Autumn 2015 Giveaway #3
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Kay Pietsch from the ACT! The Age of Magic Ben Okri A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village. From the author of the Booker Prize-winning The...
Autumn 2015 Giveaway #2
Win a great bundle of books to warm up your autumn. Simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with Autumn Giveaway #2 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Thursday 16 April 2015. Please note we cannot afford to...
Autumn 2015 Giveaway #1
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Mary Maxwell. A Short History of Stupid: the decline of reason and why public debate makes us want to scream Bernard Keane & Helen Razer How did everything get so dumb? Keane’s & Razer’s...
Summer Reading Giveaway #6
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to our winner – B Culloty from Queensland! Craig Davidson Cataract City Childhood friends grow up in Niagara Falls, known as Cataract City, and both dream of escape. They find it on different sides of the law....
Summer Reading Giveaway #5
This draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Jenny Snell from Greigs Flat, NSW. Eds Patrick West and Om Prakesh Dwivedi The World to Come This collection of SF stories from all over the world is ‘… an incredibly diverse exploration of the themes...
Summer Reading Giveaway #4
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...
Summer Reading Giveaway #3
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...
Summer Reading Giveaway #2
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...
Summer Reading Giveaway #1
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...New Year’s Day quiz: 2014 in books
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...
Christmas Giveaway #3
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...
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