NRB’s 7th birthday biggest ever giveaway #2
Our 7th birthday celebrations continue with our biggest ever giveaway bundles each Friday in March. To go in the draw to win all six of these special books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 11 March 2019 with ‘birthday #2’ 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:
Alice Nelson The Children’s House
Marina and her husband Jacob were born on a kibbutz in Israel. Now they live in a brownstone in Harlem, and Marina befriends Constance, a young refugee from Rwanda, and her toddler Gabriel. ‘A full and wise creation of love and character by an expert storyteller.’ – Brenda Walker
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Esi Edugyan Washington Black
Eleven-year-old Washington Black is a field slave selected to become the personal servant to Christopher ‘Titch’ Wilde, one of the English owners of a Barbados sugar plantation. Titch, a naturalist and inventor, wants Washington to help him create the perfect aerial machine. But the pair have to flee the island, and ultimately Washington must make his way alone, following the promise of freedom further than he ever dreamed possible. Winner of Canada’s Giller Prize and shortlisted for the 2018 Booker.
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Janet Lee The Killing of Louisa
Hanged in Sydney in 1888, Louisa Collins, alleged dual murderess, continues to fascinate. Did she really kill her two husbands? This novel reimagines Louisa’s time in her Darlinghurst prison cell as she reflects on her life and the grief and loss that have delivered her here. The manuscript was a winner in the Queensland Literary Awards.
Courtesy of UQP
Anthony Uhlmann Saint Antony in His Desert
A defrocked priest makes his way into the desert outside Alice Springs, where he intends to stay for 40 days and 40 nights. He is undergoing a crisis of faith and has with him his unfinished manuscript about a meeting between Albert Einstein and the French philosopher Henri Bergson in Paris in 1922. But on the back of the typescript he writes another story, about two young men in the the 1980s. ‘An ambitious novel of ideas set against a phantasmagoric Sydney’ – JM Coeztee
Courtesy of UWA Publishing
Joy Williams The Changeling
Pearl sits at the bar of a Florida hotel, her infant son in the crook of her arm, drinking gin. It’s an attempt to escape, but soon her husband appears to shepherd her back to the island his family calls home. However, Pearl’s already fragile grip on reality is shaken, and for her the island is a place of madness and pain. First published 40 years ago, this hardback edition has a new foreword by Karen Russell.
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Marcelo Cohen Meldrome
Winner of Argentina’s Premio de la critica, translated by Chris Andrews. Lerena Dost and her one-time lover Suano Botilecue set out across the Panoramic Delta, a futuristic world strangely like our own, but with its own idiosyncrasies, to find Dona Munava, the famed leader of a spiritual cult.
Courtesy of Giramondo
Remember, to go in the draw to win all SIX books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 11 March 2019 with ‘birthday #2’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.
