Here is my latest books and chocolates giveaway. I love to run little competitions to give something back to you, and books and chocolates are two of my favourite things.
This month there are three books in the giveaway and a small box of milk tray chocolates.
The first book in the giveaway is called 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith. This book is about a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. It’s based on characters who have some sort of relationship with 44 Scotland Street. You can follow them through different journeys in their lives. This is book number 1 in the series so a good place to start.
Book Description
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland’s most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is making good progress with the saxophone and with his Italian. Then there is Domenica Macdonald who is that type of Edinburgh lady who sees herself as a citizen of a broader intellectual world. In McCall Smith’s hands such characters retain charm and novelty, simultaneously arousing both mirth and empathy. 44 Scotland Street is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is a novel that provides huge entertainment but which is underpinned by the moral dilemmas of everyday life and the characters’ struggles to resolve them.
The second book in the giveaway is called Material Girl by Louise Kean. Material Girl is a chick lit book with great characters. It’s about growing old and taking risks.
Book Description
Can real life have a happy -ever-after? A controversial, debate-provoking novel about growing older, taking risks and living for the moment, from the author of the highly acclaimed The Perfect 10.
Take some lessons in love – from a movie star…
Dolly Russell was a star of the big screen at a time when women were beautiful and men were strong.
Scarlet White is a make-up artist at a time when women are desperate to be beautiful and men are pretty rubbish…
Dolly, having been coaxed out of a decade’s exile in the Hollywood Hills after a glittering career and a headline-grabbing love life, is the latest star to grace the West End. A notorious diva, she’s used to getting her own way. Scarlet is a woman on the edge – going nowhere fast with her boyfriend of three years, getting herself into compromising situations, lusting over the leading man and wondering where the promise of yesterday went.
When the two are thrown together on the eve of the opening night, the last make-up artist having fled with a bad case of nerves, fireworks seems inevitable. But instead an unlikely friendship blossoms as Dolly gives Scarlet some valuable lessons in life and love, opening up as Scarlet gets closer, her still-beautiful mask finally slipping.
In a world where sex and love are often mistaken, possessions are more important than emotions and where ‘must do’ is swapped for ‘make do’, Scarlet’s passion for life is reawakened. As she ventures to live life like a movie star, she wonders if maybe a fairytale ending – complete with leading man and glorious sunset – is possible after all…
The last book I’m giving away is my favourite, A Family Daughter by Maile Meloy. Perfect for a lazy Summer afternoon read.
Book Description
Brilliantly entertaining, A Family Daughter might also be the most insightful novel about families and love that you will read this year.
It’s 1979, and seven-year-old Abby, the youngest member of the close-knit Santerre family, is trapped indoors with the chicken pox during a heat wave. The events set in motion that summer will span decades and continents and change the Santerres forever.
A rich, full novel about passion and desire, fear and betrayal, A Family Daughter illuminates both the joys and complications of contemporary life, and the relationship between truth and fiction.
So to enter the giveaway please fill in the Rafflecopter below. Please note that due to postage costs this will be a UK only competition.
Good Luck!
Terms and Conditions: There is one prize of the 3 paperback books and box of Milk Tray shown shown in the image above. The prize is non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. The winner will be selected at random via Rafflecopter.com from all valid entries and be notified by Twitter. The winner will have 14 days to respond with a valid UK postal address before a new winner is selected. Open to all UK entrants aged 18 or over only. Facebook and Twitter are in no way associated with this giveaway.
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In bed.
In the garden on a nice day, or in bed 😛
I love reading in bed to relax me and forget my stresses
In bed just before going to sleep 🙂
On the sofa so I stay awake!
In bed but it happens very rarely as I'm usually so tired!
I like to read laid out in the sun on holiday!
Snuggled on the sofa
In bed x
In a bubble bath xx
Love reading in bed
Love reading in bed
Love to read a good book on holiday and also in the garden
I like to read where i can but only for a shirt time as i get sleepy. Xx
I like to read where i can but only for a shirt time as i get sleepy. Xx
In bed after a hot bath
i read in bed
on the sofa
Sat in a sunny garden with some cold beers
on the beach which luckily is only a 10 min walk away 🙂
Read mainly on my daily commute to Birmingham
In the garden.
I have to read every night in bed before I settle down, a habit from childhood.
I love reading in bed xx
curled up on the settee with a cuppa!
In the summer I like to read my book inside Cardiff Castle on a bench over looking the millennium stadium. Perfect way to spend your lunch break ❤️
i love to read a book tucked up in bed with my little one 🙂
In bed before I go to sleep.
I love to read before I go to sleep
In the garden, listening to the birds.
On a day to day basis in my bed. But preferably on holiday lying under the sun
In bed at night before going to sleep
I like to read on the train to and from work each day.
I always read a page or two at bedtime and this time of year reward myself for a stint of gardening with a reading session surrounded by all the sounds and scents of the garden.
On the beach or in the park
I love to read books in my caravan looking at gorgeous scenery
In bed 🙂
I like to read a book for an hour before bed
In bed or in the garden – depending on the time of day and what the weather's like!
I have a 40 minute commute to and from work each day, so I read during that time as then when I get home I can crack on with the house work etc, and still feel like I've had a bit of me time.
In our campervan
In bed.
In bed
In bed or in the garden in the summer.
In bed x
Has to be in the bath, my only quiet time to read
In a lovely hot bubble bath, with a small glass of wine and the door locked lol 🙂
Love reading in bed
Great giveaway, thank you
On the back garden in the sun
I always read in bed before I settle down .x
On a beach on holiday with the sun shining and listening to the sea. #relaxing! (@PeanutHog)
On the sofa in my motorhome on a cold weekend away.
I like to read in bed before going to sleep it helps me relax
Curled up on the settee with a glass of red wine.
In bed or on the train.
Victoria B – @ickle0ne
I often read on the bus 🙂
in my car on my lunchbreak at work -my alone time !!
Always read lying on the bed.
In the garden
Snuggled up in bed
I love to read in bed just before I go to sleep, it makes me relax
I love Alecander McCall Smith – all of his books I've read have made me left feeling good
In the car waiting to get my children from school. (@FCWedding)
In bed, I love to be taken into another world before dreamland
in the bath with door locked where i cant be disturbed lol
I read curled up on my bed
Usually sat round the pool on holiday
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Anywhere peaceful, especially in the garden on a nice sunny day
Everywhere! I read in the car, at the play park while my son has fun, all around my house, especially while in the bathroom and I have been known to bump into things because my nose in buried in a good book. P.S what a brilliant idea for a giveaway, I love how you have combined two of my fav things. So thank you so much for a chance at winning. 🙂
On the train to work
Love to read anywhere and everywhere
I like reading in bed snuggled up under duvet
everywhere my nose is permanemtly in a book
I like to read in my bed
I like to read on my sofa.
I like to read in bed
In bed at night
Curled up on the sofa
bus journey
In bed before sleep
my favourite place to read a book is in the garden 🙂
I like to read a book in bed before I go to sleep
anywhere !! i always always have a book in my handbag 🙂
Before kids on a nice quiet beach but now I catch any quiet moment I can so usually in bed lol! x
I love losing myself into books before bed so that I have great dreams 🙂
In the bath with an ice cold beer is always the best!
on holiday, relaxing by the pool or on the beach.
I always read in bed, it helps me to sleep.
In the garden!
Relaxing in peace, in my bed.
I love to get to bed early so I can read a few chapters before drifting off x
Curled up on the sofa or on the train.
I like to read in bed
In my bed!
Curled up on the sofa with a blanket and cup of tea
I like to read in bed before i go to sleep.
In my little bay window. It's so cosy 🙂
in bed before i sleep
In bed
I like to go for walks at lunchtime and read while walking.
My favorite place to read a book is in the park while relaxing on my hammock 🙂
Curled up in bed before I go to sleep
on the beach
soaking in the bath – me not the book – it would be too soggy to read
I love to read in bed with a mug of tea before i go to sleep.
I like to read just before bed
In bed before I go to sleep at night
On the train or in bed
My favourite place to read a book is on the beach.
Hazel Rea – @beachrambler
In my living room on a comfy chair with no distractions
I always read in bed x
I love to read whilst lying on the beach
when waiting for doctors appointments etc
Anywhere. I generally love reading curled up on the couch or when traveling.
In bed generally. I like a proper paperback book too. I hate reading on Kindles or via apps.
As long as my bag is with me I have a book in it and read wherever I can.
Everywhere, but especially on holiday in the sun, by a pool!
Curled up in bed! Best place! But if not in bed it's down stairs on the sofa wrapped up in a big blanket!
In bed with a cup of hot chocolate.
in bed it amkes me fall asleep
I love reading in bed
I love to read in the bath
On a quiet sunny beach
i read in bed
I take a book with me everywhere and always have done BUT the best place is tucked up in bed
KATHY D
Anywhere and everywhere! I can't go on a plane or a train without a book to read, and if I an ever confined to bed I need a huge pile of books. But my favourite reading spot is my armchair, ideally with either a cup of tea or a glass of wine by my side (according to the time of day).
curled up in bed
Curled up in my armchair!
In bed mostly but also on the train 🙂
On the train
Outdoors in the park on a nice day.
Rachel Craig
I like to read in the garden or in bed x
I like to read in the garden
In bed before I go to sleep 🙂
i like reading in bed x
In bed before I go to sleep
In bed
Claire D
Anywhere but mostly on my sofa with cup of tea
Everywhere, I can read in the bath, bed, on holiday…but my favourite place is on the sofa with the kids whilst they are reading too!
in my bed
I love to read on the sofa.
I love to read in bed 🙂
Love to read in bed x
in the garden or when im having a bath
Great giveaway, thank you.
Great giveaway, thank you.
in bed thankyou
Usually read in bed, before going to sleep.
Outdoors, on a sunny day, with no-one around
On the bus or train.
I love to read a book when i go on holiday to the beach xx