Spring Fever 2018 Giveaway #8

Yes, it’s our last Spring Giveaway for this year … You know the drill: to go in the draw to win all four of the titles below, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 8′ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Friday 30 November 2018. As we cannot afford to post giveaway bundles overseas, entries from Australian residents only please.

Richard Powers The Overstory

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. There is a world alongside ours, vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. Unfolding in concentric rings of interlocking fable, it ranges from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century timber wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. ‘It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book.’ – Margaret Atwood

Courtesy of Penguin Random House

 

Michael Wilding The Travel Writer

The latest of Michael Wilding’s Plant crime novels. Liz Lambastier was a successful travel writer. Did she write one last, unpublished book before she died? Plant is hired to find out, and it soon becomes evident he is not the only one looking … ‘The Plant novels … are hybrids of satire and crime fiction, too funny to be called bleak, but concealing a complex seriousness of purpose.’ – Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Age

Courtesy of Australian Scholarly Publishing

 

 

Margaret Merrilees Big Rough Stones

In her 30s Ro was committed to curing the world’s ills, from monogamy to orange armpit fungus. Her ambitions were passionate, her energy boundless. Thirty years later, are the edges any smoother? This is a story of community and friendship, and the lives of lesbian grannies and the years that shaped them. ‘A writer of compassion, grave and insight.’ – Cath Kenneally

Courtesy of Wakefield Press

 

 

Rachel Kadish The Weight of Ink 

Set in London in the 1660s and the early 21st century, this novel interweaves the stories of two women: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam and descendant of Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition, and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. ‘Kadish leaves no stone unturned in this moving historical epic. Chock-full of rich detail and literary intrigue.’ –Kirkus Reviews

Courtesy of Text Publishing

 

 

Remember, to go in the draw to win these four books, email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Spring 8’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by midnight tonight, Friday 30 November 2018.

 

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