Because It’s Thursday giveaway
It’s almost Friday so it’s almost the weekend, isn’t it? So here is a special bundle of books to start the weekend early. To go in the draw to win all four of these new titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Thursday’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm tomorrow, Friday 4 October 2019. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Kate Forsyth The Blue Rose
The new novel from the bestselling author of Bitter Greens. Through the love story of French aristocrat Vivian, who becomes a maid-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, and Welsh gardener David, the novel explores revolutionary France and the British Embassy expedition to China, where David hears the story of ‘The Blue Rose’, a Chinese fable of impossible love …
Corey White The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory: a memoir
Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, he became a target for cruelty in foster homes. A scholarship to a prestigious boarding school lifted him out of foster care and awakened a love of learning, but this was soon overwhelmed by depression and drug addiction. Now described as ‘one of Australia’s brightest young comedians’, Corey White has produced a memoir of trauma and survival.
Peter Goldsworthy Minotaur
The acclaimed poet and novelist (Maestro et al) turns to crime fiction. A detective blinded on the job, now battling for compensation, faces a new and dangerous challenge when the man who shot him breaks out of jail to finish the job. ‘Captures with dizzying intensity the most compelling aspects of literary fiction and detective noir with wit, originality, and sensuality.’ – Susanna Moore, author of In the Cut.
Rob Hart The Warehouse
NRB’s reviewer Robert Goodman said: ‘Consumerism and the American Dream are in the firing line in Rob Hart’s debut novel The Warehouse. David Eggers mashed Google, Microsoft and Apple in The Circle. Hart does something similar for Amazon and other online shops with more success. And it is not a huge leap for readers to imagine a single provider taking over delivery of everything, giving people the option of never having to leave their homes.’ You can read the full review here.
All four titles courtesy of Penguin Random House
Remember, to go in the draw to win these four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Thursday’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Friday 4 October 2019.
