Book Tour: POD - Stephen Wallenfels

Hi everyone! I’m very pleased to announce that we’ve got a copy of POD by Stephen Wallenfels to put on tour for all of you gorgeous bloggers to read and review. The book's due out in September 2011 so sign up now for a chance to read the book before the release date.

I'm part way through reading it now and I have to tell you - it's fantastic. A real adventure story, I think this one's going to be a huge hit.


For more information have a read of the summary below (taken from Goodreads): PODs - strange alien spheres hover menacingly in the sky, zapping anyone who ventures outside.

Josh is 15 and stuck in his house with his OCD dad. They're running out of food... Megs is 12, alone and trapped in a multi-storey carpark. The hotel next door is under the control of dangerous security staff, but Megs has something they want, and they'll do anything to get it...

When the aliens invade, the real enemy becomes humanity itself.

What would you do to survive?

Book Tour: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Title: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Author: Laini Taylor

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton

Publication Date: 29 Sep 2011

Synopsis: From Amazon

There once was a young artist called Karou who drew tales of monsters and demons that delighted and enthralled those around her.

But she has a secret, a secret that ties her to a dusty subterranean chamber, where her beloved guardian brokers dark deals in a place that is not here. A place that is Elsewhere.

Living with one foot in each world, Karou has never really known which one is her true home.

Now the doors to Elsewhere closing . . .

Book Tour: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

We're delighted to offer a most unusual, not to mention visually stunning, book for tour in the form of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by debut YA author Ransom Riggs.  Quite unique in both it's premise and execution this is a story not to miss...

Jacob has grown up with his grandfather’s strange tales. Stories of a fantastical orphanage, filled with bizarre inhabitants and run by a mysterious Bird. While the orphanage is always portrayed as a place of sanctuary, Abe’s stories also have their darker side with monsters lurking against the backdrop of the second World War. As a child, Jacob is entranced by Abe, his supposed life history and the strange photographs that illustrate it, yet as he grows older his enchantment turns to feelings of disappointment and vague betrayal as he realises that his Grandfather’s monsters are really metaphors for the very real horrors of the holocaust. Or are they? After a truly traumatic event, Jacob finds himself driven to explore Abe’s past, his tall tales and above all Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children.


For further information, check out the book information on Goodreads, the author's fascinating site or watch the gorgeous trailer:

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Book Tour: Bumped - Megan McCafferty

Hi everyone and welcome to UK Book Tours! We're so excited to be launching today and I'm pleased to announce that our very first tour will be for Bumped by Megan McCafferty.

I'm ridiculously excited about this book - I only received a copy yesterday at the RHCB blogger brunch and knew I had to share it with you all. I'm on chapter three of my copy and it's absolutely brilliant and had me laughing out loud on the train more than once.

For more information have a read of the summary below (taken from Goodreads):

When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.

Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Up to now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths.

Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend, Zen, who is way too short for the job.

Harmony has spent her whole life in Goodside, a religious community, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to convince Melody that pregging for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.

When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common.

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Welcome to UK Book Tours!

Hello and welcome  to the new look UK Book Tours, run by Emma (Book Angel Booktopia), Sya (The Mountains of Instead), and Carly (Writing from the Tub).


We have some brilliant books lined up to put on tour and will be adding tours weekly - although as a special Brucie bonus, there will be three (we know, we're so good to you) starting this week!  If you are interested in signing up for tours then please click here and fill out the form so we can add your details to our database.  Please also take a look at the UKBT Rules, Information and FAQ   before signing up - there are plenty of things there that will help you on your way to becoming a regular UKBTer!


Finally, we all want to say a big fat thank you  to the amazing Lynsey over at Narratively Speaking for kindly allowing us to take over UK Book Tours after she decided not to continue. Without her hard work and dedication to the cause, UKBT would not exist in its current incarnation and we hope to continue her good work by enabling books to sail around the UK for some time to come.