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GIVEAWAY – 3 copies of Dust by Mark Thompson, set in 1960s AMERICA
31st October 2021
We are delighted to offer 3 copies of the exceptional Dust by Mark Thompson, an evocative coming of age journey across 60s America. This is one of those lovely novels that we were delighted to discover and you may not find on the booksellers’ tables.
OPEN WORLDWIDE
J.J Walsh and Tony ‘El Greco’ Papadakis are inseparable. Smoking Kents out on an abandoned cannery dock, and watching gulls sway on rusting buoys in the sea, they dream of adventure…a time when they can act as adults. The day they’ll see the mighty Pacific Ocean.
Set in small-town New Jersey in the 1960s, against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, Dust follows the boys through the dry heat of a formative summer. They face religious piety and its murderous consequences, alcohol, girls, sex, loss, tragedy and ultimately the tiny things that combine to make life what it is for the two friends – a great adventure.
But it’s a road trip through the heart of southern America with J.J.’s father that truly reveals a darker side to life – the two halves of a divided nation, where wealth, poverty and racial bigotry collide. This beautifully written debut novel would not be out of place alongside the work of Steinbeck and Philipp Meyer’s American Rust.
At turns funny, and at others heart-achingly sad, their story unfolds around the honest and frequently irreverent observations of two young people trying to grow up fast in a world that is at times confusing, and at others seen with a clarity only the young may possess.
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- America will be opening up to travellers soon. Tell us, in the COMMENTS below, where ideally you would like to visit.
Enter by midnight, 13 November 2021 and the 3 winners will be chosen at random. Open worldwide.
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Winners are:
Jackie Donson
clauski
alistarric
Texas!
Nevada, my friend lives there and I haven’t been able to visit yet.
New Orleans has always been on my list!
I can’t wait to visit Las Vegas again
I would love to visit Hawaii
Would like a city break to New York with the family
I would love to visit California
I’d love to visit the Rocky Mountains National Park, especially to see the fall colours, but it looks spectacular at any time.
I’ve always wanted to visit Boston in the autumntime.
I’d love to visit California and some of the National Parks
I’d love to go to San Francisco again, we have been a couple of times but am eager to go back with our daughter and explore some more!
I’d like to visit Alaska.
I’d love to visit Virginia for the history and to take in the glorious sights of nature at it’s best
I’d love to visit Boston as I’m a Boston (Lincolnshire) born and bred girl!
I would love to revisit New York and visit my cousin who is 92.
I would love to do a music tour of the South taking in New Orleans, Nashville and Memphis
Vegas! Would love to visit the Grand Canyon
I would love to visit NASA !!
I would love to visit New York!!
I would like to visit my cousin in Texas.
Boston and California
I lived in America for a while; it’s such a diverse place. I think I’d like to do a road trip from New Orleans to Austin TX. Although I’d really also like to go from Portland Oregon to Seattle 🙂
I’d love to visit Costa Rica next.
I’d love to take my 2 children to New York. My husband & I got engaged in Central Park & I’d love to show them around.
Would love to Visit The Grand Canyon
San Francisco
I haven’t been to the USA yet, so it would have to be New York to start with.
I’d like to go to the Rockies or the Black hills for the scenery
I’ve always wanted to go to Vegas and stay on the strip.
I would like to travel along route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles
I would love to go back to Walt Disney World
I would love to go to New York and do a lot of sight seeing
I would love to return to Bryce Canyon – so beautiful
Washington
I would love to visit New York or San Francisco
I’d love to drive along the pacific highway from LA to San Francisco
I’d love to visit New York again!
I’d love to go to San Francisco xx
I’d love to visit Boston and see the New England autumn colours.
Oregon coast
Yellowstone park
I would love to return to Montana. The big open sky and the wildlife, the food, the mountains, the rivers… there is nothing there not to love.
I would love to go back to Orlando to try out the new Harry Potter rides.
I’d love a ski trip to Breckenridge in Colorado.
miami!
New York, New York. So good they named it twice.
I’d like to visit Mount St Helens, was planning a visit in April 2020 but for some reason didn’t get to go
I would love to go to Michigan to meet up with family I have not seen for about 30 years.
would love to visit colorado- have seen it on the tv and it seems different to all the really touristy places and i would love it if it snowed
I’d go for a cosy cabin in Maine.
I would love to visit San Francisco with all it’s hill and the Golden Gate Bridge, all seems fascinating.
My in-laws live in Iowa and we haven’t been able to see them due to the pandemic so that would be top of the list but I would also love to visit Montana.
New York for the theatre and museums
I’d love to visit the Grand Canyon
Minnesota to see my god daughter
I would love to visit New Orleans.
I would love to go back to Colorado Springs, it was such a stunning place
San Francisco, even for a city with all the hills its easy to get around with a wheelchair.
Would love to see distant fanily in Georgia, and I have always wanted to experience New Orleans 🙂
Boston would be perfect, a wonderful place
One day, I’d love to visit San Diego and then take a road trip from there to Big Sur
new york
Texas
We are planning a trip to New York and Rhode Island
Disney World! I have a cancelled 2020 trip I need to get rebooked.
id love to visit new york
Florida and the Disney theme parks.
I’d love to visit the Appalachian mountains – stunning on Instagram!
Would love to go to New Hampshire in the Fall x
ideally to Fort Lauderdale to see my uncle who emigrated there 50 years ago, l would love to see him again
I’d love to do an American road trip, there’s so many places I’d like to visit, Yosemite, Yellowstone, California especially San Fransisco, New Orleans & the Deep South, Memphis, Nevada, the North Eastern States for leaf peeping, Utah, Colorado and many many more places. Think I’d need a couple of years or several road trips to visit everywhere I’d like to go
I’m yet to visit America. But our plans are to visit Florida
I would love to visit the North East. On my bucket list is to visit all 50 States and so far I have managed 19. I was due to visit 9 more in Autumn 2020 travelling from Washington DC to Boston using a mixture of trains and car. I would love to go back and have that holiday. The highlight was going to be staying in Kennebunkport – which is mentioned in a song in the Snoopy musical which is one of our all time favourite musicals.
I’ve been so many places in the US but never yet the deep south. I’d like to visit New Orleans as I think the city epitomises a spirit of regeneration and renewal, even redemption, and optimism, which we all need right now. I’d also like to learn to make a true Southern Gumbo.
Liz Kolbeck
awesome prize
Sounds a great read would love to win
Maine is the place that i would love to visit after reading lot of Stephen King books i would like to see where he gets a-lot of his inspiration
I would love to visit the mother of a wonderful friend (who sadly died last year)
She lives in Atlanta, is an amazing artist and has recently celebrated her 104th (yes you read that right, 104 !) birthday.
The last time we met I beat her at canasta, we need a rematch
I fancy the Greek islands about now .. its freezing
New York for me – I’ve never been and would LOVE to.
There are so many lovely scenic parts of the States I would love to see, however my husband worked for American companies for so many years that he has already been all over.
So for me it is a ‘no-brainer’. We spent over 25 Christmas and New Year periods in the happiest place on earth, Disney World, Florida. So after all the Covid stresses and strains, to make one last Christmas trip back there would be the icing on the cake.
I’d love to go to New Orleans and New Iberia, many years of reading James Lee Burke thrillers have left me longing to see the settings he describes so lyrically for myself
Love to go back to Las Vegas
I have a long list of places I’d like to visit in America: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Chicago to name but a few!
I’d like to visit Long Island to reunite with friends who live there (and maybe sample the local cocktail too)
I’ve visited America but never been to New York – so that would be my first port of call.
the Florida Keys and other areas nearby that have various native wildlife to observe
Back to the nicest place I visited in a fly drive holiday which was San Diego – friendly, quaint and a bit kooky. Only spent a couple of days there so would love to spend a bit more time exploring and getting to know it.
I’d like to go to New England x