2014 Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop ~ Love an Aussie Author

To celebrate Australia Day (26th Jan) Oi Oi Oi! and my birthday this week I'm participating in the Australia Day Book Giveaway Blog Hop hosted by Shelleyrae @ BOOK'D OUT. 

Australian literature is a treasure-trove of class; inspiring authors, stories to make your heart race or stop or break, novels to make you laugh, cry, swoon, scream and beg for more. 

PS. If you just can't get enough of our Australian authors click on the road sign on the left hand side bar of my blog (hard to miss) and you can browse the Australian author titles I've read. 

So to share my Love an Aussie Author love I'm offering giveaways for books from these wonderful Australian authors ~

THE WILD GIRL by Kate Forsyth

 International Giveaway

(you must be in Book Depository delivery area) 

Synopsis: Dortchen Wild fell in love with Wilhelm Grimm the first time she saw him.

Growing up in the small German kingdom of Hessen-Cassel in early Nineteenth century, Dortchen Wild is irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the young and handsome fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. 

It is a time of War, tyranny and terror. Napoleon Bonaparte wants to conquer all of Europe, and Hessen-Cassel is one of the first kingdoms to fall. Forced to live under oppressive French rule, the Grimm brothers decide to save old tales that had once been told by the firesides of houses grand and small all over the land.

Dortchen knows many beautiful old stories, such as 'Hansel and Gretel', 'The Frog King' and 'Six Swans'. As she tells them to Wilhelm, their love blossoms. Yet the Grimm family is desperately poor, and Dortchen's father has other plans for his daughter. Marriage is an impossible dream.

Dortchen can only hope that happy endings are not just the stuff of fairy tales. 

This was a 2013 favourite, see my review ~ "haunting, breathtaking, evocative ... The Wild Girl is a gift of storytelling about storytelling." 

Connect with Kate:

Website

Facebook 

Twitter

THE HUSBAND'S SECRET by Liane Moriarty 

International Giveaway

(you must be in Book Depository delivery area) 

Synopsis: From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other.

"My Darling Cecilia

If you're reading this, then I've died . . ."

Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something so terrible it would destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others too. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive . . .

Cecilia Fitzpatrick achieved it all - she's an incredibly successful business woman, a pillar of her small community and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia - or each other - but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband's devastating secret.

The Husband's Secret was another 2013 favourite ...  See my review "Funny, poignant, shocking, heartbreaking"

Connect with Liane Moriarty

Website

Facebook

ENTRY DETAILS:

Just leave a comment telling me which book you'd like to win or throw your hat in the ring for both! 

EXTRA ENTRIES:

+2 tweet giveaway and leave a link

+2 comment on the reviews (links above) and let me know

Entries close midnight 28th January and winners will be announced on my blog. Good luck everyone. 

Don't forget to check out the other participants on the hop and enter their fabulous giveaways via Book'd Out.