The winners are …

Olu, Margaret, Brita, Pearl and Julia

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Today One More Page is celebrating the publication of The Love Letter by Fiona Walker. I hope you enjoyed my interview with Fiona earlier. Thanks to fab publisher Sphere I have five copies of The Love Letter to give away to lucky readers.

To enter just leave a ‘pick me’ comment in the box below and I’ll draw five winners using random.org after the closing date.

UK entries only please. Entries will close at midnight on Saturday 5th May.

Is love at first sight too hot to handle?

After a decade in love with dashing Francis, Allegra North thought that the grass was greener on the other side of the fence and they parted. But a year later she returns to the beautiful Devon coast where romance first blossomed, believing she must rekindle the old flame to save her sanity, her family and her career.

But childhood sweetheart Francis has a ravishing new girlfriend, Kizzy, and he only seems interested in faking romance with Allegra to settle family politics. As summer storms circle, the exes juggle badly behaving parents, vengeful family members, and a very reluctant celebrity who holds the key to everybody’s future. When a chance encounter threatens to spark something that could burn bridges as fast as she can build them, Allegra faces a dilemma: Should she rekindle her old flame, or trust in love at first sight . . .?

The winner is …

Raine

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The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks has been re-released with a new cover to coincide with the release of the film version starring Zac Efron (out on 2nd May).

In more exciting news for UK based fans, it was announced yesterday that Nicholas Sparks will be appearing at Foyles, Charing Cross Road for a discussion of The Lucky One  and signing on 28th April. This is his first UK event for seven years and you can find out more on the Little Brown website and purchase tickets on the Foyles Website.

Is there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friends he lost in Iraq, Logan knows how fortunate he is to be home. He believes that a photograph he carried with him, a picture of a smiling woman he’s never met, kept him safe. Even though he knows nothing about this woman, he hopes she might hold the key to his destiny.

Resolving to find her, Logan embarks on a journey of startling discovery. Beth, the woman whose picture he holds, is struggling with problems of her own: her volatile ex-husband won’t accept their relationship is over and threatens anyone who gets too close to her. And, despite a growing attraction between them, Logan has kept one explosive secret from Beth: how he came across her photograph in the first place . . .

Giveaway!

To celebrate the release I have one copy of the book to give away. To enter just leave a ‘pick me’ comment below and I’ll draw a winner using random.org after the closing date. This giveaway is open until midnight on Tuesday 24th April. UK entries only please. Good luck and look out for my review coming soon!

The winner is …

Claire

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The winners are …

Kerrie, Kayleigh, Nathalie, Sharon and Claire

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The winner is …

Sharon G

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Today is release day for Ronni Cooper’s second novel Manhattan and to celebrate publisher Sphere are providing five copies for me to give away. I’m reading Manhattan at the moment and it is an addictive page-tuner of a read that you do not want to miss out on!

Meet the three women who rule Manhattan …

Raine: Born in Brooklyn, the undisputed queen of the City, Raine owns the sexiest, starriest nightclub in New York – and no one is ever going to take her crown.

Mei-Lin: The beautiful, enigmatic madam moves in all the right circles – but it wasn’t always that way. Now her American dream has become a nightmare and she may have to pay the ultimate price for freedom.

Stevie: Once the lead singer of the biggest female rock band in the world, Stevie is now flying solo – but she has a secret that could destroy her.

Now all three women are about to discover that payback is the biggest bitch of all…

To enter this giveaway just leave a ‘pick me’ comment in the box below and I’ll use random.org to choose five winners after the closing date. This giveaway is open until midnight on 24th December. UK entries only please. Good luck!

The winner is …

Michele

Congratulations! I have sent you an email. Thanks to everyone who entered.  Please check out the ‘Giveaways’ link at the top of the page for more chances to win as part of my Countdown to Christmas.

Today my festive questions are being answered by author Hazel Osmond. Hazel’s debt novel Who’s Afraid of Mr Wolfe? was released in April and she is currently working on her second novel. Hazel also writes short stories and blogs about her writing and life on her gorgeous website: http://www.hazelosmond.co.uk Welcome Hazel!

Imagine you are settling down with a lovely Christmas read … what is your perfect Christmas reading setting/scenario?

I’d go for the cosy room, large glass of red wine, only a reading light on, scenario. Definitely not Slade’s ‘So here it is Merry Christmas’ belting out in the background for the 100th time!!

What is your top tip for a happy Christmas/ for surviving the festive season?

Try to create the Christmas you really want, not the ones the lifestyle magazines tell you we’re all having, or even the one your parents had. Tradition is great, but sometimes it can be a straitjacket. You want twiglets and bacardi for breakfast? Fill your boots!!

What is your favourite Christmas tradition?

Bizarrely, having just said don’t get tied into tradition, my favourite one is on Christmas Eve, lighting the candles in the kitchen, putting the carols and lessons from King’s College, Cambridge on the radio and ‘doing’ the sprouts. It takes me right back to being a little girl and if that excited, magic feeling hasn’t hit me before that point, it certainly will then. There may be something hallucinogenic in sprouts…

Which two books would you like to find under the Christmas tree this year?

I’d like to find the next book from Susanna Clarke… she hasn’t written it yet I don’t think, but I so love Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, I can’t wait. And anything by Maggie O’Farrell.

Who is your favourite Christmas book/novel character and why?

I’m going to cheat a bit on my famous Christmas book/novel character and say George Bailey in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’… which I know is a film, but it was originally based on a book called ‘The Greatest Gift’ by Philip Van Doren Stern (or so Wikipedia tells me)

There are so many reasons to love George, but that scene where he and Mary are listening in to the same phone call, heads touching and George is trying so hard not to love her and then gives in to it… ahhhhh… so moving – he goes from angry to lost to loving in about ten seconds and if I could ever write a scene like that I’d be ecstatic.

As well as your full length novels you also write short stories; do you have any plans for a Christmassy novel/story in the future?

I have already written a short story which was kind of about Christmas, called ‘Santa in May’ – it appeared in My Weekly this year.  As you might guess it wasn’t exactly a straightforward Christmas tale, but the hero did wear a Santa outfit.

And finally … what can readers look forward to next from Hazel Osmond?

My next book is out in May – working title ‘The Genuine Article’ and it’s another romantic comedy with serious bits, this time, set in Northumberland. There will be more short stories too, and I’ve just signed a contract for another two books.

Thank you Hazel and congratulations on the new book deal!

Hazel is kindly providing a signed copy of Who’s Afraid of Mr Wolfe as a giveaway. The book synopsis can be found below. To enter just leave a comment and I’ll choose a winner using random.org following the closing date. UK entries only please. Entries will close at midnight on Wednesday 21st December. Good luck!

Ellie thinks she’s in love. But then, she doesn’t know Jack…

Ellie Somerset loves her career-obsessed boyfriend Sam and she loves her job as an advertising copywriter. But Sam is always at work and her fresh ideas keep being overlooked. Her life gets more complicated when new boss Jack Wolfe – Heathcliff in a Suit – arrives at the agency. With his brooding good looks, trademark scowl and plans for a change, he challenges Ellie to smarten up and prove herself. To Ellie’s horror, she finds herself both repelled and attracted to the sexy and dangerous Jack. But this particular wolf has an awful lot to hide…

Who’s afraid of Mr Wolfe? Not Ellie. Not until it’s far too late.