Congratulations to  Anna Varma, J. Pugh and C. Helms for winning a copy of Mr and Mrs Bartholomew Fox

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Congratulations to Tracey Dodds, Sarah Mitney, John Chello

Aren’t we a funny lot? Travels round the British Psyche

Football hooligans, Friday-night binge drinking, NHS waiting lists, corrupt politicians – oh and the climate… there are seemingly endless things that make us despair of life in modern Britain. Sometimes we may even wonder why we live here at all – no wonder so many of us are going off to live in the sunnier climes of Spain and France.

But in Aren’t We a Funny Lot? Richard Walters takes an altogether different, more cheerful tack. From spotted dick to seaside holidays and from country pubs to our national obsession with tea, he reminds us just what it is that makes Britain ‘great’. In a series of chapters covering such diverse topics as sleep, sex and sunshine (or the lack of all three), he pinpoints the weird and wonderful idiosyncrasies that make us British what we are.

Along the Thames and Book Guild Publishing have teamed together for your chance to win one of three copies of “Aren’t we a funny lot?” by Richard Walters

For your chance to win one of these copies, please send an email to Competition@AlongTheThames.co.uk by the closing date.

The competition closes on 15th Mayand the winners will be announced on this web-site as well as being published in the June/July issue

Congratulations to Glenda Barrett, Cate Elliot and Sonia Patel fro winning copies of Poor Little Rich Girls.

Along the Thames and Book Guild Publishing have teamed together for your chance to win one of three copies of “Poor Little Rich Girls” by Moss Murray

For your chance to win one of these copies, please send an email to Competition@AlongTheThames.co.uk by the closing date.

The competition closes on 11th March and the winners will be announced on this web-site as well as being published in the April/May

Diamonds, furs, money and greed for the 1960s heroines of this novel

It is the 1960s and women are wanting – and winning – more, far far more, than the cards Fate dealt them at birth.  For some like Penny Welling, it is the honour of being a Dame, having the ear of the prime minister and being spokesman for the entire British tourist industry.  For others like the feline beauty, Marianne Wilkinson, an ancient European title together with a fabulous fairy-tale castle, an ancestral necklace of triple-looped black pearls and yards of mink.  While others such as Christiana Stephanopolous – wife of a Greek shipping tycoon – prefer to dress in sable while dreaming of heading the Board Room.  Yet even the haughty, scheming and mega-successful Christiana risks being eclipsed by her ambitious daughter, Stephanie, a feisty eighteen-year-old with all her mother’s beauty and business brains yet with markedly different ideas on the route to becoming an empress of an international industrial giant  …

The Enigma Mission

Congratulations to Lauren Kirkman, Maya Russell and Martina Joslin for winning a copy of the Enigma Mission.

It is well known how important breaking the German Enigma code was to the Allied War effort, ad hte vital role played by those at Bletchley Park in cracking the cipher.  But what if Nazi Germany sent spies to England to ensure the protection of their code – at all costs?

Stan Ingram, who worked as a electrician on the Bombe machines at Bletchley Park, has created a thrilling tale of espionage and heroism at the heart of the deciphering operation.

Congratulations to the winners of “The Wozid”, by Trevor G Pratt – Nicky Farmer, John Glovens and Melanie Hisop.

Look out for our next book giveaway – “The Enigma Mission” by Stan Ingram

For your chance to win one of three copies of “The Wozid” by Trevor G pratt, please fill in the form on the right.

Follow the adventures of the Wozid, his brother Bojit and their good friend Sniff the dragon as they try to help others with magic that never seems to turn out quite as it should. Gentle humour and endearing characters will make these seven short stories firm favourites at bedtime – and young children will love to join in with the catchy rhymes and rhythms.