Spring Fever 2018 giveaway #3
Here’s a feast of new fiction to win in our Spring giveaway. To go in the draw to win all four of these titles, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 12 November 2018. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.
Liz Byrski A Month of Sundays
For over ten years Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now. In the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, the four will spend a month reading and talking about books. But each has been asked to choose a book that will teach the others about her. And each is facing her own crossroads …
Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Lydia Syson Mr Peacock’s Possessions
Oceania, 1879. An intrepid family of settlers are determined to make a remote volcanic island their own. For two years the Peacock family has struggled, trying to make this unforgiving place home. At last, a ship appears. The Pacific Islanders on board have travelled 800 miles in search of work and new horizons. Hopes are high for all, until a vulnerable boy vanishes.
‘Brings history alive’ — The Observer
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Julia Prendergast The Earth Does Not Get Fat
In the beach village of Blairgowrie near Melbourne, teenager Chelsea cares for her grandfather with dementia and her mother, who is sinking further into depression. Chelsea’s questions about her mother, their family history and the place from which they’ve come, demand to be answered after a strange parcel arrives in the mail.
Courtesy of UWA Publishing
James Cristina Antidote to a Curse
Silvio Portelli returns to Melbourne and rents a room from charismatic octogenarian Nancy Triganza. At a city sex shop, he meets the mysterious Zlatko, a Bosnian immigrant whose past begins to enter his dreams.
‘Cristina and his work evoke Franz Kafka and Arshile Gorky. This novel is an astute exploration of the nature of identity. It is also an intelligent and provocative inquiry into the nature of narrative itself …’ — Janette Turner Hospital
Courtesy of Transit Lounge
Remember, to go in the draw to win these four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 3’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Monday 12 November 2018.
