Talking Location With … M J Robotham – VENICE
GIVEAWAY – 5 copies of The Syndicate by Guy Bolton, set in CALIFORNIA
21st October 2018
We have 5 copies of great new book to give away – The Syndicate by Guy Bolton, set in California.
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE PICTURES – SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NEW BLOOD AWARD.
June 1947. California
The novel is brilliantly evocative of the 1940s era and the shooting of one of Hollywood’s most notorious (real-life) gangsters Bugsy Siegel …Jonathan Craine has left his old life in Hollywood behind him, content to live out his days with his son on a rural farm in California. But when infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel is murdered, Craine is forced to face his past once again.
Summoned to Las Vegas to meet mob head Meyer Lansky, Craine is given the impossible task of finder Siegel’s murderers. All he has to help him is an ageing hit man and a female crime reporter with her own agenda. And he knows that if he doesn’t succeed in five days, both he and his son will pay for it with their lives
HOW TO ENTER:
Just tell us which is your all time favourite book to film, from the early days or modern (if you need inspiration, just click on our recent blogpost!) Do this by midnight UK time 3rd November. The first 5 names out of the hat will each be sent a copy of Syndicate! UK ONLY
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And the winners are:
Rachel H
Annaloa H
Sara H
Jackie R
Maurenn J
I’m not a great fan of films, I’d much rather “see” the action inside my head, so I never enjoy it when books are made into films, with just the one exception – 2001, A Space Odyssey.
Naked Lunch, two masterpieces by David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs
The Da Vinci code
Definitely These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach which was made into the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
I loved reading 39 Steps when I was younger and also loved the older version of the film
Under The Volcano
I loved A woman of Cairo – one of the books I read and kept to read again.
I loved “Atonement” both the book and the film.
Lord of the Rings!
Empire of the sun by Ballard
For me it’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the book and the film were both brilliant.