NRB’s 7th birthday biggest ever giveaway #1

Let’s celebrate seven years of great writing about books! Born in a Newtown pub and refined by our many wonderful readers, contributors and supporters, we reckon we’ve got something to celebrate, and we’re doing it with our biggest giveaway bundles ever each Friday in March. To go in the draw, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 4 March 2019 with ‘birthday #1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only, please. Here are the details of these SIX fabulous books:

Vanessa Finney Transformations: Harriet and Helena Scott, colonial Sydney’s finest natural history painters

This lavishly illustrated hardback recounts how Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of 19th-century Australia’s most prominent natural history painters.

Courtesy of NewSouth

 

 

Kate Mosse The Burning Chambers

The new novel from bestselling author Kate Mosse. France, 1562: it is the time of the wars of religion, of Hugenots versus Catholics. A courageous Catholic woman and a passionate Huguenot find themselves united in possession of a priceless relic, and set out on a quest to uncover a long-buried secret in the haunting chateau de Puivert in the foothills of the Pyrenees.

Courtesy of Pan Macmillan

 

 

Alison Whitelock Poking Seaweed with a Stick and Running Away from the Smell

Alison Whitelock dreamed of shooting her father with a sawn-off shotgun. Her brother planned to use the longest knife in the cutlery drawer, and her mother tried to poison him with out-of-date tranquillisers. And he deserved it.

‘A raucous romp through a dysfunctional Scottish family.’ – Mandy Sayer

Courtesy of Wakefield Press

 

Les Zig August Falling

After a bad break-up, August is trying to piece his life back together. It’s not perfect, he can’t finish the book he’s working on and he’s hopelessly awkward when it comes to relationships. Then he meets Julie, who’s everything he isn’t: confident, composed and purposeful. But Julie has a secret that threatens to plummet August right back into the miseries of his past …

Courtesy of Pantera Press

 

 

Doug McEachern Stardust and Golden

A chance encounter sends Mark David back to his student days in the late 1960s: to Adelaide during the Vietnam War, when conscription was on everyone’s minds and young people took to the streets in protest.

‘The Sixties liberated some and lost others, as Doug McEachern shows in a novel that revisits what happened when those changing times hit his hometown .. [and] offers a subtle retrospect on the hope and damage of those heady years …’ – Nicholas Jose

Courtesy of UWA Publishing

 

Malachy Tallack The Valley at the Centre of the World

‘In this intense debut novel Malachy Tallack takes us to an isolated world inhabited by a community of utterly believable folk. He is great on the nature of work, how it is done, how it exhausts, how it shows our humanity. And when he gets this right other things naturally follow — like love and empathy and understanding.’ – Bernard MacLaverty, author of Midwinter Break

Courtesy of Penguin Random House

 

 

Remember, to go in the draw to win all SIX books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 4 March 2019with ‘birthday #1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.

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