The July Competition [closed]
This month’s competition has great prizes from all our publishers. In fact we think they’re such great prizes we’re sure you won’t mind digging around a little for the answers.
This month’s prizes are:
- Gallic Books have given us three signed copies of Checkout – A life on the Tills by Anna Sam
- Canongate are giving away two sets of Trick Baby and Pimp by Iceberg Slim
- From John Murray there are 10 signed copies of In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
- And from Faber we have their Poetry Essentials box set, limited edition and worth £50
How are we dividing this magnificent booty?
- The winner will get the Faber Poetry Essentials, and a signed copy of In Tearing Haste
- The next five people out of the hat will get signed copies of In Tearing Haste, and a choice of Checkout or the Iceberg Slim set
- Four more lucky people will get signed copies of In Tearing Haste
To be in with a chance to win, answer the following simple questions correctly. All of the answers can be found somewhere on Bookhugger.
- Question 1: Which of these is NOT one of the top 3 questions asked at the till in Anna Sam’s Checkout – A life on the Tills? ‘Where are the toilets?’, ‘Are you open?’ or ‘Can you carry that to my car?’
- Question 2: In what year and season do the opening scenes in Rory Clements’ Martyr take place?
- Question 3: For which journal had Grete been an Editor at Harvard in Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity?
- Question 4: Who is ‘The Daddy’ among Sceptre’s seven incarcerated writers?
- Question 5: In The Faber New British Crime podcast, Adam Creed talks about his main character DI Will ‘Staffe’ Wagstaffe. What does he have an interest in?
Terms and conditions
- Closing date for entries: 31st July 2009.
- Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
- Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
- The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
- Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookhugger. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The winner’s name(s) may be published on the Bookhugger website after the closing date of the competition.
- The competition is not open to Bookhugger employees and their families, or to employees of Bookhugger publishers and their families.
