NRB’s 7th birthday biggest-ever giveaway #3

Another irresistible book pack to win as part of our 7th birthday celebrations this month. To go in the draw to win all six of these special books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 18 March 2019 with ‘birthday #3’ 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:

Bernard Cohen When I Saw the Animal

The new collection of stories from the author of The Antibiography of Robert F Menzies.  Parked in by furious rich people, mid-divorce, a man misses his lunchtime gambling session. All the girls named Ella form a diagonal across the teacher’s new classroom. A swagman jumps into a billabong – or was he pushed?

‘Playful, inventive and bursting with insight into contemporary life and the ways we cope (or sometimes don’t).’ – Emily Maguire

Courtesy of UQP

 

Michael Palin Erebus: The story of a ship

In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Arctic. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half — it was HMS Erebus. Former Python Michael Palin traces the story of the ship from its launch in 1826 to its epic voyages of discovery and ultimate catastrophe, under the command of John Franklin, in the Arctic.

Courtesy of Penguin Random House

 

 

Karen Thompson Walker The Dreamers

The new novel from the author of The Age of Miracles. One night in an isolated college town in Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep – and doesn’t wake up. Her roommate cannot rouse her, nor can paramedics or doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asleep, and a third … Panic takes hold of the college, and the town, and doctors discover the sleepers are displaying unusual levels of brain activity. They are dreaming heightened dreams, but of what?

Courtesy of Simon & Schuster

 

Vanessa Finney Capturing Nature: Early scientific photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893

This lavishly illustrated volume features the groundbreaking scientific photographs of Australian Museum curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes for the first time. In the mid-19th century Krefft and Barnes saw the potential of this revolutionary new art form and began documenting their specimens – from whales and giant sunfish to lifelike lyrebird scenes and fossils – in thousands of arresting images.

Courtesy of NewSouth

 

George Kouvaros The Old Greeks: Photography, cinema, migration

Drawing on the events surrounding the arrival of the author’s family in Australia from Cyprus in the 1950s and 60s, The Old Greeks intimately traces how film and photography can give greater understanding of the experience of migration. Combining autobiography and critical analysis, it reveals the importance of photographs and cinema in explaining the experience of migration, and the inherent responsibility to preserve those images.

Courtesy of UWA Publishing

 

Peter Wohlleben The Secret Network of Nature: The delicate balance of all living things

Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? That wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans. But it is these connections that maintain nature’s finely balanced equilibrium.

Courtesy of Penguin Random House

 

 

Remember, to go in the draw to win all SIX books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 18 March 2019 with ‘birthday #3’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.