5 Weeks of Christmas Giveaway #1

Christmas? Already? Yes, it’s time to get festive with the first of our five NRB Christmas giveaway bundles. To go in the draw, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with CHRISTMAS #1 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 15 November 2016.  Please note we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, so Australian residents only.   Sean Rabin Wood Green Michael, an aspiring writer, takes a job as secretary to his literary hero Lucian Clarke, a reclusive novelist who lives just outside Hobart. While Michael believes he is making a new life for himself in the little town of Wood Green, Lucian has other plans … Courtesy of Giramondo     Jeanette Winterson The Gap of Time William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale retold by the author of The Passion and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. A money man struggles with the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife; is their new baby his? Seventeen years later, a boy and a girl are falling in love … However far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found. Courtesy of Penguin Random House     Cosentino Anything is Possible Cosentino is Australia’s premier illusionist and escapologist. The LA Times has said he ‘mirrors the legendary Harry Houdini’. ‘This is not just a celebrity memoir and it is more than a book about magic. It is a book about self-belief.’ — Bookseller & Publisher Courtesy of HarperCollins     Tig Notaro I’m Just A Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany One of America’s most original comedic voices delivers a darkly funny, wryly observed and emotionally raw memoir. In the span of four months in 2012, Tig was hospitalised with an intestinal disease, her relationship broke up, her mother died, and she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In response to this barrage, Tig took her grief onstage, and the ensuing video went viral. Courtesy of Bluebird Books for Life   Remember, to enter email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with CHRISTMAS #1 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 15 November 2016.

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