Don’t miss out! This is the third and final instalment of our series of spring giveaways.
To win all four of these titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight TONIGHT, Thursday 9 October 2025.
As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Ashley Kalagian Blunt Cold Truth
Set amid the ferocious cold of a Canadian winter, Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s thriller continues her exploration of the threats of life online. Reviewer Karen Chisholm wrote: ‘The sense of threat and physical pain that the weather brings with it is nothing compared to the psychological pain that Harlow experiences when she finally realises that it’s the things the family has tried to keep hidden, the unspoken resentments and poor decisions, that have led to the situation they now find themselves in.’
Courtesy of Ultimo Press
Andrew Roff Here Are My Demands
‘If space-econ isn’t a genre already, it just got invented.’ – Jennifer Mills
In a near-future Australia, Maggie Garewal works on policy for a newly installed government, desperate to ensure real change to help the millions stricken jobless by automation. But in a world of augmented reality blending truth, illusion and misdirection, Maggie is confronted with impossible decisions about just what kind of future she wants.
Courtesy of Wakefield Press
Michael Adams They’ll Never Hold Me
Reviewer Tom Kelly wrote: ‘In 1959 most people in Australia would have known the names Simmonds and Newcombe. They were the two prisoners who broke out of Long Bay Gaol and eluded an enormous police search over five weeks. This excellent book is a biography of one of those escapees: Kevin Simmonds … [It] is more than just a well-written true crime thriller. It educates readers about the terrible details of one of the most disgracefully sordid episodes in government-sanctioned criminality in this nation’s history.’
Courtesy of Affirm Press
Amy Lovat Big Feelings
An anti-romantic comedy from the author of Mistakes and Other Lovers. Sadie Thomas is obsessed with love stories, and whether hers stacks up. Her parents’ story is what rom-com dreams are made of. But no one has offered the Happily-Ever-After that Sadie is searching for. Hard truths will be uncovered and family secrets revealed as Sadie tries to figure out how it all went so wrong.
‘Funny, messy, clever.’ – Kate Mildenhall
Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Remember, to go in the draw to win all four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight TONIGHT, Thursday 9 October 2025.
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