NRB’s 7th birthday biggest-ever giveaway #5
Here’s our final bundle of six terrific books to be won in the last special 7th birthday giveaway. We’re thrilled to be seven, and we’re hugely grateful to all our readers, contributors and supporters who have made it possible. If you enjoy NRB, please consider making a donation either directly or by buying books via the links on the site. At the end of each year we split up what we receive among our contributors, so you are letting our writers know you appreciate them!
To go in the draw to win all six of these books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 1 April 2019 with ‘birthday #5’ 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:
David Graeber Bullshit Jobs
Be honest: if your job didn’t exist, would anybody miss it? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren’t necessary: bullshit jobs. David Graeber looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself, the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital, and how we can get out of it.
Courtesy of Penguin Random House
Suneeta Peres da Costa Saudade
A coming-of-age story from the author of the acclaimed debut novel Homework. Set in Angola in the period leading up to the colony’s independence, Saudade focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule and their dependence on the Angolans who are their servants, and explores the legacies of Portuguese slavery.
Courtesy of Giramondo
Michael McGuire Flight Risk
Three planes have disappeared from the sky, their hundreds of passengers and crew vanishing without trace. Former pilot Ted Anderson, now a government investigator, sees a suspicious exchange between an airport cleaner and a nonchalant pilot and follows the pilot to his plane. Is this the next plane to disappear? Can he stand back and allow it to take off? He does the unthinkable and gets on the plane.
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Gus Henderson The Wounded Sinner
Matthew and Jeanie have moved to the isolated gold mining town of Leonora, back to Jeanie’s roots and family. Matthew’s father, Archie, is dying in his grand, decaying family home, the Wounded Sinner. One hot desolate day in the West Australian hinterland, Matthew’s car finally breaks down. Vince, whose own family is falling apart in unanticipated ways, stops to pick him up and an unlikely friendship is formed.
Courtesy of Magabala Books
Nikki McWatters Madness, Mayhem and Motherhood
At 26 Nikki McWatters knocked on her best friend’s door with a suitcase, a jar of coins and two little boys – all she had in the world. This is her account of a life of poverty, homelessness, mental illness, love and loss. ‘Nikki McWatters reminds us that to be flawed is to be richly and captivatingly human.’ – Benjamin Law
Courtesy of UQP
Ken Saunders 2028
2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams’s instincts tell him it’s time to call a snap election. What could possibly go wrong? The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected – an actual opposition.
‘A highly amusing, if grim, forefeel on how politics will be plagued in the near future.’ – John Doyle
‘Hilarious.’ – Wendy Harmer
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Remember, to go in the draw to win all SIX books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Monday 1 April 2019 with ‘birthday #5’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.
