More great reads for these long summer days … To win this bundle of four titles, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Tuesday 23 January 2018 with Summer #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.
Ruth Rendell A Spot of Folly: Ten and a quarter new tales of murder and mayhem
Introduced by Sophie Hannah. A businessman boasts of cheating on his wife, only to have the tables turned; a beautiful country rectory reverberates to the echo of a historical murder; a wealthy man finds there is more to his wife’s kidnapping than meets the eye. ‘A literary phenomenon’ — The Guardian
Courtesy of Allen & Unwin
Edmund Pegge Forever Horatio: An actor’s life
With a foreword by Dame Judi Dench. Edmund Pegge is one of Australia’s most prolific supporting actors. Travelling between England and Australia and working in film and television for over 50 years, he knows all the tricks and trials of a working actor’s life. It is a celebration of the unexpected joy of being, as he puts it, forever Horatio, never Hamlet.
Courtesy of Wakefield Press
Michael Giacometti My Life & Other Fictions: A collection of short stories (and why they were written)
Our reviewer Jessica Stewart said, ‘Giacometti is skilled in the short form and his most successful stories are those of two to three pages only. There is much to excite, to heighten our senses, then a swift close. There is no dusk in his nightfall … His explication of his characters’ motivations and their struggles through the frameworks of Buddhism, Hinduism and Judeo-Christianity bestows a generous guide for the reader. To read is to learn and this is a gift.’ You can read the full review here.
Courtesy of Spineless Wonders
Diane Chamberlain The Stolen Marriage
In 1944 23-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life, marries a stranger and moves to the small town of Hickory in North Carolina. But her new husband is a secretive man who often stays out all night and shows no interest in making love. Can she untangle her husband’s mysterious behaviour and save her own life?
Courtesy of Pan Macmillan
Remember, to go in the draw to win all four titles, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Tuesday 23 January 2018 with Summer #3 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.
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