This month, for three lucky winners we have sets of:

• City of Sin, by Catharine Arnold (Simon & Schuster UK)
• We Die Alone, by David Howarth (Canongate)
• How I Escaped My Certain Fate, by Stewart Lee (Faber)
• The Marais Assassin, by Claude Izner (Gallic Books)

Each winner also gets a Bookhugger mug.

City of Sin, by Catharine Arnold

In the third book of her fascinating London trilogy, award-winning popular historian Catharine Arnold turns her gaze to the city’s relationship with vice through the ages. From the bath houses and brothels of Roman Londinium, to the stews and Molly houses of the 17th and 18th centuries, London has always traded in the currency of sex. Whether pornographic publishers on Fleet Street, or fancy courtesans parading in Haymarket, its streets have long been witness to colourful sexual behaviour.

We Die Alone, by David Howarth

In March 1943 a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from the Shetland Islands – the most northerly part of Britain – for Nazi-occupied Norway.Their mission was to organise and support the Norwegian resistance. They were betrayed and only one man survived the ambush by the Nazis. Crippled by frostbite and snow-blind, hunted by the Nazis, Jan Baalstrud managed to find a tiny arctic village. There – delirious, near death – he found villagers willing to risk their own lives to save him. David Howarth narrates his incredible escape in this gripping tale of courage and the resilience of the human spirit.

How I Escaped My Certain Fate, by Stewart Lee

In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making opera about Jerry Springer.

How I Escaped My Certain Fate details his return to live performance, and his cautious creep towards his position as the most critically-acclaimed stand-up in Britain.

Here is a blow-by-blow account of his snail-paced comeback, in the form of annotated transcripts of the three full-length shows that sealed his reputation, and details of his professional trials during the period.

The Marais Assassin, by Claude Izner

The fourth Victor Legris Mystery.

Parisian bookseller, Victor Legris, finds a new case to investigate very close to home, when his business partner’s apartment is burgled.

Curiously the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people have been murdered who were connected to to the goblet, Victor becomes convinced of its secret significance. How quickly can he recover it and end the killing spree, in a city beset with terrorist activity?

In this fourth case for the bookseller sleuth, Claude Izner offers a convincing portrait of a Paris shaken by anarchist bombings in the spring of 1892.

The Question

To win, answer one simple question, the answer to which can be found somewhere on Bookhugger…

• Question 1: What is the object that connects two dead people in Claude Izner’s The Marais Assassin?

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Terms and conditions

1. Closing date for entries: 8th September 2010.
2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
4. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
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1. Albert Megginson Says:
   September 1st, 2010 at 2:50 pm

   Interesting books on offer

2. Audrey Wright Says:
   September 7th, 2010 at 10:08 pm

   Love books, love the site

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