This week, we are giving away a copy of the brand-new release 'The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple', by Corey Mead, courtesy of Pan Macmillan Australia.
'The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane’s long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him?
'Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London of the Bright Young Things. At a gin-soaked party, she met Bill Lancaster, fresh from the Royal Air force, his head full of a scheme that would make him as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster wanted to fly three times as far – from London to Melbourne – and in Jessie Miller he knew he had found the perfect co-pilot.
'The Lost Pilots is their extraordinary story. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, and full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal and tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction that firmly restores one of aviation’s leading female pioneers to her rightful place in history.'
To enter, tag a friend who'd love this book by 9am AEST, 18th June. (Australian residents only).
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