by NRB | 31 Jan 2018 | Giveaways |
Our final giveaway in this series … To win all four books, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Thursday 1 February 2018 with Summer #6 in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email. As...
by NRB | 4 Oct 2017 | Giveaways |
Ah, spring … Forget your hayfever and revel in these four great titles. To go in the draw to win all four, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘SPRING #1’ in the subject line and your name and address in the body of the email by 6pm Thursday 5...
by NRB | 2 Sep 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In 2006 Robert Drewe, whose books – like A Cry in the Jungle Bar (1979), The Bodysurfers (1983) and The Shark Net (2000) – I admire, edited a collection of stories entitled The Penguin Book of the Beach. I wasn’t a contributor but I could have been because beaches...
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