We have two very different books to give away this month. One is a young adult novel by an Australian author, and the other is a fantasy tale of witches in a magical New York. Take your pick!
The Quiet and The Loud by Helena Fox
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This novel, by a writer from Wollongong, was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Young Adult Book Award 2023.
It’s about the contours of friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma and love that explores the stories we suppress and the stories we speak — and the healing that comes when we voice the things we’ve kept quiet for so long.
George’s life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent.
Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George’s past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under.
Everything is a blaring, blazing mess. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George’s world and shot it through with brilliant, dazzling colour, be her calm among the chaos?
The Quiet and The Loud by Helena Fox is published by Pan Australia, RRP $19.99.
One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake
In New York City, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal ventures.
The Antonova sisters are beautiful, cunning and ruthless, and their mother, known only as Baba Yaga, is the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss known as Koschei the Deathless, whose enterprise dominates the shadows of magical Manhattan.
For 12 years they have co-existed in a fraught stalemate. But when bad blood brings both families to the precipice of disaster, fate intervenes with a chance encounter.
Now, with deadly conflict on the horizon, everyone must choose a side. As the siblings struggle to stake their claim, fraying loyalties threaten to rot each side from the inside out.
One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake is published by Tor UK, RRP $34.99.
GIVEAWAY
We have two copies of each of these books to give away. For a chance to win a copy, send your name, address, daytime phone number and the answer to this question: What is the name of the Benalla dog who was a winner at the Henty Machinery Field Days, featured on page 5? by Thursday, November 2 via either post to: Country Life ‘Two Books’ Competition, PO Box 8000, Shepparton, 3632; or email to: competition@countrynews.com.au — please include the words ‘Two Books’ in the subject line.
For both postal and email entries, please say which book you would like to win. The next book giveaway will be in the November 7-13 edition of Country News.
WINNERS
We were swamped with entries for the ‘As the River Rises’ book giveaway. The winners are Wendy Cotter of Dookie and Heather Ash of Echuca. Congratulations! Please collect your prize from the Shepparton News office in Melbourne Rd, Shepparton.
