https://www.rrr.org.au/subscriber-giveaways/the-ruin-of-magic-by-kate-holdenCloses 27 April 2026, 10 am
The Ruin of Magic by Kate Holden
In The Ruin of Magic, award-winning writer Kate Holden has crafted essays of intimate personal experience and sharply informed rumination on life in strange times.
Holden meditates on her instinctive yearning for long-ago Europe versus the natural belonging she feels to the Australian landscape, and asks, What is a home? The strongest shelter or the most lethal trap, a museum of ourselves or a showcase of fashions? What, then, does it mean to make ourselves at home in an Australia still finding its way amidst old and avoided truths? Is nostalgia a reasonable mourning of timeless lore lost or a dangerous fantasy? And what has happened to magic and beauty in the glare of modern life?
The Ruin of Magic is available in all bookstores or online via blackincbooks.com.au
Triple R Subscribers can enter the competition below to go in the draw to win one of ten copies delivered to their door.
Winners will be contacted no later than Tuesday 28 April and will have their names, address and contact details sent to the sponsor for delivery purposes.
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