Oh joy! More free books! Well, more free books for our subscribers. This week we’re giving away 10 
copies of Debra Adelaide’s first novel The Hotel Albatross. First published in 1995, Pan Macmillan is re-releasing the book on the back of the huge success of Debra’s 2007 book, The Household Guide to Dying.
Here’s a little more info on The Hotel Albatross.
The Captain and his wife accidentally find themselves managing the Hotel Albatross. The Captain floats between the hotel’s various bars: chatting to and chatting up customers, breaking up fights, and dealing calmly with the simmering tensions of a small town. His wife has her hands full with the day-to-day running of the hotel: mediating between family members fighting over wedding decorations, appeasing disgruntled staff members and dealing with the horror of what lies in room 101. She dreams of getting out…
If you would like to win a copy of this book tell us about your most bizarre hotel experience.
Send your answers to courses@spindriftmedia.com.au and please remember to include your name and postal address. Entries close 5pm Friday 22 May.
You can also catch Debra Adelaide at the Sydney Writer’s Festival, which is fast approaching. She’ll be at one session, Sweet Sorrow: Writing and Mortality on 19 May in Katoomba, and will also be leading a revision workshop called Murder Your Darlings at the State Library of NSW on 21 and 22 May.
