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Hi Aussie Readers, and welcome to another bumper batch book giveaway! Enter to win one (or more) advance copies of our October books below!

An inspiring work about creativity and resilience from the multi-award-winning author of The Weekend.

'A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity - through making or building anything that wasn't there before, any imaginative exploration or attempt to invent - I believe to be the birthright of every person on this earth. If you live your life with curiosity and intention - or would like to - this book is for you.' Charlotte Wood, from the Preface to The Luminous Solution.

In this essential, illuminating book, award-winning writer Charlotte Wood shares the insights she has gained over a career paying close attention to her own mind, to the world around her and to the way she and others work.

A breathtaking new novel from the Stella Prize-winning author of The Strays.

In the fall of 2011, a heartbroken young man flees Australia for the USA. Landing in the excessive, uncanny-familiar glamour and plenitude of New York City, Will makes a vow to say yes to everything that comes his way. By fate or random chance, Will's journey takes him deep into the American heartland where he meets Wayne Gage, a fast-living, troubled Vietnam veteran, would-be spirit guide and collector of exotic animals. These two men in crisis form an unlikely friendship, but Will has no idea just how close to the edge Wayne truly is.

Leaping into Waterfalls explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia's most significant writers of the last forty years.

Gillian Mears appeared to many to be a shy woman from Grafton, but her lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive passion. In her award-winning and acclaimed novels and short stories, Mears wrote fearlessly of the dark undercurrents of country and family life, always probing the depths and complexity of human desire.

From the twice-winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Scary Monsters is an affecting, profound and darkly funny exploration into racism, misogyny and ageism.

'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.'

Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upside down - just as migration has upended her characters' lives.

A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted together.

Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider or ten in the toaster. Maybe it's stupid to write a love letter to a town that looks like this, especially when it's someone else's town. A town where there's nothing to see, nothing to buy and the closest thing to an attraction is a weird Pink Panther in a gyrocopter whose head falls off intermittently. A town steeped in ancient superstition and pockmarked with sinkholes. It's Kadaitja country. People go missing in the bush there, the traditional owners say.

To enter, head to https://www.allenandunwin.com/reading... and fill in the competition form.

Entries close 23rd September so don't miss out!

Oh wow, so many great choices. Very hard to choose!

Another bundle of awesome titles and authors! Thanks A&U for the opportunity to win this selection.

Great books this month! Thanks A&U

Thanks once again A&U :)

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Excellent books. Something for everyone. Thanks A&U.

Thanks A&U

Oh how do you choose.. Great books, great authors, great reads!

yeeesssss!!! another exciting giveaway!

thanks A&U, so many choices!

Ooh my. I am in love with Gillian Mears, thank you as I didn't know this was out yet! Fingers crossed.

I got my email! SO excited.. thanks A&U!!

I have just received copies of and

Thank you so much A&U I can't wait to start on them!

I received the Gillian Mears book. Looking forward to reading it.