10TH BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY #3
Our third giveaway celebrating 10 years of NRB
In the final giveaway of this series to mark our 10th birthday we have a great swag of international titles for you to win.
To go in the draw to win all four books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Birthday 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight TONIGHT, Friday 25 March 2022. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Margaret Atwood Burning Questions
In this collection of over 50 essays and occasional pieces, double Booker Prize-winner Margaret Atwood plumbs the many and varied mysteries of our human universe. Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? What do zombies have to do wiht authoritarianism? From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom, from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, Atwood reports on what she finds.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Hanya Yanagihara To Paradise
This new novel from the author of A Little Life and The People in the Trees spans three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 New York, a young man from a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor in favour of an impoverished music teacher. In 1993 Manhattan a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood. And in 2093, in a totalitarian world riven by plagues, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearance.
Courtesy of Picador
Hélène Gaudy A World With No Shore
1897: Anna Charlier farewells her fiancé, Nils, as he sets off on an expedition to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. 1930: a walrus-hunting boat visits White Island, one of the last lands before the North Pole. The melting ice reveals bodies and the remains of a makeshift camp. In reimagining this great ninteenth-century adventure that was blown off course, Hélène Gaudy reflects on the human need to explore and ultimately shrink the world
Winner of the Prix Francois Billetdoux 2020, longlisted for the Prix Goncourt and shortlisted for the Prix Joseph Kessel; translated from the French by Stephanie Smee.
Courtesy of Black Inc.
Audrey Magee The Colony
The new novel from the author of the internationally acclaimed The Undertaking.
Mr Lloyd and Mr Masson have both arrived on the island for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place – one in his paintings, the other by capturing its speech, the language he hopes to preserve. But the inhabitants have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. As the soft summer days pass, the islanders question what they value and what they desire. As autumn beckons and the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning..
Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Remember, to go in the draw to win all four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Birthday 3’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight TONIGHT, Friday 25 March 2022.
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