Category: giveaway

I’m delighted to be hosting today’s stop on the blog tour for Nadine Dorries’ latest novel, Shadows in Heaven.  Described as ‘a rags to riches story of family secrets’, Shadows in Heaven is set in post-war Ireland – in the west coast of Ireland to be precise,  one of the places dearest to Nadine’s heart.   Do check out the other book bloggers taking part in the tour.

Fans of Nadine’s book will be excited to learn that Shadows in Heaven is the first in a new sequence of novels, The Tarabeg Series, with a brilliant cast of characters and a story that will lead to Liverpool in Mary Kate and back to Ireland in The Seven Acres (due to be published in 2019).

I’m thrilled to be able to give two lucky people the chance to win a hardback copy of Shadows of Heaven.  Please note the giveaway is open to UK and ROI residents only.  To enter via Rafflecopter, click here.  Entries close at midnight on 10^th July 2018.

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About the Book

In post-war Tarabeg, two women are waiting for ambitious Michael Malone to return home. Rosie is the local schoolteacher and most people think she is promised to him. Just a few have guessed that he has secretly begun to woo Sarah, whose brutal fisherman father would kill her if he knew.

Both Rosie and Sarah love Michael, both hope to become his wife and their lives will interweave in a tale of tangled secrets, old promises and new feuds. Michael Malone’s choice will have fateful consequences for everyone – especially, in due course, for his young daughter.

Format: Hardcover, ebook (384 pp.)    Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published in UK: 12^th July 2018            Genre: Historical Fiction

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About the Author

Nadine Dorries grew up in a working-class family in Liverpool and spent a great deal of time in Mayo with her Irish grandmother. Her first novel, The Four Streets, was inspired by memories of her childhood, particularly her Irish grandmother to whom she was very close.  Nadine trained as a nurse and has been the MP for Mid-Bedfordshire since 2005. She has three daughters.

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I’m thrilled to be hosting today’s stop on the blog tour for Song by Michelle Jana Chan. Described as ‘a sweeping historical epic’, Song follows one boy’s long journey from rags to riches.  If you can drag your eyes away from the gorgeous cover, I can tell you that it’s published by Unbound tomorrow, 28th June 2018, and you can find all the pre-order/purchase details below.

However, the great news is that, for one lucky person (UK resident only), they won’t need those purchase details, because there’s a giveaway with a chance to win a paperback copy of Song. To enter click here (opens in new window). The giveaway closes midnight on 3rd July 2018.

Do check out all the other great book bloggers taking part in the tour for reviews, extracts and other features about the book.

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About the Book

Song is just a boy when he sets out from Lishui village in China. Brimming with courage and ambition, he leaves behind his impoverished broken family hoping he’ll make his fortune and return home. Chasing tales of sugarcane, rubber and gold, Song embarks upon a perilous voyage across the globe to the British colony of Guiana, but once there he discovers riches are not so easy to come by and he is forced into labouring as an indentured plantation worker.

This is only the beginning of Song’s remarkable life, but as he finds himself between places and between peoples, and increasingly aware that the circumstances of birth carry more weight than accomplishments or good deeds, Song fears he may live as an outsider forever.

This beautifully written and evocative story spans nearly half a century and half the globe, and though it is set in another century, Song’s story of emigration and the quest for an opportunity to improve his life is timeless.

Format: Hardcover, ebook (464 pp.)   Publisher: Unbound
Published: 28^th June 2018                     Genre: Historical Fiction

Pre-order/Purchase Links*
Amazon.co.uk ǀ Amazon.com ǀ Hive.co.uk (supporting UK bookshops)
*links provided for convenience, not as part of any affiliate programme

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About the Author

Michelle Jana Chan is an award-winning journalist and travel editor of Vanity Fair. She’s also contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveller, presenter of the BBC’s Global Guide and a writer for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and Travel & Leisure. Michelle has been named the Travel Media Awards’ Travel Writer of the Year. She was a Morehead-Cain scholar at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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