Christmas Giveaway #3
Never mind the Santa suit, the blow-up reindeer and untangling the Christmas lights, here are some beaut new books to win in the last of our Christmas giveaways. To go in the draw to win all four books, 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, Friday 20 December 2019. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Catherine De Saint Phalle The Sea and Us
The new novel from the Stella-shortlisted author of Poum and Alexandre. After many years spent living in Seoul, a young man called Harold drifts back to Australia and rents a room above a fish and chip shop called The Sea and Us. Who he meets and what he experiences there propels him to question his own yearnings and failings, and to fight for meaning and a sense of place that can only be reached by facing what is lost. The Sea and Us is about longing, absence and the people we unexpectedly come to love.
Courtesy of Transit Lounge
Lee Kofman (ed.) Split: true stories of leaving, love and new beginnings
In this anthology editor Lee Kofman brings together 18 writers including Alice Pung, Damon Young, Fiona Wright, Kate Holden, and Ramona Koval to share their personal stories of significant endings in their lives, and their aftermath. ‘This is a profound collection, full of surprises, both harrowing and hopeful.’ — Susan Wyndham
Courtesy of Ventura
Sara Donati Where the Light Enters
The bestselling author of Into the Wilderness and The Gilded Hour brings 19th-century New York to life in this new novel. Two trailblazing women doctors – obstetrician Dr Sophie Savard and her cousin and closest friend Dr Anna Savard — work among the disadvantaged of the city, particularly women of colour. When women start going missing, some of them turning up dead, the two doctors are recruited by police to help the investigation, drawing them into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Ian McEwan The Cockroach
In this homage to Kafka’s famous novel, Jim Sams wakes one morning to find he has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way – not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Remember, to go in the draw to win these 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, Friday 20 December 2019.
