
Subscriberthon prizes 2013
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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)