5 Weeks of Christmas Giveaway #4

Looking for something to ease the pain of all those office Christmas parties? Refresh your festive spirit and go in the draw to win this bundle of four terrific titles. Just email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with CHRISTMAS #4 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 6 December 2016. We cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, so Australian residents only, please. Kristel Thornell On the Blue Train What did happen to Agatha Christie during her mysterious 11-day disappearance just as she was on the cusp of fame? A novel of creativity and grief from the award-winning author of Night Street. Courtesy of Allen & Unwin       Matti Friedman Pumpkinflowers In an unnamed war in the late 1990s, the Pumpkin was a remote hilltop in Lebanon; ‘flowers’ was the military code for casualties. Part memoir, part reportage, part elegy for lost youth, this powerful narrative captures the birth of today’s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a 21st-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor. Courtesy of NewSouth     Gerald Murnane Something for the Pain Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. As a boy, Gerald Murnane became obsessed with horse racing. He discovered in the races more than he could find in religion or philosophy: they were the gateway to the imagination. A memoir for lovers of literature and of the turf. ‘An enthralling key to Murnane’s world.’ – Bernard Whimpress, NRB. Courtesy of Text Publishing       Andrew Gross The One Man Auschwitz, 1944. To the guards Alfred Mendl is just another prisoner. But he holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. US intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum is about to risk his life to rescue him from a place no one can break into – or out of. ‘A must-read for lovers of fast, can’t-put-it-down thrillers.’ – Lee Child Courtesy of Pan Macmillan     Remember, to enter, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with CHRISTMAS #4 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 6 December 2016.

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