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 30 April 2021.

Out of Copley Street – A Working Class Boyhood

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Author: Geoff Goodfellow

Australian literary icon Geoff Goodfellow is renowned for his brutally evocative poetry: famously performed on building sites, at factories and jails, and in mental institutions, as well as the traditional schools and literary festivals. Martin Flanagan says he reads ‘like an angry red nerve’.

This is a poignant snapshot of working-class Australian life in the 1950s and 60s, expertly rendered with the vivid lived detail and wry knockabout humour that Geoff Goodfellow is famous for.

Listen, Layla

Publisher: Penguin

Author: Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Exploring the diaspora experience, race, politics and identity, Listen, Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an own voices novel for young listeners which bursts with passion, humour and truth.

Layla has ended the school year on a high and can’t wait to spend the holidays hanging out with her friends and designing a prize-winning Grand Designs Tourismo invention. But Layla’s plans are interrupted when her grandmother in Sudan falls ill and the family rush to be with her.

The last time Layla went to Sudan she was only a young child. Now she feels torn between her Sudanese and Australian identities. As political tensions in Sudan erupt, so too do tensions between Layla and her family. Layla is determined not to lose her place in the invention team, but will she go against her parents’ wishes? What would a Kandaka do?

World’s Cutest Animals

Publisher: Lonely Planet Kids

Author: Anna Poon

Warning: you may want to cuddle this book!

We’ve found the planet’s cutest animals and squeezed them inside this adorable title. From fluffy pandas and penguin chicks to pygmy possums and inquisitive quokkas, discover a mix of family favourites and lesser-known critters, all accompanied with fun facts and big, beautiful photos.

Starting from North America, you’ll travel through all the continents of the world to meet 100 outrageously cute creatures. Say a big ‘hello’ to the fennec fox from the deserts of Africa, the northern pygmy owl from the western United States, the European hedgehog, Siberian chipmunk, the New Zealand fur seal and the bearded emperor tamarin from South America.

You’ll also meet endangered and nearly endangered species and learn how to get involved with different conservation efforts to help protect them.