The Great Summer Reading Giveaway #1
Mmmm, summer. A time for beaches, beer and bunking off … and, of course, books. Go in the draw to win this bundle of four titles and keep reading all through the summer. To enter, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with SUMMER #1 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 10 January 2017. We cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, so Australian residents only, please.
Richard Russo Everybody’s Fool
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nobody’s Fool, this new novel is set in the decaying American town of North Bath over one very busy weekend.
‘… a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy. It’s a great place for a reader to visit …’ — New York Times
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Ali Land Good Me, Bad Me
Annie’s mother is a serial killer. The only way Annie can make it stop is to hand her into the police. But the secrets of her past won’t let her sleep, even with a new family and a new name …
‘Original, intense and utterly compelling .. a psychological dive into a young girl’s soul’. — Julia Heaberlin
Courtesy of Penguin
Cosentino Anything is Possible
Cosentino is Australia’s premier illusionist and escapologist. The LA Times has said he ‘mirrors the legendary Harry Houdini’.
‘This is not just a celebrity memoir and it is more than a book about magic. It is a book about self-belief.’ — Bookseller & Publisher
Courtesy of HarperCollins
Gideon Haigh Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the shot that changed cricket
Victor Trumper is one of the legends of Australian cricket, from an era before Bradman reset the records. At his peak just after Federation, he was considered an artist of the bat, the genius of a new age. Here Gideon Haigh explores both the real Victor Trumper and his iconography.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Remember, to enter just email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with SUMMER #1 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 10 January 2017. Good luck!
