The ODT has six Summer Times family book hampers to give away courtesy of our regular books page publishers. Each 10-book hamper, worth hundreds of dollars, has a mix of books for all ages and across various genres, ensuring there should be something for most members of the family to read this summer. Keep reading our Summer Times pages for your chance to win.
HAMPER 5
Today's hamper contains top fiction with Sebastian Faulks' homage to PG Wodehouse Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (Random House), a love story and thriller about the true author of Shakespeare's plays The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett (Text Publishing), Thai thriller The Dying Beach by Angela Savage (Text Publishing), Joanna Trollope's take on Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility (Harper Collins), and winner of this year's NZ Post Book Awards poetry prize The Darling North by Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press).
Non-fiction reads are A Taste of Home by MasterChef NZ winner Brett McGregor (Random House), and the fascinating story of the Led Zeppelin frontman in Robert Plant: A Life, by Paul Rees (HarperCollins).
For teens there is John Boyne's wartime tale Stay Where You Are and Then Leave (Random House), and children's picture books A Deal's a Deal by Stephanie Blake and A Book is a Book by Jenny Bornholdt (both Gecko Press).
- For your chance to win this hamper, email helen.speirs@odt.co.nz with your name and postal address in the body of the email, and ''Book hamper 5'' in the subject line, by 5pm tomorrow, Friday, January 10. The winner will be contacted. The winner of hamper 4 was Anthony Nally, of Waikouaiti.
