Autumn 2018 Giveaway #1
It’s the equinox and autumn is here (even if it doesn’t much feel like it in Newtown at the moment) and we’ve got some fab reads for the season of mellow fruitfulness. To go in the draw to win all four books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Autumn 1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Thursday 22 March 2018. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Heather Morris The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Based on the true story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved.
‘Morris climbs into the dark miasma of war and emerges with an extraordinary tale of the power of love’ – Leah Kaminsky
‘Extraordinary – moving, confronting and uplifting … a story about the extremes of human behaviour’ – Graeme Simsion
Courtesy of Echo Publishing
Craig Sherborne Off the Record
The new novel from the author of The Amateur Science of Love and The Tree Palace (shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award). Callum Smith is a journalist of the old school and knows all the tricks of the tabloid trade. Desperate to impress his estranged wife, he quits his newspaper job to work for a new website covering crime. Will he win back his family? Or is comeuppance around the corner?
Courtesy of Text Publishing
Jim Crace The Melody
‘Inimitably excellent, Jim Crace stands on his own ground among living English novelists’ – The Independent
One night Alfred Busi, known for his music and his songs, is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids his larder. Busi is convinced that what attacked him was no animal, but a child, ‘innocent and wild’, and his words fan the flames of an old rumour about an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the town. Soon Busi and the town he loves will be altered irrevocably.
Courtesy of Picador
Stephen Orr Incredible Floridas
As Hitler’s war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home from London with his family to live a simple life in the suburbs. As the years pass, Roland learns that his son Hal is unable to control his behaviour; the boy becomes the destroyer of the family. Has Roland sacrificed his children for his art?
Courtesy of Wakefield Press
Remember, to go in the draw to win these four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with “Autumn 1” in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Thursday 22 March 2018.
