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Macmillan Collector’s Library GIVEAWAY – WIN 2 sets of 7 wonderful books!
14th October 2018
GIVEAWAY
Macmillan Collector’s Library – books to collect and treasure
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The Macmillan Collector’s Library books produced to an impeccable standard but remain affordable, starting at £9.99 in hardback. Each edition comes complete with gilt edges, cloth bindings, ribbon bookmarks and arts-and-crafts-style endpapers.
Welcome to our second Macmillan Collector’s Library giveaway, featuring gorgeous pocked-sized hardback classics from this series, which now features more than 200 books. With the holiday season well and truly past, what better way to explore far-flung parts of the globe than through literature?
Be transported to revolutionary France by the Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel, or the Swiss Alps through Johanna Spyri’s Heidi, written as a book “for children and those who love children”; you might enjoy Graham Greene’s wonderfully evocative Cold War thriller, Our Man in Havana, set in pre-revolutionary Cuba, or C S Forster’s The African Queen. set in Central Africa.
Closer to home, Edinburgh is the location for Muriel Spark’s glorious The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie while H G Wells’ The Time Machine, a groundbreaking work of science fiction writing, first published in 1895 begins in the London suburb of Richmond.
Or there’s the glorious Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield, set in Devonshire. She predated writers such as Helen Fielding and India Knight with her immensely witty take on a woman’s life in the Home Counties.
We have TWO sets of seven stylish Macmillan Collector’s Library books to give away!!!
How to enter:
Choose your favourite cover by number (let’s see which is the most popular!) and just let us know in the comments below! UK only. Competition closes at midnight on Saturday, 27th October.
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Hello everyone! Thank you SO much for taking part! Would you like to know which titles was most eye catching (by far!)? I have totted up the numbers and it is no.4, The African Queen. The least popular was no.1, The Scarlet Pimpernel.
And the two names out of the hat are:
Jo C and Lesley S (e mail notifications sent!)
Number 6 is my favourite cover
Number 6
Number 3 does it for me !
Number 6 looks intriguing
Number 2
I was drawn to number 6 straight away, it looks interesting and makes me want to read it. Number 4 is pretty though!
4
Number 4 is my fav one!
Number 6 is my favourite
Number 4 is my favourite.
Number 4
number 4
I really like quite a few of the covers but love the colours in number 4
I love number 6
My favourite cover is 4, my eyes were drawn to it right away
Number 7
7
number 6
Number 7
2 One of my favourite books
Number 4 has a beautiful cover
Number 1, I like the illustration style.
Number 6
Number 4, the colours are perfect.
No 2
No 7 It takes me back to my old school gym-slip and memories of watching the stage show in London as a student in the 1960s
Number 7
No 4 for the artwork but delighted to see one of my all time favourites is there; Diary of a Provincial Lady, a very funny book!
4
Scifi and gadget nerd so it just has to be 6!
7
6
Number 2
Number 6
1 Comment
4
Number 5
Number 4
Number 4
No. 6 The Time Machine
number 7
Number 1
Number 4
Love them all, but Number 4 jumps out as the most colourful one.
Number 2
1 Comment
Number 2
number 6
No 7
Number 5
4
Number 4.
Number 2
Number 3 is the one that stands out to me.
Number 7 brings back memory’s of reading it at school. Fab competition
7
No 7
4
No 5
Definitely number 5
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Number 1
3
6
Definitely number 5
3, but they’re all fab
4. Thankyou for the competition.
number 4
I like number 2
number 4
Number 4.
6 looks interesting.
Number 4
6
I like number 6, the time machine. Wonderful book and a beautiful cover!
I love number 5, it makes me want to relax with a good book.
4
number 4
No 4 catches the eye !
Number 6
Love number 5
2 is my favourite ❤️
Number 1.
number 6 looks a good read
No. 6 for me!
4. I love the colours
2 is my favourite cover
2 REMEMBER READING IT THE FIRST TIME AROUND
Number 6
My eyes are immediately drawn to 6.
5
Number 4
Number 5 for me – lovely light, colour and room
Number 6 is my choice
Number 4 is my favourite! It’s so colourful!
Number 4 is my favourite
2. Heidi because this takes me back.
4!
Number 3
Number 4
3. Our Man in Havana
No. 6
7 – reminds me of school (not at Marcia Blaine’s but one very close by in George Square)
Number 6
no.3 very dramatic
4 instantly grabbed my attention.
Number 7 for me. I can tell before reading the title what book that this.
4
Number 6 for me.
Number 6.
Number 2, makes me nostalgic.
Number 4 – Bright and Colourful.
Number 4 would be compelling reading.
Number 5. Lost in a book. Perfect.
No 4 is bright and colourful.
Number 4, gorgeous illustration
So difficult to choose but number 3 really atmospheric cover for Our Man in Havana.
I like the colours in No 7.
No. 2 Lovely story!
Number 2 – simple but beautiful
Number 7 love the uniforms
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Number 6 – very eenigmatic
No 4 – its so colourful and enticing
No. 4 – just look at those beautiful colours, it’s so visually pleasing to look at
6 it has a wonderful Steampunk quality about it
Love cover 7!
No 4, never read the African Queen, but this makes me curious.
No 5 – as that’s what I’d like to be doing all the time!
I love all of these (especially number 4 and 5) wish I was UK based so I could be eligible to win
Number 6 it makes me want to read the book to see what the storyline is.
I like number 4 – the colours are so vibrant!
Number 2. I love this kind of domestic portrait, and the little girl reminds me of our eldest granddaughter! It would be a great set to hand on to her when she’s older.
Number 5 is the cover I am most drawn to
No 7 – loved this book and the film.
No. 1 The Scarlet Pimpernel. Love the old French flag – just makes me think of this wonderful story.
hah missed the 5 in my comment
number, relaxing with a good book, my idea of heaven
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Number 4