Keep cool through the summer heat with these fab books. To win all four, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm date 2018 with Summer #4 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.
Brenda Niall Can You Hear the Sea? My Grandmother’s Story
Acclaimed biographer Brenda Niall gives us the life of Liverpool-born Aggie Maguire, who set sail for Australia at just 19. Aggie and her sister set up two little schools in Victoria, and Aggie also taught in a one-room school in remote northern Victoria. She married a grazier, but when he died tragically in 1908 she brought up her seven children in her own way.
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Gerald Murnane Border Districts
The latest work of fiction from this award-winning author. Written after Murnane moved from Melbourne to a small town on the western edge of the Wimmera plains near the border with South Australia, Border Districts features a narrator who has also moved from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life.
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Oliver Sacks The River of Consciousness
How do we think? Is memory reliable? How do we construct our sense of time, our visual world? In her review of this posthumous collection of his essays, Jean called Sacks ‘this brilliant and original thinker, enriching our understanding of ourselves and our world’. You can read her full review here.
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Edward Berridge Villain
What would drive an ordinary person to kill? Injustice? Revenge? Internet dating? For Alistair, it could be all those things. The mystery isn’t who the killer is, it’s what he’ll do next and whether he’ll get away with it. The dark new novel from the author of The Lives of the Saints.
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Remember, to win all four of these books, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm date 2018 with Summer #4 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email.
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