Marvellous Monday Giveaway

This Monday we’re giving away two very different novels about life outside Australia’s cities: Jennifer Mills’s Dyschronia, set in a small coastal town and longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award, and previous Miles Franklin winner Sofie Laguna’s The Choke, set on the banks of the Murray River. To go in the draw to win both books, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight Monday 1 July 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:

Jennifer Mills Dyschronia

Longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award (shortlist to be announced tomorrow, 2 July 2019). One morning, the residents of a small coastal town somewhere in Australia wake to discover the sea has disappeared. One among them has been plagued by troubling visions of this cataclysm for years. Is she a prophet? Or a gifted and compulsive liar? ‘A writer of extraordinary range and imagination’ – Cate Kennedy

Courtesy of Picador

 

 

Sofie Laguna The Choke

The Choke is a place of staggering natural beauty where the banks of the Murray River are so narrow it seems they might touch. It is a sanctuary for the child Justine, abandoned by her mother and raised by her pop, a man tormented by visions of the Burma Railway. Her father is a criminal, and the world he exposes her to can be lethal.  Justine has to find ways to survive, and ultimately to fight back.

Courtesy of Allen & Unwin

 

 

Remember, to go in the draw to win these two books simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by midnight Monday 1 July 2019 with ‘Monday’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.

Tags: Australian fiction, Australian women writers, Dyschronia, Jennifer | MIlls, Sofie | Laguna, The Choke