Panicking about not getting everything done before the end of the year? Relax and win some fabulous books instead. To go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Christmas 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 12 December 2022. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Alex Miller A Brief Affair
The new novel from the two-time Miles Franklin Award winner. Dr Frances Egan appears to have it all – until a brief, perfect affair reveals an imaginative dimension to her life that is wholly her own. And so, at the age of 42, she risks everything to change direction, fortified by the discovery of a long-forgotten diary from an old asylum.
Courtesy of Allen and Unwin
Julie Janson Madukka: The river serpent
The new crime novel from the Darug Burruberongal author of Benevolence. Aunty June is the proud owner of a TAFE Certificate III in Investigative Services. When environmental activist Thommo suddenly goes missing and the police ignore the case, Aunty June decides to investigate. Corruption, cotton farmers, bikies, racism, water theft … Aunty June is really up against it. But nothing will stop her fighting for her people and her land.
Courtesy of UWA Publishing
Robert Dessaix Abracadabra
Of this collection of Robert Dessaix’s writings on literature and life, reviewer Ann Skea writes: ‘[Dessaix] loves the Russian language and literature, enjoys the panache and subtlety of the French and their language, and is erudite, intelligent, witty, provocative, opinionated and fun to listen to (since he regards these writings as “conversation”), even when you disagree with him. He is also in inveterate gossip … [and] good company.’
Courtesy of Brio Books
Ottessa Moshfegh Lapvona
The new novel from the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world will prove to be very thin indeed.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Remember, to go in the draw to win all four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Christmas 3’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 12 December 2022.
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