March books are here, and we’ve got translations, space adventures and film adaptations – all up for grabs in our monthly giveaway.
Have a look at our new books below and then head over to Text’s Facebook page for your chance to win one.
Look at Me by multi-award-winning novelist Mareike Krügel, translated from the German by Imogen Taylor, is a darker than dark comedic novel about what happens when a downtrodden woman starts to ask, ‘Wasn’t there supposed to be more to life than this?’
Katharina’s so busy looking after her chaotic family she’s lost sight of her own needs. When an unexpected discovery starts her thinking about what could have been, life spirals out of control.
Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szabłowski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is a collection of incisive, humorous and heartbreaking oral histories. People living in formerly Communist countries talk to of Poland’s finest journalists.
For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, after the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But, even today, whenever the bears see a human, they get up on their hind legs to dance. Dancing Bears traces the remarkable true stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and Cuba who, like the bears, are now free, but seem nostalgic for a time when they were not.
Evacuation by Raphaël Jerusalmy, translated from the French by Penny Hueston, is an urban tale and a call for peace.
Evacuation follows the journey of three people as they wander the streets of Tel Aviv, each of them, for different reasons, refusing to evacuate the abandoned city. Evacuation charts the characters’ changing views and feelings, their ideas about life and death, the war and isolation, and what happens when you lose the habit of all forms of comfort.
The Boy from Earth by Darrell Pitt is a laugh-out-loud, action-packed space adventure.
Twelve-year-old Bobby Baxter’s not the bravest kid on Earth. His list of things that scare him is up to number 689, and includes lightning, crowds, spiders, alien abductions, crocodiles, falling from great heights, falling from small heights and eggs.
So when he learns that he’s the first Earthling ever chosen to attend the Galactic Space Academy, light years away from home, he’s terrified – and that’s before he discovers that someone at the academy wants the boy from Earth gone.
Every Day by David Levithan is being made into a film!
Every day a different body.
Every day a different life.
Every day in love with the same girl.
Every morning, A wakes in a different person’s body, a different person’s life. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
And then A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because A has found someone he wants to be with – day in, day out, day after day.
A brilliant and unexpected love story from YA superstar David Levithan that asks can love conquer all?
The film of Every Day is released 5 April and stars Australia’s very own Angourie Rice.
To win one of these books, visit our Facebook page now and tell us which one you would like to be in the running for and why.
The competition is open to AU/NZ residents only and entries close midnight AEST Sunday 4 March. Winners will be notified via Facebook (one book per person only).
