The Great Summer Reading Giveaway #2

Still on holidays? Back at work? Keep that summer holiday feeling and go in the draw to win this bundle of four great books.  To enter, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with SUMMER #2 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 17 January 2017. We cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, so Australian residents only, please. Anthony Hill Young Digger From the author of Soldier Boy. A small boy, an orphan of the First World War, wanders into the Australian airmen’s mess in Germany on Christmas Day 1918. A strange boy, with an uncertain past and an extraordinary future, he becomes a mascot for the air squadron and is affectionately named ‘Young Digger’. One airman became determined to give this solitary boy a chance of a new life. A true story of hope and renewal. Courtesy of Penguin      Katherine Pancol The Slow Waltz of Turtles From the author of the internationally bestselling French phenomenon, The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles.  Forty-something mother of two Josephine Cortes has moved to a new apartment in Paris after her divorce. But people start turning up dead in her neighbourhood. She and those around her must learn to push on with determination, like headstrong little turtles learning to dance slowly in a world that’s too violent and moving too fast. Courtesy of Allen & Unwin     Paulo Coelho The Spy: a novel When Mata Hari arrived in Paris, the was penniless. Soon she was feted as the most elegant woman in the city. The era’s richest and most powerful men were bewitched by her. But in 1917 she was arrested in her hotel room and accused of espionage. Told through Mata Hari’s final letter, this is the story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and paid the price. Courtesy of Penguin     Alice Hoffman Faithful Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers. Courtesy of Simon & Schuster     Remember, to enter simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with SUMMER #2 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Tuesday 17 January 2017. Good luck!

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