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Win our Book Club in a Box for The Nancys

We like to do our bit to encourage a love of reading and discussion of thought-provoking books with our Book Club in a Box. And what better title than The Nancys, a heartwarming and hilarious story for anyone who's ever felt they were on the outside looking in.

In our Book Club in a Box you'll find:

  • 10 copies of The Nancys
  • A bottle of red and a bottle of white wine
  • Crisps (we’ll make sure they’re nice ones)
  • Conversation starters (questions and information) about The Nancys
  • How to start a book club sheet (would-be book club organisers look no further!) 
  • A classic recipe and a delicious cocktail recipe to go with it.

Blurb

A schoolgirl, her uncle and his boyfriend have two weeks to solve a murder in a small town style forgot …

Tippy Chan is eleven and lives in a small town in a very quiet part of the world—the place her Uncle Pike escaped from the first chance he got as a teenager. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum's on a cruise.

Tippy is in love with her uncle's old Nancy Drew books, especially the early ones where Nancy was sixteen and did whatever she wanted. She wants to be Nancy and is desperate to solve a real mystery. When her teacher's body is found beside Riverstone's only traffic light, Tippy's moment has arrived. She and her minders form The Nancys, a secret amateur detective club.

But what starts as a bonding and sightseeing adventure quickly morphs into something far more dangerous. A wrongful arrest, a close call with the murderer, and an intervention from Tippy's mum all conspire against The Nancys. But regardless of their own safety, and despite the constant distraction of questionable fashion choices in the town that style forgot, The Nancys know only they can stop the killer from striking again.

The Nancys is a gripping, glorious, heart-warming novel for anyone who's ever felt they were on the outside looking in. At its heart it is about the family we make and how we must summon the courage to face the truth, no matter what the cost may be.

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Comp winners

Congratulations to our past Book Club in a Box winners:

The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith - The Coonara Bookgroup
Life Before by Carmel Reilly - The Book is Better BookClub 
The True Story of Maddie Bright by Mary-Rose MacColl - Victoria's Bookclub
Islands by Peggy Frew - STFU Reading Society
Small Blessings by Emily Brewin - The Mothers Rebranded Book Club
The Promised Land by Barry Maitland - The Maitland Group 9
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver - The Beaconsfield Book Club
Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby - The Perhaps Book Club
The Wolf Hour by Sarah Myles - The Claremont Village Book Club
Scrublands by Chris Hammer - The 2nd Favourite Book Club
We See the Stars by Kate Van Hooft - The Page Turners Book Group 
Bluebottle by Belinda Castles - The Wild Readers: Adelaide
Eleanor's Secret by Caroline Beecham - BFG: Books, Food, Glasses
Three Gold Coins by Josephine Moon - Mums Who Read
The Passengers by Eleanor Limprecht – Lorraine’s Ladies 
Sign by Colin Dray – The Book Chat Lunch Club
Into The World by Stephanie Parkyn – Feminist Fantasy Bookclub
The Last Hours by Minette Walters – the Working and Weary Bookclub
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser – Word Salad - The Big Book Club
The Choke by Sofie Laguna – Non-Arduous Book Club
The Way Back by Kylie Ladd – Perth WA Writerly Bookclub
Forgotten by Nicole Trope – The View St Readers
See You In September by Charity Norman – Book Clubbers Sutherland Shire
The Midsummer Garden by Kirsty Manning – Black Jo's Bodacious Book Group

The Nancys by R.W.R McDonal... by on Scribd

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Love for The Nancys

'A delight—moving and hilarious. I loved every minute I spent with these characters.' Paddy O'Reilly author of The Wonders

'How does The Nancys manage to be both sharp and blackly funny, but also uplifting and sweet?' Toni Jordan author of The Fragments

'Written with verve, humour and heart, this is a stunning debut, one of those very special books that enthrals from its opening, and leaves you with pangs of regret, desperate to spend more time with its characters. Simon McDonald, Potts Point Bookshop

'... a riotous, delightful mess of a case, with beauty pageants, cranky child witnesses and bitter minor celebrities ... Cheerfully scattered, this glittering, occasionally grisly and highly original novel ... stands proudly on its own. Fiona Hardy, author and bookseller at Readings

'The Nancys is a celebration of what’s important in life—which is family, friendship and also: makeovers. R.W.R. McDonald’s novel is face-paced, clever and full of wit and repartee. McDonald pays homage to the novel’s namesake Nancy Drew, but adds elements of RuPaul and Shirley Barrett’s The Bus on Thursday. The result is a work of fiction that is smart, darkly comic and, in the very best of ways, completely bizarre.' Katherine Collette, author of The Helpline

'A gleeful crime fiction debut with a satisfying balance of campy warmth and murdery darkness…'
Kate Adams, @kaddadams

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