Yay! At last, the giveaway you’ve been waiting for! It seems ages since I last did a giveaway, and this one is thanks to Valerie at Stuckinbooks.com
My usual genres – that I read or write – are MG, time travel, scifi, fantasy, classic children’s books, horse stories, mysteries, cosies, crime, steampunk…. or any mixture of them! I took a look down my Goodreads shelves and thought, yes, I don’t do horror, and that one that’s listed I well remember…. I don’t have any romance shelved…. I only have one biography… two vampires…. you know it gets hard to think of genres when they’re not right there in front of you!
Well, I’m going to offer you a choice of genres that I don’t usually read, and they couldn’t be further apart. It won’t surprise regular readers to know that one is a biography – my father’s memoirs of his time with Imperial Airways in Africa – and the other is the first in a series I read some time ago, featuring, well, vampire-like people.
White Water Landings by J M Pett with Geoffrey Pett (non-fiction, biography)
Geoffrey Pett tells of how he was recruited by Imperial Airways in 1933, a grammar school boy from the country up against all these rich boys from Eton and the like. After he completes his training he is sent out to Africa, still very much a colonial region administered by the British, French, Belgians, Portuguese and Germans. His adventures in the bush, setting up flying boat landing services in situations that are nothing like the manual says they should be, show what a good choice he was for a job that required ingenuity, resilience and loyalty. It’s a story about the romance of flying, but also about the romance of a young man’s adventures in Africa, and the problems he overcomes when war keeps him apart from the girl he loves. Read more on the website whitewaterlandings.co.uk
Charmeine by Emily Guido (YA/NA, vampires)
Charmeine discovers she’s a Light-bearer, just about the time that she finds herself enormously attracted to Tabbruis. He’s a Blood-hunter, he’s hot, and he’s a sworn enemy of Light-bearers. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, except that Tabbruis wants to protect Charmeine from the other Blood-hunters trying to track her down… This is book 1 of the Light-bearer series, and there are three more for you to follow up. Read my review of Charmeine here.
The Giveaway
One person can win one of these prizes in paperback, or both of them as ebooks, anywhere in the world.
Just complete as many entries as you wish in the rafflecopter below. Entries close midnight EST on 20th June 2015.
and now go to one of the other blogs in this Giveaway Hop!
The books are a jump for me, but I love to be open minded. I am an avid reader with over 320 reads and reviews already this year.
That is definitely avid!
I read most genres My first books to read were historical and vampires. I also like biography.
Judy Cox
Sounds like this could be your thing, Judy!
I like the non-fic here, Jemima.
If you don’t get selected by rafflecopter, I’ll see what I can do, Damyanti 😉
A bit of a jump, but interesting.
You never know till you try them – although I draw the line at some things…
i would like to win paperback of Charmeine by Emily Guido (YA/NA, vampires) because this is my genres
thx u so much 🙂
Good luck!
interesting books; not really a jump
Thanks for entering – nice to see you again!
This is a cool giveaway hop. I like how different your two picks are.
Thanks, Patricia
Both books are a slight (not major) jump for me!
Good luck, Trix!
I read YA and vampire novels a lot, but biographies are not my thing.
You should love the Light-bearer series, then 🙂
These books are jumping for me since I rarely read fantasy.
That’s good, Mai 🙂
Love the prizes, thanks
You’re welcome, Josy
I read a lot of paranormal books so it’s not a jump for me
Hope you win one, then, Karin 🙂
I usually don’t read biographies, but I love paranormals. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Thanks for entering, BookLady 🙂
Biographies are a jump for me. The paranormal is not. Thanks.
I don’t read many biographies – only people who’ve lived interesting lives!
They sound like great books. They are definitely a jump for me.
I enjoyed both hugely!
I do read paranormal but NEVER read non-fiction, biography