Win set of six Miles Franklin award winning bks - The Senior - send-in or 25 wol

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The Senior has a pack containing all six award winning books to give away. To go in the draw, simply write your name and address to The Senior, Miles Franklin, PO BOX 1000, Wyong, NSW, 2259.

Terms and Conditions:

1. Instructions on how to enter forms part of these Conditions of Entry.
2. Entry is open to Australian residents only
3. Employees of The Riverina Media Group trading as The Senior, their advertising agencies, newsagents, sub-agents, sponsors and their respective employees and families are not eligible to enter.
4. The competition closes on 1 September  2018 or unless otherwise stated.
5. The winning entries will be drawn at 16A Midson Road, Tuggerah, NSW, 2259 on the first working day following close of the competition.
6. You may enter as often as you like but each entry must be on a separate, stamped, envelope.
7. Prize winners will be notified by mail within 14 days of the competition draw and published in The Senior publication.
8. Prizes are not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be taken as cash.
9. No responsibility is accepted for late or misdirected mail.
10. Where travel is involved in the prize, the winner will be responsible for meals, spending money, transport to and from departure and arrival points, travel insurance and all other anciliary costs unless otherwise stated.
11. Second Chance Draw. In the case of unclaimed prizes, after a three-month period a "second chance draw' will take place at 16A Mildon Road, Tuggerah NSW.

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https://www.thesenior.com.au/story/5551189/win-miles-franklin-book-pack/?cs=6770

The Senior has a pack containing all six books to give away.

For your chance to win, tell us in 25 words or less your favourite book and why.

Entries close 11.59pm, September 1, 2018.

TWO former winners and four established authors feature in this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist.

No more Boats, Felicity Castagna (Giramondo Publishing): A migrant man’s world implodes when he is forced to retire, his wife has left him and his children ignore him. The 2001 Tampa crisis is the background to his despair.

The Life to Come, Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin): Revolves around three characters in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, and highlights how the past and future can change the present.

The Last Garden, Eva Hornung (Text Publishing): When a man shoots his wife and himself on the day their son returns from boarding school, a small religious community is shattered. The town’s pastor and the son must come to terms with the unknowable past and the frailties of being human.

Storyland, Catherine McKinnon (HarperCollins Publishers): Set on Lake Illawarra, this is a novel of five narratives spanning four centuries. Ultimately, all the characters are connected by blood, history, place and memory, and together tell the story of Australia.

Border District, Gerald Murnane (Giramonda Publishing): The narrator has moved from Melbourne to the Wimmera Plains to spend the last years of his life. Mediating on fragments of his past, it explores the border land between life and death.

Taboo, Kim Scott (Picador Australia – Pan Macmillan Australia): Set in present-day WA, it is the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit the site of a massacre, and explores how they wrestle with the possibility of reconciliation.