The December Competition [closed]
The last competition of 2010, and three lucky winners will each win four great new books from our generous publishers
This month, for three lucky winners we have sets of:
- TV Go Home, byCharlie Brooker (Faber)
- Cold Light, by Jenn Ashworth, Proof edition (Sceptre)
- Simon’s Cat: Beyond the Fence, by Simon Tofield (Canongate)
- An Idiot Abroad, by Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, and Stephen Merchant (Canongate)
- Each winner also gets a Bookhugger mug!
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TV Go Home, by Charlie Brooker
TV Go Home began life in the late 1990s as an outrageously funny website by Charlie Brooker which parodied the Radio Times, and was turned into a book in 2001 when Brooker was still a relative unknown. It was a brutal and surreal satire of the world of TV, media and celebrity, written with Brooker’s trademark savage wit. Unavailable for some years, we are republishing it to reach his many thousands of new fans. In TV Go Home, visit a parallel world where reality TV and ‘new media’ have got completely out of control. Shows include Daily Mail Island, where inhabitants of a small island are force-fed the newspaper and become ever more outraged, an eternal version of Watchdog where viewers are invited to ‘phone in and complain about every single facet of every single object, product and service in the world’ and various extremely rude shows featuring Mick Hucknall’s testicles. Star of the book is Brooker’s famous creation Nathan Barley, pretentious Hoxton new-media type ‘whose very existence indelibly tarnishes the world’s already questionable track record’. Not for the faint-hearted, TV Go Home is a gloriously funny, filthy and spectacularly angry book.
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Cold Light, by Jenn Ashworth
I’m sitting on my couch, watching the local news. There’s Chloe’s parents, the mayor, the hangers on, all grouped round the pond for the ceremony. It’s ten years since Chloe and Carl drowned, and they’ve finally chosen a memorial – a stupid summerhouse. The mayor has a spade decked out in pink and white ribbon, and he’s started to dig.
You can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong. But I’m the one who knows straightaway that the mayor has found a body. And I know who it is.
This is the tale of three fourteen-year-old girls and a volatile combination of lies, jealousy and perversion that ends in tragedy. Except the tragedy is even darker and more tangled than their tight-knit community has been persuaded to believe.
Blackly funny and with a surreal edge to its portrait of a northern English town, Jenn Ashworth’s gripping novel captures the intensity of girls’ friendships and the dangers they face in a predatory adult world they think they can handle. And it shows just how far that world is willing to let sentiment get in the way of the truth.
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Simon’s Cat: Beyond the Fence, by Simon Tofield
Simon Tofield returns with a charming follow-up which sees the adorable but incorrigible cat embark on a series of adventures beyond the garden fence. Sharply observed and beautifully drawn, this new book promises to be an even bigger hit than the first.
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An Idiot Abroad, by Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, and Stephen Merchant
Karl Pilkington isn’t keen on travelling. Given the choice, he’ll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, at a push, eat English food on a package holiday in Majorca. Which isn’t exactly Michael Palin, is it? So what happened when he was convinced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to go on an epic adventure to see the Seven Wonders of the World? Travel broadens the mind, right? You’d think so… Find out in Karl Pilkington’s hilarious travel diaries.
The Question
To win, answer one simple question, the answer to which can be found somewhere on Bookhugger…
- Question 1: When was TV Go Home originally turned into a book?
Terms and conditions
- Closing date for entries: 10th January 2011.
- 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.
December 20th, 2010 at 11:53 am
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December 21st, 2010 at 5:52 pm
in the cold light of day i may look like an idiot abroad but can go home to tv and beyond the fence read karls adventures while smiling like a cheshire cat!
December 22nd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
With all this snow around, I can’t think of a better prize
December 22nd, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Just the thing for a cosy night in.
January 10th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
an epic list to look forward to reading in a parallel world!