The prizes in the Bookhugger Seduction Selection (TM) are guaranteed* to reduce the object of your desire to a blob of quivering jelly. If you win, you will be able to give them:

• A Rococo Heart Box No. 1 with mixed ganaches, courtesy of the lovely people at Rococo Chocolates
• A copy of Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie: Letters and Diaries 1941-1973, by Victoria Glendinning, from those soft-hearted folk at Simon & Schuster. The love affair between the writer Elizabeth Bowen and the elegant and charming Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed quickly after their first meeting in 1941 and continued over the next three decades until Bowen’s death in 1973. Theirs was a passion that flourished in the heightened, dangerous atmosphere of wartime London that Bowen wrote about so vividly in her novels. When Ritchie’s diplomatic career took him further afield – to Paris, Bonn, New York and Ottawa – the lovers wrote to one another continuously, sharing their hopes and fears, their boundless affection for one another, and their longing to be together again. Published for the first time in this exquisite volume, accompanied by extracts from Ritchie’s remarkably candid diaries, the love letters of Elizabeth Bowen reveal a passionate, intelligent, eloquent, strong-minded and wonderfully funny woman. They also reveal a man bewitched by her writer’s mind and imagination, and by her adoring vision of him as a greater man than he ever felt himself to be.
• A bottle of Cloudy Bay Pelorus NV – which has a deliciously crisp palate displaying toasty, creamy complexity, enhanced by a lingering nutty finish (make sure you tell your beloved that when you give it to them).
• From those old romantics at Faber & Faber, we have The New Faber Book of Love Poems, so you can stand beneath the balcony and woo the object of your desires. James Fenton, a Whitbread-winning poet praised for his own love poetry, gathers together the best lyric poems originating in the English language. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, the book contains a fantastic mix of classics and popular favourites, as well as blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics and Broadway songs. There are poems by men about women, women about men, men about men and women about women.
• Lastly but not leastly, those lovestruck lovelies at Canongate Books think that the works of Dan Rhodes are the way to the heart of your beloved, so they have given us a set of his books. You can win Little Hands Clapping, Timoleon Vieta Come Home and Anthropology. Anthropology, especially, could be useful in your Valentine’s planning, consisting as it does of  of 101 stories, each around 120 words in length, and all working highly surreal variations around a single theme: relationships. A simple enough idea which is superlatively executed – the range and inventiveness of the texts within the strict format reveal a writer of formidable imaginative powers, able to move with ease from wit to farcical comedy to genuinely heartfelt evocations of loss and love. Each story is almost like a condensed novel, a distilled narrative that focuses on a particular moment, gesture, or conversation, humourously unravelling the fragile structures and barely disguised inequalities that characterise the détente between the sexes.

To win this bumper haul of wonderfulness for the object of your affections (or, if you fancy a night in easting chocs and drinking fizz while reading a book, yourself), just answer the following question:

Which of these foodstuffs does NOT have a reputation as being an aphrodisiac:

• Oysters
• Oranges
• Dark Chocolate

Terms and conditions

1. Closing date for entries: 7th February 2010.
2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
3. Open to persons over 18 years of age only
4. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
5. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
6. Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookhugger. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
7. The winner’s name(s) may be published on the Bookhugger website after the closing date of the competition.
8. The competition is not open to Bookhugger employees and their families, or to employees of Bookhugger publishers and their families, or to employees of Rococo Chocolates and their families.

* Not guaranteed

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   February 1st, 2010 at 6:46 pm

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2. Naomi allard Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 1:55 pm

   Lovely prize its mine!

3. Sue Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 3:05 pm

   Mmmmm chocolate and a good read My idea of heaven

4. Tracey Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 3:07 pm

   NOOOOOOO!! ITS ALL MINE!
   LOLOL XXX

5. korky Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 4:28 pm

   ooohh, it’s mine LOL x

6. Christine Northrop Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 5:10 pm

   mmm chocolate I live in hope

7. Al Mac Says:
   February 3rd, 2010 at 8:16 pm

   Don’t give it to Korky. She is an evil woman….

8. susan Says:
   February 4th, 2010 at 8:02 am

   books books and more books heaven for me,a yummy prize, good luck all …

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