Bonus autumn 2018 giveaway!
Yes, we’re going to squeeze one more fab giveaway into our autumn giveaway season. To go in the draw to win all four books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Autumn Bonus’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Friday 6 April 2018. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Eileen Myles Afterglow: A dog memoir
A playful and incisive investigation into the mostly mutually beneficial, sometimes reprehensible power dynamics between pet and pet owner through the lens of the author’s relationship with much-loved pit bull Rosie. It also reimagines Myles’s experience with alcoholism and recovery, celebrity and politics, intimacy and mourning, spirituality and family history. Eileen Myles is the author of more than 20 books including the novel Chelsea Girls and will be appearing at the Sydney Writers Festival on 4, 5 and 6 May 2018.
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Sally Hepworth The Family Next Door
The new novel from the author of the Secrets of Midwives. One day during an unprecedented Melbourne heatwave, a new resident arrives in suburban Pleasant Court. Isabelle is single and childless, when everyone else is married with kids. Her job is mysteriously vague. And she is very curious about her new neighbours. Too curious, some might say. It soon becomes clear that Isabelle’s choice of neighbourhood is no accident, and that her presence may bring even more secrets to light.
Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Willy Vlautin Don’t Skip Out on Me
Horace Hopper is a 21-year-old farm hand in Tonopah, Nevada, but he dreams of bigger things and leaves the farm to reinvent himself as the Mexican boxer Hector Hidalgo. Slowly, the possibility emerges that his dreams may not be simply delusions … (NB This edition comes with a CD.) ‘This is magnificent. Vlautin is now one of America’s great writers.’ — Roddy Doyle
Courtesy of Faber & Faber
Roger Rees No Turning Back
Young Australian anthropologist Louise Davitt embarks on field trip to Ethiopia following its disastrous famine in 1984-85. She meets Zeno, an Ethiopian doctor, and spends time living with the Hamar, a remote nomadic tribe. ‘A moving tale of cross-cultural endeavour dealing with problems that for millions of people are all too real. Rees’s knowledge of this complex world is evident; his compassion for the powerless shines through.’ — Cate Kennedy
Courtesy of Hybrid Publishers
Remember, to go in the draw to win all four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Autumn Bonus’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Friday 6 April 2018.
