Giveaways

Email entries to giveaways@ieu.asn.au with the title of the book you would like to receive in the subject line. Write your name, membership number and postal address in the body of your email. All entries must be received by 20 September 2021.

Cars We Used To Drive

Author: Don Loffler

Publisher: Wakefield Press

In Cars We Used To Drive, Don Loffler, well known Holden author, reveals his lifelong interest in all makes of cars on Australian roads in the years 1946 to 1966. Don Loffler has assembled a remarkable collection of 280 colour slides and black and white photographs of owners and their cars, from Austin to Zeta.

Makes like Morris, Vanguard, Wolseley, Oldsmobile and Hudson, which have long since disappeared from the new car scene, but were once household names, feature.

The images record the social history of an era very different from today, when people were content to sit on travelling rugs by the roadside to enjoy a picnic lunch brought from home, perhaps with the addition of sausages and chops cooked over a small open fire. Caravan holidays were also popular at a time when motels were not yet in vogue.

Older readers can be assured of a great nostalgia trip into times they remember, while younger people will gain an insight into what it was like living in those times.


The establishment boys: The other side of Kerry Packer’s cricket revolution

Author: Barry Nicholls

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Almost 40 years ago, there were two national Australian cricket teams existing in seemingly parallel universes: the glamorous, ‘rock-star’ players of World Series Cricket run by media mogul Kerry Packer; and the traditional Australian Test team made up of young, poorly paid men who represented their country in the establishment international Test arena.

Incredibly, four decades later we know more than ever about the characters and plot twists of the WSC saga, thanks to a commercial media-driven fascination with magnate Kerry Packer and the household name cricket heroes of the day. But the story of the players who stuck solid to the Australian Cricket Board is largely forgotten or simply unknown.


Myths and Legends

Author: Alli Brydon

Illustrator: Julia Iredale

Publisher: Lonely Planet Books

Bold reader – open your mystical map and get ready to travel through time with 21 dazzling stories of daring and deceit, reward and punishment. Meet gods, goddesses and demigods, serpents, coyotes, talking fish and clever spiders, and cavort with sea nymphs, mystical women, terrifying beasts and volcano people – as you discover different tales of how the world began.

These powerful, fascinating myths and legends will transport you to every corner of the globe. You’ll journey from ancient to modern times, from hot climates to freezing temperatures, from mountaintops to seafloors.

The stories in this book link you to past generations; these tales have been passed down through a long line of oral traditions. The souls of ancestors, the lives of heroes and the fates of mortals are waiting to be discovered.