Welcome to Day Three of Subscriberthon 2014. Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates to Overland goes into the draw for the following daily prizes – and is also eligible for the major prizes (see below). This year, you can also sign up for an auto-renewing subscription, which means you’ll always be eligible to win at Subscriberthon.

Today’s the day of looking good, with an array of prizes that will improve your looks and the looks of your bookshelf. With contributions from Monster Threads, Miss Gertrude, Porter’s Paints, Egg Records and the cream of Australia’s publishers, there’s something here to turn any duckling into a swan.

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Day Three

Day of making you and your bookshelf look good

Good Looking Pack 1:

Miss Gertrude free haircut (valued at $95)

Citizens and Cannibals: The French Revolution, The Struggle for Modernity and the Origins of Ideological Terror by Eli Sagan (Rowman and Littlefield)

New York In Style: A Guide to the City’s Fashions, Design and Style Destinations by Janelle McCulloch (MUP)

Good Looking Pack 2:

Mrs Secondhand $75 voucher

Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth (Scribe)

Permanent Past Tense: The Man With No Memory, and What he Taught the World by Suzanne Corkin (Allen Lane)

Good Looking Pack 3:

Monster Threads t-shirt

Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K. Garelick (Picador)

Peacemongers by Barry Hill (UQP)

Good Looking Pack 4:

Monster threads brooch

First World War: Still No End in Sight by Frank Furedi (Bloomsbury)

Good Looking Pack 5:

Monster threads brooch

Dick Hamer: The liberal Liberal by Tim Colebatch

Good Looking Pack 6:

Porter’s Paints voucher ($150)

Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon (Scribner)

Good Looking Pack 7:

1 year subscription to the Canary Press

Random Acts of Politeness by Andrew Taylor (The History Press)

The Legacy of the Second World War by John Lukacs (Yale)

Good Looking Pack 8:

Egg Records $50 voucher

A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (Doubleday)

Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín (Picador)

Everyone who subscribes, renews or donates today also goes into the running for the four major prize packs:

The Cinema Nova king of all packs: free movies, books, newspapers and magazines almost forever!

Three months of unlimited movies for two people to Cinema Nova (valued at over $1500)

A Kobo Arc 7”HD Reader (valued at $249)

A $50 voucher for the Movie Reel Independent Video Store

A $50 voucher to Paperback Books

A 1-year digital subscription to the Saturday Paper ($79)

A Bag-o- Brows from the Lifted Brow (valued at $50)

The Review of Australian Fiction e-omnibus

A subscription to Meanjin (valued at $80)

A new release book pack and tote back from Black Inc, which includes:

• Love Poems by Dorothy Porter (Black Inc)
• Nona and Me by Clare Atkins (Black Inc)
• Twiggy by Andrew Burrell (Black Inc)
• Boganaire: The Rise and Fall of Nathan Tinkler by Paddy Manning (Black Inc)
• The Whitlam Mob by Mungo Maccallum (Black Inc)
• Power Failure: The Inside Story of Climate Politics Under Rudd and Gillard (Black Inc)
• Black Inc Tote bag

When I read, I hear music major prize pack

3PBS pack (including $75 Proud PBS annual membership and tote bag and sticker)

3RRR pack (including 3RRR t-shirt, mug, sticker and Radio City book)

Monster Threads music t-shirt

A $20 Northside Records voucher

A $50 voucher for Searchers books and records

A Trailer Made dinner voucher for two (valued at $30)

2 tickets to any bandroom show of your choice at Boney

8 bubble cup cocktail vouchers for the Toff in Town (valued at $80)

A $50 meal voucher to Cookie Restaurant

A Bag-o-Brows from the Lifted Brow (valued at $50)

A selection of books for music lovers:

• Telegraph Avenue: A Novel by Michael Chabon (Harper)
• Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Hachette)
• A Revolution in the Making: 3D Printing, Robots and the Future by Guy Rundle (Affirm Press)
• Driving Under the Influence by Jenna Martin (Victory Books)

The tower of power Story Wine pack

A mixed case of newly released wine from Story Wines (valued at $309)

A tower of powerful historical and political nonfiction books from Scribe, MUP, Black Inc, PanMac, Monash University Press and donated from Gleebooks that includes:

• The Gillard Government edited by Chris Aulich (MUP)
• The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr (Black Inc)
• The Whitlam Mob by Mungo Maccallum (Black Inc)
• Challenge by Paul Daley (MUP)
• Inside the Hawke Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary by Gareth Evans (MUP)
• War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics by Emile Simpson (Scribe)
• The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating compiled by Russell Marks (Black Inc)
• Tony Speaks: The Wisdom of the Abbott compiled by Russell Marks (Black Inc)
• Kevin Rudd: Twice Prime Minster by Patrick Weller  (MUP)
• The Hard Sell: The Tricks of Political Advertising by Dee Madigan (MUP)
• Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser with Cain Roberts (MUP)
• Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred and the Prehistory of the Holocaust by Gotz Aly (MUP)
• Hitler’s Last Witness: The Memories of Hitler’s Bodyguard by Rochus Misch (Scribe)
• Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance by Eric Brothers (The History Press)
• Showdown in Shepherd’s Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners who Launched a Sporting Craze by David Davis (St. Martin’s Press)
• Biting Through: Five Years in Afghanistan by John Ratcliffe (Scribe)
• Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace by Seyed Hossein Mousavian (Bloomsbury)
• Australia 1901-2001: A Narrative History by Andrew Tink (NewSouth)
• Maestro John Monash: Australia’s Greatest Citizen General by Tim Fischer (Monash University Publishing)
• Sri Lanka’s Secrets: How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away with Murder by Trevor Grant (Monash University Publishing)
• Northern Lights: The Positive Policy Examples of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway by Andrew Scott  (Monash University Publishing)
• A Sense of Humanity: The Ethical Thoughts of Raimond Gaita edited by Craig Taylor with Melinda Graefe (Monash University Publishing)
• Jean Galbraith: A writer in the Valley by Meredith Fletcher (Monash University Publishing)
• David Syme: Man of the Age by Elizabeth Morrison (Monash University Publishing)
• Trendyville: The Battle for Australia’s Inner Cities by Renate Howe (Monash University Publishing)

All I need are books and coffee from Wide Open Road major prize pack

 

Six month’s supply of coffee (sent to you once a fortnight) from Wide Open Road Roastery (valued at $144)

A $50 voucher to Avenue Bookstore

A Kobo Arc 7”HD Reader (valued at $249)  

A new release pack of books from Monash University Press:

• Maestro John Monash: Australia’s Greatest Citizen General by Tim Fischer (Monash University Publishing)
• Sri Lanka’s Secrets: How the Rajapaksa Regime Gets Away with Murder by Trevor Grant (Monash University Publishing)
• Northern Lights: The Positive Policy Examples of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway by Andrew Scott  (Monash University Publishing)
• A Sense of Humanity: The Ethical Thoughts of Raimond Gaita edited by Craig Taylor with Melinda Graefe (Monash University Publishing)
• Jean Galbraith: A writer in the Valley by Meredith Fletcher (Monash University Publishing)
• David Syme: Man of the Age by Elizabeth Morrison (Monash University Publishing)
• Trendyville: The Battle for Australia’s Inner Cities by Renate Howe (Monash University Publishing)