The October Competition [closed]
October’s competition offers three Bookhugger readers the sublime, and the ridiculous.
This month, for three lucky winners we have sets of:
- Obama’s Wars, by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster UK)
- Livin’ the Dreem, by Harry Hill (Faber)
- The Country Diaries, by Alan Taylor (Canongate)
- What The Hell Are You Doing?, by David Shrigley (Canongate)
- Each winner also gets a Bookhugger mug!
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Obama’s Wars, by Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward’s new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters, chronologies and meeting notes. It will focus on national security, especially the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the fight against terrorism. Woodward has structured the book to answer the questions: How does Obama govern? How and why does he decide? And how does he balance the numerous pressures of the modern presidency? Obama has learned that he is not commander-in-chief of the economy, and many of his high-profile reforms – such as health care, education and energy – have been turned over to Congress. But the president has realized he has almost total authority as commander-in-chief. Woodward thinks of the book as conceptually titled, The Crucible: Obama at War. Filled with intimate details and verbatim accounts that come from meticulous reporting, this is an unprecedented look at a young president in the 21st Century.
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Livin’ the Dreem, by Harry Hill
Harry Hill’s unexpurgated diary of his year promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration. Think Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price. This frank and sometimes controversial diary details one hectic year in the eye of the showbiz storm, cut with a heavy mix of the day-to-day goings-on in Bexhill, where Harry lives at home with his mother and occasional Filipino fiancée, Lay Dee. Follow the near fatal goings-on during Harry’s filming of Britain’s Most Dangerous Roads, his attempts to become a judge on X Factor and his struggle to meet the Welsh chanteuse Duffy at Warwick Avenue. Read of his dog’s ongoing battle with the bottle, and how he is sacked from the sniffer staff at Gatwick Airport due to sexual harassment. Learn how Harry’s Nan gets on in her holiday home in Iraq, her affair with the milkman and her subsequent struggle to have fun whilst living on a curfew.
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The Country Diaries, by AlanTaylor
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages through music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest – from Rev Gilbert White’s journal of life at his famous home in Selborne, to Beatrix Potter’s holiday diaries from Perthshire. Elsewhere, the thoughts of Dorothy Wordsworth and John Fowles rub shoulders with the words of Alan Clark and Queen Victoria. Together these private records paint a rich and surprising picture of a landscape and a way of life we think we know so well.
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What The Hell Are You Doing? The Essential David Shrigley, by David Shrigley
A beautifully designed and darkly comic collection of work, The Essential David Shrigley collects together the best of Shrigley’s work, old and new. It is a celebration of the surreal world of one of our finest contemporary artists.
If you’re looking for a humour/art crossover, then David Shrigley’s stuff is spot on. Harry Hill
David Shrigley is probably the funniest gallery-type artist who ever lived. Dave Eggers
An artist who achieves that rarest of phenomena: the capacity to make his audience view the world in his terms entirely. Will Self
Weird, funny, abject, wise, silly, savage, moral and engaging. Independent
The Question
To win, answer one simple question, the answer to which can be found somewhere on Bookhugger…
- Question 1: How many books has David Shrigley published?
Terms and conditions
- Closing date for entries: 31st October 2010.
- 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.
October 31st, 2010 at 7:43 pm
comedy country and congress ..i know what the hell i’d be doing if i won these great reads!