Monday 20 October 2014

Giveaway! Win a copy of THE SHAM by Ellen Allen. (INT!)


The Sham by Ellen Allen || Release date; Sept. 2014


When love leads to death, be careful who you trust…

Eighteen-year-old Emily Heath would love to leave her dead-end town, known locally as "The Sham", with her boyfriend, Jack, but he's very, very sick; his body is failing and his brain is shutting down. He's also in hiding, under suspicion of murder. Six months' ago, strange signs were painted across town in a dialect no one has spoken for decades and one of Emily's classmates washed up in the local floods. 

Emily has never trusted her instincts and now they're pulling her towards Jack, who the police think is a sham himself, someone else entirely. As the town wakes to discover new signs plastered across its walls, Emily must decide who and what she trusts, and fast: local vigilantes are hunting Jack; the floods, the police, and her parents are blocking her path; and the town doesn’t need another dead body.

WARNING: THIS BOOK IS UNSUITABLE FOR YOUNGER TEENAGE READERS. IT DEPICTS ADULT SITUATIONS, MURDER SCENES, CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SEX AND PROFANITY.

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Thanks to Ellen Allen I have TEN eBooks of The Sham to give away to TEN lucky winners!

The Sham is a YA Thriller with (see above) some scenes that are not suitable for younger readers --I hear the beginning of the book is particularly brutal - and it's been getting some great feedback on Goodreads: Take a look!


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*Please Note:Winners emails will be forwarded to the author -- eBooks will be sent directly from the author.

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Ellen Allen on her inspiration for The Sham

The idea for this book came to me in a nightmare... It was so vivid that I imagined I was 17 again, at school, in the same group of 4 friends that I used to hang around with. We were involved in a murder and cover-up. I started writing partly as a way to get it out of my head and then the characters turned into real people... and Emily and Jack were born.

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Listen to the playlist for The Sham

As I was writing the book, I had these songs in my mind
at key scenes in the plot; they make a great album:

1. Thomston, Burning out
Emily is forced to watch as four of her classmates bully
a small boy in the local playground. She meets Jack and,
together, they are able to save him. Everyone is
traumatized but Jack helps her to feel better: “I’m 
coming up, I’m too young to worry bout burning out”.

This is a very moody and atmospheric song for when
Emily finds out that her classmate – one of the
playground bullies – is dead.

3. Snakehips (ft. Sinead Harnett), Days with you
After tourists claim Jack is their long lost nephew,
someone called Matthew, Jack disappears and Emily
convinces herself that she really is “better off without
you”. It has a great vibe and it’s  very upbeat, even
though it’s sad.

4. Ed Sheeran, Thinking out loud
This is the music playing for Emily and Jack’s first kiss;
“Take me into your loving arms. Place your head on my
beating heart.” Aaaah.

5. Ella Eyre, Deeper
Jack doesn’t give away his emotions easily and this song 
perfectly encapsulates what Emily thinks Jack is feeling
– that he doesn’t want to commit – and how he should
“dig a little deeper”.

6. Lennie Kravitz, The Chamber 
The police manage to convince Emily that Jack is
actually Matthew. She’s angry, hurt, upset and feels 
betrayed: “You killed the love that was once so strong.
With no regret to what you did wrong”.

7. Jessie Ware, Wildest moments   
This song is playing over the speakers of the
supermarket café when Emily finally finds everything
out – about who Jack really is and who killed the girls. It
manages to perfectly encapsulate the complexity of
Jack and Emily’s relationship and the situation she has
to deal with at the end of the book; “we could be the
greatest, we could be the worst of all”.

8. Clean Bandit (featuring Jess Glynne), Rather Be
This song conveys the end of the book brilliantly and
leaves us on a really upbeat tone. It’s a tip top tune!


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