Christmas Giveaway #2
Just in time for the holiday break, here’s a chance to win a swag of great new books in the second of our series of Christmas giveaways. To go in the draw to win all four titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Christmas 2′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Wednesday 18 December 2019. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Judy Nunn Khaki Town
The new novel from bestselling Judy Nunn. It’s 1942, Singapore has fallen, and it looks like Australia will be next. In response, American soldiers flood into Townsville and it becomes a ‘Khaki Town’. Tensions flare between Australian and American soldiers, and between black and white GIs. One night things come a violent head on a field just outside town, and young Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson is sent to investigate the horrific events of that night.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Neal Drinnan The Devil’s Grip: a true story of shame, sheep and shotguns
No one could have anticipated the orgy of violence that wiped out three generations of the Wettenhall family in Victoria’s Barrabool Hills, much less the lurid scandals about Darcy Wettenhall, the man behind the world famous Stanbury sheep stud, that would emerge in the aftermath. Almost three decades later, the web of secrets and lies that led to the seemingly motiveless murder spree are unravelled with the help of Bob Perry, Darcy Wettenhall’s secret lover.
Courtesy of Simon & Schuster
Vicki Hastrich Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the singular life
This memoir from the author of Swimming with the Jellyfish and The Great Arch is a voyage through a writer’s obsessions with art and the natural world. Set in the landscape of Brisbane Water, north of Sydney, it is a series of essays is written in the spirit of the philosopher scientist, retailing not only the details of her own life but her passion for art. ‘… the most breathtakingly original memoir you will ever read.’ — Charlotte Wood
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Salman Rushdie Quichotte
Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize. Salman Rushdie’s latest novel is a reimagining of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in modern America. Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salma R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove himself worthy of her hand. Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Remember, to go in the draw to win these four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Christmas 2’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Wednesday 18 December 2019.
