Top 5 Tuesday – Favourite Childhood YA Books

Hi guys! Welcome back to our new feature, Top 5 Tuesday! Each week we pick our top 5 books across a different category. This week I'm looking back my favourite YA books from my childhood. These are worlds that I got lost in on a daily basis. I remember being taken to the library or the...

‘OTHERWORLD’ GIVEAWAY

We’ve got FIVE copies of Otherworld to giveaway, complete with SIGNED bookplates! All you need to do is follow us and @rocktheboatnews on Twitter and retweet by Midnight on 27th April, 2018. MORE ABOUT THE BOOK: Welcome to real life 2.0. Are you ready to play? There are no screens. There are no controls. You don’t...

Blogger Recognition Award

Rules: Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide a link to their blog. Write a post to show your award. Give a brief story of how your blog started. Give two pieces of advice to new bloggers. Select 15 other bloggers you’d like to give this award to. Comment on each blog and let...

5 Favourite YA Books You May Not Have Heard Of – Bex

There are lots of weird ways that our favourite books come into our lives; finding a treasure in a charity shop, opening a stock tote with a gem sitting at the bottom, or most likely for me digging through the proofs in the managers office (which is where I discovered Daughter of Smoke and Bone). Regardless...

To Kill A Kingdom – Alexandra Christo

When I first heard about To Kill A Kingdom I wasn't sure I wanted to read it. I like fantasy but I prefer it to not be too far-fetched. However, I had heard amazing things from both Becca and Gem so I took a gamble and downloaded it from NetGalley - I am so glad I did! It's told...

Books We’re Looking Forward To In 2018

  Comment below if there are books you're looking forward to, or books you'd like to see us review!

‘Ash Princess’ Giveaway

*** This Give-away has now ended. *** We're giving you a chance to win this amazing new book by Laura Sebastian, so you can read it before it's officially released on 14th June, 2018. All you need to do is follow us on Twitter and retweet by Midnight on 30th March, 2018.   More about the book:...

Proof Tour: Part One – Bex

This week I thought I'd give you all a glimpse into my bookshelf at all the gorgeous proof copies that I've been lucky enough to receive over the years. This is only part one because lots of my proofs are safely packed away to allow room for even more books! Some of these have been...

‘A Thousand Perfect Notes’ Giveaway

--- This giveaway has now ended --- This month we're raving about A Thousand Perfect Notes by CG Drews and we want to give you a chance to read it before its 7th June publication date! All you need to do is to follow us on Twitter and retweet by midnight on the 9th March.   More...

Welcome To Sunshine Books!

Firstly, thank you very much for visiting our blog! You're probably wondering who we are and where we come from, so let me introduce us. We are Gem, Becca and Bex, three Booksellers from Birmingham in the UK. Between us we have 20 years experience in Bookselling (I even have a University Certificate in it!)....