Giveaway! ‘Tongues of Serpents’ (Naomi Novik)

Despite things going a little off kilter in the last book, I’m still a big fan of Naomi Novik’s ‘Temeraire’ books and plan to read ‘Tongues of Serpents’ very soon. Here’s the blurb...

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Laurence—stripped of rank and standing—have been transported to the prison colony at New South Wales in distant Australia, where, it is hoped, they cannot further corrupt the British Aerial Corps with their dangerous notions of liberty for dragons. Instead of leaving behind all the political entanglements and corruptions of the war, Laurence and Temeraire have instead sailed into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. For the colony at New South Wales has been thrown into turmoil after the overthrow of the military governor, one William Bligh—better known as Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. Bligh wastes no time in attempting to enlist Temeraire and Laurence to restore him to office, while the upstart masters of the colony are equally determined that the new arrivals should not upset a balance of power precariously tipped in their favor. Eager to escape this political quagmire, Laurence and Temeraire take on a mission to find a way through the forbidding Blue Mountains and into the interior of Australia. But when a dragon egg is stolen from Temeraire, the surveying expedition becomes a desperate race to recover it in time—a race that leads to a shocking discovery and a dangerous new obstacle in the global war between Britain and Napoleon.

Sounds good? I think so!

Thanks to the people at Del Rey, I have one copy of ‘Tongues of Serpents’ to give away to one lucky reader of this blog but only if you live in the US. That’s how this competition rolls...

To enter, all you need to do is drop me an email (address at the top right hand side of the screen) telling me who you are and what your postal address is. You also need to put something like ‘Tongues of Serpents’ in the subject header, just so I know that this is the competition that you are entering.

I’ll be letting this one run until the 11th of July and will aim to announce the winner as soon as possible afterwards...

Good Luck!