Easter 2017 Giveaway #3
More, more, more books to enjoy this Easter. To go in the draw to win this book pack, simply email your name and address to editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight tonight, Wednesday 12 April 2017 with ‘EASTER #3’ in the subject line. Because we cannot post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only, please.
Shusaku Endo Silence
It is 1640 and Jesuit priest Sebastian Rodrigues sets sail for Japan determined to help the brutally oppressed Christians there – and to discover the truth about his former mentor, rumoured to have renounced his faith under torture. Rodrigues cannot believe the stories about the man he so revered, but as he ventures deeper into Japan he finds himself forced to make an impossible choice … ‘One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere …’ –David Mitchell.
Courtesy of Picador
Tony Kevin Return to Moscow
Forty-eight years ago, a young and apprehensive Australian set off with his family on his first diplomatic posting, to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. In the Russian winter of 2016 Tony Kevin returns alone, a private citizen aged 73. What will he find? How has Russia changed since Soviet days?
Courtesy of UWA Publishing
John Darnielle Universal Harvester
The second novel from the author of Wolf in White Van. It’s the 1990s, and Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. One day a customer returns a video saying, ‘There’s something on it.’ Two days later, another customer returns a video saying, ‘There’s another movie on this tape.’ When Jeremy takes a look, he finds something so strange and disturbing it propels him out of his comfortable routine to search for the tapes’ creator.
Courtesy of Scribe
Nir Baram A Land Without Borders: My journey around East Jerusalem and the West Bank
Award-winning journalist and author Nir Baram spent a year and a half travelling around the West Bank and East Jerusalem, speaking to a range of people including Palestinian-Israeli citizens trapped behind the wall in Jerusalem and Jewish settlers determined to forge new lives on the West Bank.
Courtesy of Text Publishing
Remember, to enter, email your name and address to editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘EASTER #3’ in the subject line by midnight tonight, Wednesday 12 April 2017. Good luck!
