by NRB | 21 Jan 2015 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Suzie Elovalis from WA! Kirsty Murray The Year it all Ended For 17-year-old Tiney everything is about to change as the bells toll for Armistice Day, 1918. With the end of the war and the beginning of the...
by NRB | 14 Jan 2015 | Giveaways |
This competition is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Colleen Burke from Newtown! Christos Tsiolkas Merciless Gods The first collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of The Slap and Barracuda. ‘… while Merciless Gods seethes with...
by NRB | 7 Jan 2015 | Giveaways |
This competition is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Michelle Hostrup from Redfern! Sheila Hancock Miss Carter’s War Actor Sheila Hancock’s debut novel opens in 1948: young Marguerite Carter has survived a terrifying war, and becomes one of the...
by NRB | 5 Jan 2015 | Giveaways |
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Regan Stevenson from Qld. Arundhati Roy Capitalism: A Ghost Story A searing collection of essays analysing the dark side of Indian democracy from the Booker-winning author of The God of Small Things. Courtesy...
by NRB | 1 Jan 2015 | Giveaways |
2014 saw an interesting year for Australian literature – an Australian again winning the Man Booker Prize, plenty of controversy over the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and many great new books published. Test your own memory of the past year here. QUESTIONS...
by NRB | 22 Dec 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw has now closed. Congratulations to our winner, David Hatherly, from the ACT! And happy holidays to everyone. Richard Powers Orfeo A 70-year-old avant-garde composer comes to the attention of Homeland Security through his experiments with microbiology and...
by NRB | 17 Dec 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is closed. Congratulations to the winner, Peter Freeman from Moruya. Griffith Review 46 Forgotten Stories: The Novella Project II A compelling collection of new fiction from Cate Kennedy, John Kinsella, Emma Hardman, Megan McGrath, Masako Fukui...
by NRB | 15 Dec 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Timothy Cootes! The Paris Review 208 This issue of the iconic literary magazine includes fiction from Zadie Smith, Ben Lerner and Rachel Cusk; poetry from Frederick Seidel and John Ashbery; and interviews with...
by NRB | 15 Oct 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Michelle Vamvas from Victoria! Robin de Crespigny The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi Known as ‘the Oskar Schindler of Asia’, this is one man’s epic story of trying to find a...
by NRB | 8 Oct 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Kim Peterson from Glenorie. David Leavitt The Two Hotel Francforts Two couples meet while awaiting safe passage back to America from Lisbon in 1940, and their lives begin both to intertwine and to unravel...
by NRB | 1 Oct 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Denise Young from Thirroul. Kelly Gardiner Goddess Set in Versailles at the court of the Sun King in the 1600s and based on the true story of the woman known as La Maupin: mistress, adventurer, runaway, prisoner,...
by NRB | 24 Sep 2014 | Giveaways |
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to our winner – Colleen Phillips from WA. Michael Cunningham The Snow Queen The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he...
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