It’s almost the end of the year! Let us help you celebrate with these four fab books to get you through the festive season. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Christmas 1′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 6 December 2021. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.

Christos Tsiolkas Seven and a Half

The new novel from the acclaimed author of The Slap and Damascus. A man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. But just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift, the preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away, and he begins to tell us a story …

Courtesy of Allen and Unwin

Sara El Sayed Muddy People

Sara El Sayed’s memoir describes growing up in an Egyptian Muslim family. It’s a household with a lot of rules: no bikinis, no boys, and no life insurance, not even when Soos’ father gets cancer …

Courtesy of Black Inc.

Mark Brandi The Others

The new novel from the bestselling author of Wimmera and The Rip. On his 11th birthday, Jacob’s father gives him a diary to write about things that happen on their farm. About the sheep, the crop, the fox and the dam. But Jacob knows some things should not be written down …

Courtesy of Hachette Australia

Aileen Moreton-Robinson Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous women and feminism

The 20th anniversary edition of this ground-breaking and timeless analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effects on Indigenous women.

‘As important and relevant now as ever.’ – Jan Fran

Courtesy of UQP

Remember, to go in the draw to win all four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Christmas 1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 6 December 2021.



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