Category: AWC weekly giveaways

“The ‘Black Mirror’ Australian politics has been waiting for.” – Zan Rowe This week’s giveaway book is the fiction debut of erstwhile speechwriter and Saturday Paper journalist Martin McKenzie-Murray. In The Speechwriter, he takes us on a frantic, funny, and surreal journey through the corridors of power. Here’s a quick

She will discover the best of herself in the worst of times… This week’s giveaway book is The Four Winds – a deeply moving, powerful story about the strength and resilience of women and the bond between mother and daughter, by the multi-million copy number one bestselling author Kristin Hannah.

This week’s giveaway is The Paris Affair by bestselling author of The Sunday Girl and The Strangers We Know, Pip Drysdale. It’s hot off the press this month, so if you love psychological thrillers, you might want to add this to your collection. Here’s a summary: Meet Harper Brown …

This week, we have 10 double passes to be won for a new film set in outback Australia in the first part of the 20th century. The film is High Ground and it’s in selected cinemas nationwide from 28 January 2021. Set against the stunning landscape of 1930s Arnhem Land,

Lacking motivation? Know what you should do, but don’t know where to start? Want to cook better, healthier food? If any of that sounds familiar, you’ll want to get your hands on one of this week’s three giveaway copies of 30 Day Kick Start Plan by lusciously long-locked UK health

This week’s giveaway is one for the young readers – three copies of The Werewolves Who Weren’t by T.C. Shelley. This magical book is the follow up to The Monster Who Wasn’t – the second book in a brilliantly rich and strange fantasy series that will make you believe in

Ever wondered what happens to us as we die? Or how the Esky became an Aussie cultural icon? Or why we have leap years? Then look no further – and even if you haven’t wondered, you’ll want to find out.  To kick off 2021, this week’s book giveaway is the

A new year is upon us (goodbye and good riddance 2020!) and to kick us off, we have five double passes to be won thanks to Palace Films. It’s for the new movie, My Salinger Year and it’s in cinemas 14 January 2021. This much-anticipated new film, by Academy Award-nominated

As we close out the year, we have TEN double passes to be won this festive week thanks to Roadshow Films. It’s for the new movie, The Dry – an adaptation of Jane Harper’s award-winning crime novel and in cinemas nationwide from 1 January 2021. The Dry stars Eric Bana,

It’s that time of year again. ‘What time?’ you ask? The time when Santa takes a look around his COVID-safe workshop and collects up 10 books to give away to ONE lucky holiday reader! That’s right – ONE winner will score themselves this beautiful bounty of bookish delights, filled with

From Dom Knight, the bestselling author of 2019’s Strayapedia, comes the definitive dictionary of the year the world went to sh*t. Yes, it’s The 2020 Dictionary and this week, giving away three copies! You might know Dom Knight as one of the founders of The Chaser. As a writer on

If you loved Netflix’s The Crown (including the just-released new season), then you’ll love Pamela Hart’s latest historical novel – The Charleston Scandal – an exuberant story of a young Australian actress caught up in the excesses, royal intrigues and class divide of Jazz Age London; losing her way but

For over two decades, linguist Roly Sussex has documented the nature and evolution of the English Language on his popular weekly ABC Radio program ‘Word for Today’. And now he’s collected the best ones into book form for the very first time. We have three copies of Word for Today

This week’s giveaway is Life After Truth – the just released novel from award-winning writer Ceridwen Dovey. We have three copies to be won. Here’s the synopsis: Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering

This week we have a memoir to be won – China Blonde by Nicole Webb – exploring the author’s eye-opening journey from Sydney to the heart of China. Nicole is an alumna of AWC and you can find out more about how she became a published author in our recent

This week’s giveaway is What Cats Want by Dr Yuki Hattori – Japan’s leading cat doctor, sharing EVERYTHING you need to know about feline behaviour. We have three copies to be won. Cats are so mysterious. Why do they feel the impulse to climb into tiny spaces? Why do they

This week’s giveaway is The Windsor Diaries – the never-before-seen diaries of the late Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princess Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea Fitzalan Howard was born in 1923. Had she been a boy, she would eventually have