Today I’m joining the blog tour for Street Sweeper. I’m hosting a giveaway with thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me on the tour and to the publisher for the giveaway prize.

Blurb:

London, 2002. When Almir, a twenty-one-year-old Kosovan ex-boy soldier, is relocated to London with a new identity, flashbacks undermine his ability to keep his job as a street sweeper. Then he meets Roland, a forty-year-old British Jamaican, a Council surveyor trying to escape his Pentecostal upbringing, and failed relationship with Shirl with whom he has a fifteen-year-old son.

Roland and Almir become closer as Roland offers first friendship, then sex, yet Almir remains secretive about his past, and struggles to identify as gay, forcing Roland to question their relationship. And who is Muzzafer, the name Almir repeatedly shouts out during frequent nightmares? As tension builds, Almir confronts his involvement in a war atrocity, which threatens to destabilise his sanity and his new UK life.

But, against all these powerful obstacles, Almir and Roland’s love for each other continues to grow. Is it strong enough to last?

Giveaway:

The publisher has kindly offered one copy for one lucky winner!

To enter the giveaway, simply follow me  at @bantambookworm (X) or @bantambookworm.bsky.social (Bluesky)  and repost the giveaway post. The winner will be picked at random after the closing date and contacted by X or Bluesky direct message so I can obtain their contact details for postage. I will only use contact details for this reason and will destroy them as soon as the prize has been dispatched. The closing date is 23.59 on Thursday 30th April 2026. This giveaway is open to UK based entrants only.

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Street Sweeper is available from Amazon.

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