Marvellous Monday Giveaway
This week’s giveaway features two works of historical fiction: Leah Kaminsky’s The Hollow Bones and Matthew Hooton’s Typhoon Kingdom. To go in the draw to win both books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight Monday 24 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:
Leah Kaminsky The Hollow Bones
Berlin, 1936. Ernst Schafer, an ambitious young zoologist and keen hunter and collector, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their mission: to find the origins of the Aryan race. In her review for NRB, Tracy Sorenson wrote: ‘While The Hollow Bones works as a well-told account of how one scientist made his peace with the Nazi regime, there are other layers that speak directly to our own time.’ Read the full review here.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Matthew Hooton Typhoon Kingdom
In 1653, the Dutch East India Company’s Sparrowhawk is wrecked on a Korean island, and a local fisherman guides the ship’s bookkeeper to Seoul in search of his surviving shipmates. Three hundred years later, in the midst of the Japanese occupation, Yoo-jin is taken from her family and forced into prostitution, and a young soldier must navigate the Japanese surrender and ensuing chaos of the Korean War to find her. ‘Brilliantly original, persuasive, revelatory and affecting.’ — Gail Jones
Courtesy of UWA Publishing
Remember, to go in the draw to win these two books simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight Monday 24 June 2019 with ‘Monday’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.
