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 ‘The Cinema Nova king of all packs’

• Three months of unlimited movies for two people to Cinema Nova (valued at over $1500)
• A $100 voucher to Magnation
• A $50 voucher for the Movie Reel Independent Video Store
• A $50 voucher to Paperback Books
• An 1 year digital subscription to the Monthly (valued at $39.95)
• A Bag-o- Brows from the Lifted Brow (valued at $50)
• A subscription to Meanjin (valued at $80)
• A selection of Kill Your Darling’s best issues
• A book of writing from the Northern Territory Writer’s Centre
• A new release pack from Scribe publishing which includes:
• Cairo by Chris Womersly
• Dead cat bounce by Peter Cotton
• The way of the knife: CIA, secret army and war at the ends of the earth by Mark Mazzetti
• Thank you for your service  by David Finkel
• Out of the mountains by David Kilcullen
• Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie

 

Three major prize packs:

‘When I read, I hear music’ major prize pack

• 3PBS pack (including $75 Proud PBS annual membership and t-shirt)
• 3RRR pack (including 3RRR t-shirt, mug, sticker and Radio City book)
• A $20 Northside Records voucher
• A $50 voucher for Searchers books and records
• A $50 Brunswick Bound bookstore Voucher
• A My Side of the Mountain Music voucher for a free introductory guitar/songwriting lesson (valued at $60)
• A Trailer Made dinner voucher for 2 (valued at $30)
• 2 tickets to any bandroom show of your choice at Revolver
• 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 lover’s from Affirm Press:
  • 1001 Australian Nights by Dave Graney
  • The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries by Justin Heazlewood
  • Left hand drive by Craig McGregor
  • Nineteen Seventysomething by Barry Divola

 

‘The politics and pleasure tower’ pack

• Monsieur Truffe chocolate box (valued at $70)
• A mixed case of newly released wine from Story Wines (valued at $309)
• A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin) (valued at $23)
• An e-subscription to the Monthly (valued at $39.95)
• A bonus Overland subscription to give a friend (valued at $54)
• A $50 voucher to Better Read than Dead
• A $50 voucher to Gould’s Book Arcade
• Copies of the latest Quarterly Essays
• A tower of political books from Scribe, MUP and Black Inc:

• Speechless by James Button (MUP)
• Hearts and minds by Chris Bowen (MUP)
• A letter to generation next by Kim Carr (MUP)
• Battle lines by Tony Abbott (MUP)
• Profits of doom by Antony Loewenstein (MUP)
• Panic by David Marr (Black Inc)
• Political animal: the making of Tony Abbott (Quarterly Essay) by David Marr (Black Inc)
• Mad marathon: the story of the 2013 Election by Mungo MacCallum (Black Inc)
• Dirt files: a decade of Best Australian Political Cartoons by Russ Radcliffe (Scribe)
• ‎The dispensable nation: American foreign policy in retreat by Vali Nasr (Scribe)
• War from the ground up by Emile Simpson (Scribe)
• On the abolition of all political parties by Simone Weil (Black Inc)
• Battlers and billionaires: the story of inequality in Australia by Andrew Leigh (Black Inc)
• The big handout: how US subsidies and corporate welfare corrupt the world by Kostigen Thomas (Scribe)

 

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

• 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 new release pack of books from MUP:
  • Mr Snack and the Lady Water: travel tales from my lost years by Brendan Shanahan  (MUP)
  • Things I didn’t expect when I was expecting by Monica Dux (MUP)
  • 28 Days in Provence by Shannon Bennett (Miegunyah Press)
  • Decent obsessions by Bernard Salt (MUP)
  • Damned if I do by Philip Nitschke (MUP)
  • Exit wounds by John Cantwell and Greg Bearup (MUP)
• A new release pack from Text publishing:
  • A history of silence by Lloyd Jones (Text)
  • A tale for the time being by Ruth Ozeki (Text)
  • The Rosie project by Graeme Simsion (Text)
  • The forgotten rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright (Text)

 

Day Prizes: Day One (Wed):

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 1

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin) (valued at $23) and three new release books.

 

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 2

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23) and three new release books.

 

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 3

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23) and three new release books.

 

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 4

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23) and three new release books.

 

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 5

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23) and three new release books.

 

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 6

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23) and three new release books.

 

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 7

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23) and three new release books.

 

‘All I need are books and coffee’ minipack 8

A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23) and three new release books.

Day Prizes: Day Two (Thursday):

‘Eco ecstasy’ pack

• A free service at Commuter Cycles (valued at $120)
• A $50 voucher for Ceres Nursery
• Eco Lover’s book pack which includes:
• Humboldt: life on America’s marijuana frontier by Emily Brady (Scribe)
• Changing gears: a pedal-powered detour from the rat race by Greg Foyster (Affirm)
• The ancient paths: discovering the lost map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb (Picador)
• The Great Barrier Reef: a journey through the world’s greatest natural wonder by Len Zell (BBC)

 

‘Don’t worry, bee happy’ pack

• A beekeeping workshop (valued at $46), a beekeeper’s book (valued at $26.50) and other sweet reads including:
• Oil and honey: the education of an unlikely activist by Bill McKibben (Black Inc)
• The last wild kid by Piers Torday (Quercus)
• How the dog became the dog by Mark Derr (Scribe)

 

‘My books look good so I will too’ pack:

• A voucher for a free haircut from Miss Gertrude ($85)
• A gift pack from Monster Threads (valued at $85)
• A $25 voucher from Faster Pussycat
• A good-looking books pack including: a collection of Bruce Mutard’s graphic novels and a selection of fiction from Affirm Press

 

Day 3 prizes (Friday):

‘Media and Kobo Junkie’ pack

• A Kobo Arc 16gb reader (valued at $249)
• The blogging revolution by Antony Loewenstein (MUP)
• Stop press: last days of newspapers by Rachel Buchanan (Scribe)
• What’s next in journalism? by Meg Simons (Scribe)
• The new front page by Tim Dunlop (Scribe)

 

‘I’m a science nerd’ book pack

• The rise of fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution by John Long (New South)
• The Book of Woe: the making of the DSM and the unmaking of psychiatry by Gary Greenberg (Scribe)
• Trouble in mind stories from a neuropsychologists handbook by Jenni Ogden (OUP)
• Test tube revolution: the early history of IVF by John Leeton (Monash University)
• Scatter, adapt and remember: how humans will survive a mass extinction by Annalee Newitz (Scribe)

 

‘I read religiously’ book pack

• Killing Jesus: a history by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard (Panmac)
• For God’s sake: an atheist, a jew, a Christian and a Muslim debate religion by Jane Caro, Antony Loewenstein, Simon Smart and Rachel Woodlock (Panmac)
• My story by Elizabeth Smart (PacMac)
• Running with the blood god: down and dirty with freedom fighters, rebels and misfits by Matthew Thompson (Picador)

 

’I’m a badass and I read badass books’ pack

• Gangland North South and West by James Morton and Susanna Lobez (Victory Books)
• I, Mick Gatto by Mick Gatto and Tom Noble (Victory Books)
• The prey by Tony Park (PanMac)
• Two Soldiers by Roslund and Hellstrom (Quercus)

 

‘History’s for Hotties’ book pack

• In the garden of beasts: love, terror and an American family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (Scribe)
• Test tube revolution: the early history of IVF by John Leeton (Monash University)
• Where is Dr Leichardt? The greatest mystery in Australian history by Darrell Lewis (Monash University)
• Fair World: a history of world’s fairs and expositions from London to Shanghai 1851-2010 by Paul Greenhalgh

Day 4 and 5 prizes (Saturday and Sunday):

 

‘Live Every Day Like It’s a Sunday’ pack

• Two double passes for Sun Theatre (valued at $66)
• A $50 Voucher for breakfast, coffee and cake at Milkwood
• A Trailer Made dinner voucher for 2 (valued at $30)
• A Bag-o- Brows from the Lifted Brow (valued at $50)
• A Padre Coffee pack (125g bag of Padre’s Seasonal Blend + exclusive Padre coffee tin, valued at $23)

 

‘Florentine Aristocrat’ pack

• MTC double passes to two of the first four shows of 2014 (valued at $396)
• Malthouse double pass gift voucher for the 2014 production Night on Bald Mountain, the Patrick White play directed by Matt Lutton ($120)
• $150 voucher from Porter’s Paints
• Art books including:
  • Dante: the Divine Comedy by Clive James (Picador)
  • The society portrait: from David to Warhol by Gabriel Badea-Paun (Vendome)
  • 1001 Australian nights: a memoir by Dave Graney (ed)
  • Images of power: Balinese paintings made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead by Hildred Geertz (University of Hawaii Press)
  • Affairs of the art: love, loss and power in the art world by Katrina Strickland (MUP)

Day 6 prizes (Monday):

‘ I don’t just like buying furniture, I like reading about it too’ pack

• A $75 voucher for furniture from Mrs Secondhand
• The illustrated history of furniture by Frederick Litchfield (Arcturus)

 

‘ Everything I need is on one corner in Carlton’ pack

• An $80-dinner-voucher from Tiamo Bistro
• A $50 Readings voucher

Day 7 prizes (Tuesday)

The Melbourne Theatre Company Pack
An MTC double pass to one of the first four shows of 2014 (valued at $198)

The Kino Cinema Pack
5 double passes to Kino Cinema (valued at $180)

The ‘Culture Vulture’ book pack

See my world: writings by young Indigenous Australians (NT Writers Centre)
Books from Monash University Press including

• Circus and Stage: the theatrical adventures of Rose Edouin and G B W Lewis by Mimi Colligan
• The two Frank Thrings by Peter Fitzpatrick
• Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators by Kay Dreyfus
• Anzac memories: living with the legend by Alistair Thomson  (Monash University)

Day 8 prizes (Wednesday)

 

The Melbourne Theatre Company prize

 

An MTC double pass to one of the first four shows of 2014 (valued at $198)

The Kino Cinema prize

5 double passes to Kino Cinema (valued at $180)

The Culture Vulture book pack

• See my world: writings by young Indigenous Australians (NT Writers Centre)

And books from Monash University Press including:

• Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators by Kay Dreyfus
• Henry Black: on stage in Meiji Japan by Ian McArthur
• Circus and Stage: the theatrical adventures of Rose Edouin and G B W Lewis by Mimi Colligan

I’m a writer and I’m broke pack (Victoria)

• Membership for one year to Writers Victoria (valued at $65)
• A $50 book voucher to Hill of Content Bookstore

 

And a bunch of books writers love:

• Telling stories: Australian life and literature by Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni (Monash University)
• Creative writing for beginners: a novel by Colin Batrouney (Affirm Press)
• Best Australian essays 2012 edited by Ramona Koval (Black Inc)
• Gaysia by Benjamin Law (Black Inc)
• Bearings by Leah Swann (Affirm)

 

I’m a writer and I’m broke prize (Queensland)

• Queensland Writer’s Centre membership (valued at $65)
• 2 Queensland Writer’s Centre notebooks (valued at $30)
• A three-month online subscription to Australian Writer’s Marketplace, the magazine of Queensland Writer’s Centre
• Admission to IQ seminar at Queensland Writer’s Centre (valued at $65)

The avid reader prize

$50 voucher to Avid Reader (can be used online)

Independently minded book pack

• Holiday in Cambodia by Laura Jean McKay (Affirm)
• Out of shape by Mel Campbell (Affirm)
• Letter to George Clooney by Debra Adelaide (Picador)
• Telling stories: Australian life and literature by Tanya Dalziell and Paul Genoni (Monash University)
• Best Australian Stories 2012 by Sonya Hartnett (Black Inc)
• See my world: writings by young Indigenous Australians (NT Writers Centre)

I love digital ink prize

A Kobo Aura ereader (valued at $189.95; courtesy of the Overland board)