Welcome to the weekend 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.

This weekend, the prizes are all about culture– a mixture of the highfalutin’ and the lowbrow, with prizes to suit all tastes.

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The weekend prizes

Day of the Culture Vulture (8 packs):

Culture Vulture Pack 1:

Melbourne Theatre Company double pass voucher

The Vogue Factor by Kirstie Clements (Victory Books)

Culture Vulture Pack 2:

Melbourne Theatre Company double pass voucher

Out of Shape by Mel Campbell

Culture Vulture Pack 3:

Melbourne Theatre Company double pass voucher

Out of Shape by Mel Campbell (Affirm)

Culture Vulture Pack 4:

Melbourne Theatre Company double pass voucher

Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread – the Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland (Scribe)

Culture Vulture Pack 5:

Malthouse Theatre voucher

Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves by Laurel Braitman (Scribe)

Culture Vulture Pack 6:

Dendy Cinema double pass

The Life of I: The New Culture of Narcissism by Anne Manne (MUP)

Culture Vulture Pack 7:

Dendy Cinema double pass

A Portrait of the Brain by Adam Zeman (Yale)

Culture Vulture Pack 8:

Dendy Cinema double pass)

Fairfax: The Rise and Fall by Colleen Ryan (MUP)

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

The Cinema Novo 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)