these books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Birthday 2′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Wednesday 23 March 2022. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Omar Sakr Son of Sin
The first novel from award-winning poet Omar Sakr stretches across generations from Turkey to Lebanon to Western Sydney. Jamal Smith is a young queer Muslim man trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. But when every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal will find and test the limits of love.
‘I inhaled this novel; the story and the world and the language are exhilarating.’ – Christos Tsiolkas
Courtesy of Affirm Press
Al Campbell The Keepers
In this debut novel, Jay’s life is devoted to the care of her twin teenage sons, Frank and Teddy, who view the world as differently as it views them. With an absent husband and embroiled in an endless battle with social services, she nevertheless believes she is managing quite well – until Teddy starts to get sick and doctors refuse to listen, confounding everything Jay thought she knew about what lies ahead.
‘An extraordinary piece of writing, a constellation of love and pain opening up to the reader in a magical and terrifying way.’ – Annabel Crabbe
Courtesy of UQP Books
Iain McCalman Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A human-animal story of captivity, patriarchy and nature
On an expedition to East Africa in 1909, Delia Akeley, a 40-year-old American, captures a baby female monkey. This casual action unlocks Delia’s latent talents of research and observation, anticipating Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee writings.
‘Vividly written and impossible to put down … Iain McCalman rescues “Mickie” Akeley and her mercurial Vervet monkey “JT” from oblivion.’ – Mark McKenna
Courtesy of Upswell Publishing
Jessica Au Cold Enough for Snow
Winner of the Novel Prize. A young woman and her mother travel through Japan, visiting galleries and churches, eating in small cafes and restaurants and walking along the canals at night, on guard against the autumn rain and the prospect of snow. All the while they talk, but uncertainties abound. How much is spoken between them, how much is thought but unspoken?
‘So clear and calm and deep, I wished it would flow on forever.’ – Helen Garner
Courtesy of Giramondo
Remember, to go in the draw to win these four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Birthday 2’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Wednesday 23 March 2022.
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