The Time Has Come...

We're sorry to announce that the team here at UKBT have decided to call it a day.

As you may have noticed we haven't been about much. Even with three of us running the site we are unable to give the tours the time they deserve. We all have busy lives and although we love to share our books, we have decided between us that we are unable to carry on running the tour site.

We have in large enjoyed hosting UKBT and still believe it to be a venture worth maintaining should anyone be interested.  However, due to rising postal costs, communication issues and missing books we feel that our year long effort must now come to an end - but please don't doubt that it causes us sadness to leave UKBT blowing in the wind.

If anyone feels that they have the time and enthusiasm to take over the reins we will gladly pass on all the details to you.  As you know, the blog is fully functional with a system in place for tours and a specific email address - we're happy to discuss UKBT in full if you want to get in touch.

We would like to thank you all for the support you have given us - it's been a blast.

Emma, Carly and Sya

Debut Book Tour: Goddess Girls by Joan Holub

Title: Athena the Brain

Series: The Goddess Girls

Author: Joan Holub

Publisher: Atom

Synopsis from Goodreads

In Athena the Brain, Athena always knew she was smart and special, but she didn’t realize that she was a goddess! When she’s whisked away to Mount Olympus Academy, she worries about fitting in and dealing with her dad (Zeus). Luckily, she meets the Goddess Girls and finds the best friends she’s ever had.

Debut Author Book Tour: Creepover: Truth or Dare by PJ NIght

Title: Truth or Dare

Series: Creeover

Author: PJ Night

Publisher: Atom

Publication Date: 5 April 2012

Synopsis from Goodreads

During a round of Truth or Dare, Abby Miller confesses her crush on Jake Chilson. The only people who know her secret are her friends at the sleepover - and whoever sent her a text message in the middle of the night warning her to stay away from Jake...or else! But Abby isn't going to stay away from Jake, especially not after he asks her to the school dance. As the night of the dance comes closer, some very creepy things start happening to Abby. Someone definitely wants to keep her away from Jake. Is it a jealous classmate or, as Abby begins to suspect, could it be a ghost?

Book Tour: The Witch of Turlingham Academy by Ellie Boswell

Title: The Witch of Turlingham Academy

Series: Turlingham Academy

Author: Ellie Boswell

Publisher: Atom

Publication Date: 1 Mar 2012

Synopsis from Amazon

It's not easy being the only day girl at Turlingham boarding school: Sophie misses out on all the midnight feasts and late night gossip. Things take a turn for the worse when a new girl - Katy - shows up and all Sophie hears is Katy, Katy, Katy from her friends. It's like she's put a spell on everyone. Katy's no witch, but there is a witch at Turlingham. Katy comes from a long line of witch hunters whose fate is to stop evil magic once and for all. Sophie is going to help her - anything to get Katy out of her life and get things back to normal. But what she finds out means nothing will ever be normal again!

Début Author Book Tour: The Flappers: Vixen by Jillian Larkin

Title: Vixen

Series: The Flappers

Author: Jillian Larkin

Publisher: Corgi Children's

Publication Date: 1 Mar 2012

Synopsis from Goodreads

Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.

Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, Gloria’s party days are over before they’ve even begun . . . or are they?

Clara Knowles, Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin, has arrived to make sure the high-society wedding comes off without a hitch—but Clara isn’t as lily-white as she appears. Seems she has some dirty little secrets of her own that she’ll do anything to keep hidden. . . .

Lorraine Dyer, Gloria’s social-climbing best friend, is tired of living in Gloria’s shadow. When Lorraine’s envy spills over into desperate spite, no one is safe. And someone’s going to be very sorry. . . .

From debut author Jillian Larkin, VIXEN is the first novel in the sexy, dangerous, and ridiculously romantic new series set in the Roaring Twenties . . . when anything goes.

 

Book Tour: The Darkness by Crystal Connor

Title: The Darkness

Author: Crystal Connor

Publisher: Bennett & Hastings Publishing

Publication Date: 1 Dec 2010

Synopsis from Goodreads

Artemisia, a scientist who also practices alchemy, is wealthy beyond imagination. She is one of the founding members of the Skyward Group, a privately funded, secret, research facility conducting experiments that erase what tradition has established as the boundaries separating the realm of man from the realm of God. Artemisia has everything she wants - money, fame, knowledge and power - except for a child. Inanna is a powerful and dangerous witch, also wealthy beyond imagination. Her powers are greater and more deadly than any in the long tradition before her. Inanna has everything she wants - money, knowledge and God-like power - except for a child. The Child has nothing. At three months of age, he knows only what he has experienced through the bars of his locked cage. He has nothing. He doesn't have a mommy. He doesn't have a daddy. He doesn't have a name. The scientists who created him do not handle him, because they know The Child is dangerous. In The Darkness, Two women clash in a vicious battle that has been fought since the days of King Solomon - the fight over a child. One woman unleashes the nightmarish arsenal of modern science while the other dispatches the weaponries of witchcraft. And as The Child grows up, his love for one and resentment for the other will change the fate of both these women, forever.

Donated by the author for tour. The author would like the book returned at the end of the tour with signatures, doodles, comments and whatever else participants would like to write on the book.
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Book Tour: Kiss, Date, Love, Hate by Luisa Plaja

Title: Kiss, Date, Love, Hate

Author: Luisa Plaja

Publisher: Random House

Publication Date: 2 Feb 2012

Synopsis from Goodreads

What if you could change your friends' lives and loves through the settings of a computer game...?

Lex Murphy's group of friends have all dated, hated, ignored and lusted after each other for the last few years. If only there was a way of matching people perfectly to avoid all the unrequited love, dumping and drama! Then Lex's friend George is given a mysterious Sims-like game by his software-testing dad which involves building character profiles in the categories of Life, Looks and Love. Lex and George populate the game with avatars for all their mates, making a few 'wishful thinking' adjustments to the settings - and find that the next day these tinkerings have come true! But how long can this new calm, loved-up atmosphere continue?