This week’s giveaway features two powerful works of non-fiction: Chloe Hooper’s investigation of the man responsible for the Black Saturday bushfires, The Arsonist, and the story of Indigenous boxer and Commonwealth champion Wally ‘Wait-a-While’ Carr, My Longest Round. To go in the draw to win both books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight Monday 17 June 2019 with ‘Monday’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email. As we cannot afford to post giveaways overseas, entries from Australian residents only, please. Here are the details of this week’s books:
Chloe Hooper The Arsonist: A mind on fire
From the author of the award-winning The Tall Man. On a scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the result. Chloe Hooper takes readers on the hunt for this man, and the strange puzzle of his mind, as well as providing the story of fire in Australia.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Wally Carr and Gaele Sobott My Longest Round
The story of Wiradjuri man and Australian and Commonwealth champion boxer, Wally Carr. From growing up in rural New South Wales in the 1950s and 60s, escaping the Aboriginal Welfare Board, to the streets of Sydney’s Redfern, Jimmy Sharman’s boxing tents, rugby league, professional boxing, the first Aboriginal Tent Embassy and present-day struggles.
Courtesy of Magabala Books
Remember, to go in the draw to win these two books simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight Monday 17 June 2019 with ‘Monday’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.
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