Juxtabook

£30 voucher to spend on books to be won

A little reminder of our competitions - closing date is Monday - enter by email :

Competitions

We've two competitions for you including one for children.

1. Win a £30 gift voucher to spend on any books in our online shop

Answer the following three questions by email and if you're correct your name goes into our prize draw for the £30 voucher. Closing date - Monday 29th September

• As whom was the writer Mary Ann Evans better known?
• Which literary protagonist must deal with Grendel's mother?
• Which was published first: Parade's End (first pub. of Some Do Not ...), To the Lighthouse or Ulysses?

2. Children age 8-13 win a set of 6 Roald Dahl books for your school and a £10 gift voucher for yourself to spend in our online shop*.

 

Answer the following three questions by email with a parent or guardian and if you're correct your name goes into the draw for the set of group readers for your school and the £10 voucher. You must be aged 8-13 and have your parent's permission to enter. Doing research is allowed! Closing date - Monday 29th September.

 

• What is JK Rowling's first name?
• Where did Roald Dahl do most of his writing famously?
• Which was published first: The Secret Garden, The Wind in the Willows, or The Railway Children

*A parent or guardian will need to spend the voucher on your behalf. You should get the fun of choosing though!

 

You can also still use the code for a 30% discount off all orders via our website or direct by phone or email .

To order use the code website30 at the checkout. You can logout as a guest or, create a new account. Your old password won't work as this is a complete new system. Sorry.

The discount is off book prices only, postage is extra. It can be used as many times as you like until Monday 29th at midnight. Browse our categories for ideas on how to spend it!

Introducing our new online bookshop with lots of book competitions and offers

With enormous thanks to William, Clive and especially the brilliant Andrew at Crystal Thought we're delighted to say that our new website is up and running. We're really pleased with it and we hope you will be. Thanks too to Kathryn Widdowson whose wonderful photographs of our books which appear at on the homepage slider, make (we think!) the site look so stylish.

 

 

 

Read on for lots of news and offers including two competitions, a 30% off code, and a small free gift for orders during our official opening week...

There are:

• 100s of books with new lower prices
• Over 2000 books with re-written descriptions, new keywords, or new photos
• Nearly 1000 books newly added online

The big change is with keywords. Keywords now appear at the side of a book and are clickable meaning you can do cross-curricular searches very easily for concepts such as identity, democracy, stream of consciousness, mysticism, sexuality, Romanticism, taboo, etc.

The checkout should be much easier, and you can now checkout as a guest without having to mess about with passwords.

For bargain hunters we still have a £1 and under shelf, which has been joined by a £5 and under shelf.

We hope you'll like the new site so whilst you're looking about we're offering everyone a 30% code (scroll for details) for the next 7 days, and exclusively to newsletter and Juxtabook blog readers we're offering a mini pack of our CL Hawley Collectable Books Notecard Set with every order.

It is a new site and though it has been tested there may be glitches, so if you have any problems please let me know. Thank you for your patience.

 

30% off all orders until midnight Monday 29th September

Thank you so much for your patience and support during this transitional year for us. As a small thank you we're offering 30% off all orders via our website or direct by phone or email.

To order use the code website30 at the checkout. You can logout as a guest or, create a new account. Your old password won't work as this is a complete new system. Sorry.

The discount is off book prices only, postage is extra. It can be used as many times as you like until Monday 29th at midnight. Browse our categories for ideas on how to spend it!

 

Competitions

We've two competitions for you including one for children.

1. Win a £30 gift voucher to spend in our online shop

Answer the following three questions by email and if you're correct your name goes into our prize draw for the £30 voucher. Closing date - Monday 29th September

• As whom was the writer Mary Ann Evans better known?
• Which literary protagonist must deal with Grendel's mother?
• Which was published first: Parade's End (first pub. of Some Do Not ...), To the Lighthouse or Ulysses?

2. Children age 8-13 win a set of 6 Roald Dahl books for your school and a £10 gift voucher for yourself to spend in our online shop*.

 

Answer the following three questions by email with a parent or guardian and if you're correct your name goes into the draw for the set of group readers for your school and the £10 voucher. You must be aged 8-13 and have your parent's permission to enter. Doing research is allowed! Closing date - Monday 29th September.

 

• What is JK Rowling's first name?
• Where did Roald Dahl do most of his writing famously?
• Which was published first: The Secret Garden, The Wind in the Willows, or The Railway Children

*A parent or guardian will need to spend the voucher on your behalf. You should get the fun of choosing though!

The free gift is exclusively for our newsletter subscribers - but it is not too late to subscribe for book news and offers throughout the year to ensure you receive a pack with your order too.

Collectable Books Notecards - a gift from us

For every order placed by a customer registered to receive our email newsletter we will send a small free gift: a mini pack of three cards and envelopes from our collectable books notecard range, which is exclusive to us.

The cards are useful for all correspondence and can be given as a gift.

We have new cards added to the range so even if you've bought one of our packs before you may get something new to you.

Just place your order and we'll do the rest.

 

Book voucher competition and book offer reminders

A quick reminder that there is still time to enter the competition for a £15 voucher for my book sales website. The closing date for the draw is midnight UK time on 17th July 2010 and international entries are welcome.

You also have the rest of July to take advantage of two discount codes currently available which used together could save you 20%.

Competition Time

As part of the 10th birthday celebrations of C L Hawley Books I have a little prize draw for you. To win a £15 voucher to spend on my website just email me [email protected] with the answer to the following question:

What was the first name of the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë?

All right answers will go into a draw for the voucher. International entries are welcome and you don't have to be a customer or have commented on the blog before.

Please do NOT answer in the comments section!

The closing date for the draw is midnight UK time on 17th July 2010.

Good luck!

And the winner is ...

Alis!

Alis, if you drop me an email with your address then a signed first edition of Conceit will be on its way to you shortly!

Thank you to everyone who entered.

Book Giveaway Reminder

Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter this giveaway of a signed, hardback, first edition of Conceitby Mary Novik. You can read my review here.

If you would like to enter, you're are usually resident in the UK and you have a book blog please just leave message in the comments section saying that you want to enter (on this post or the original review), before midnight UK time on Wednesday 11th May. I'll do the draw and announce the winner the following day. Please leave a link to your blog too unless you know I know you have a blog.

Another giveaway

I have an awful lot of copies of Mandela's Books and the Strong-Room of Dreams: Reflecting on the Value of Literatureby Dennis Walder. It is the text of a lecture - a 27 page pamphlet - and is of interest to anyone studying Nelson Mandela, South Africa, the nature of reading (especially childhood reading), postcolonialism, political prisoners and Charles Dickens. It is an interesting side read to Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones for example.

If you would like a copy then leave me a message below and I'll contact you for our address. I have about 8-10 to giveaway and I am happy to post anywhere in the world.

You can read the full catalogue description on my website here (but don't order there unless you want to pay for it!).

Buy A Friend a Book Week Giveaway

It is BAFAB Week again. This time I am offering a book with condition attached - to enter you must have a blog and be willing to review the book. The book was passed to me as a review copy and it seems only fair to pass it on that way. I am willing to post anywhere, so if you have ablog, would like to read and review The Harrowing by Robert Dinsdale then all you have to do is leave a comment below.

If you have BAFAB Week giveway on your own blog leave a message and I will add a list of links to giveaways later in the week.

BAFAB Week book giveaway

A bit late in the week but here it is - BAFAB week again. To enter this draw for a book please leave a comment below answering the following:

If you were writing a novel (any genre) including a real author as a character who would it be and why?

If you are hosting a draw yourself please let me know and I will compile a list of links.

Juxtabook's draw will take place on Monday. Please get your entries in the comments section before the end of Sunday 12th July. Thank you!

I am happy to post any where in the world.

Edited to add:

Another late BAFAB giveaway is hosted by Lissa here and a blogoversary giveaway is being hosted by Teresa of Shelf Love here.

And the winner is...

...Molly, who recommended The Book Thief as her new classic. Thank you to everyone for your entries. The answers to the question make a  great to-be-read list. Molly, do get in touch, I have emailed you so you should have my email address, if not leave a comment and I will try again!

On a different note... I came a cross something on the Picador blog which might be of interest. It is the description of the modern paper trail left by publishing a book, and details the sorts of things that Picador archive. I thought other might be intrigued so if you haven't read it already you can do so here.

Giveaway reminder

Just a quick reminder about our book giveaway. The question is, "What recently published book do you think deserves to become a classic in Time?" To enter this draw, for a surprise book, just answer that question in the comments below or on the original post before midnight on Wednesday April 8th.

There are a number of other giveaways on this week so might also like to visit:

Cornflower

Save Ophelia

Kiss a Cloud

Savidge Reads

Edited to add, there is also a draw at Farm lane Books which you might like to visit:

Farm Lane Books

BAFAB giveaway

It is Buy a Friend a Book Week again and I am running a giveaway. Amongst Simon's questions that I answered yesterday I think the most interesting was "What recently published book do you think deserves to become a classic in Time?" To enter this draw, for a surprise book, just answer that question in the comments below before midnight on Wednesday April 8th.

I will announce the winner on April 9th. I am happy to post anywhere in the world. Also, if you are hosting a BAFAB draw yourself please let me know and I will do a round-up mid-week with links to all the draws that I know about.

And the winner is ...

Thank you very much for all your entries. No fancy random number generator here just good old fashioned pen, paper and husband's fishing hat as a convenient receptacle for the draw. Mr J pulled out of the hat...

Cornflower!

If you'd like to get in touch with your address Bluebeard's Egg will be winging its way to you soon!

Thank you again to everyone who entered.

BAFAB Round-up

Just a reminder about thedraw for a copy of Margaret Atwood's Bluebeard's Egg. You have until the end of Wednesday 8th October UK time to enter the draw. You can enter here.

A round up of the some of the other draws about at the moment:

Books4All

Nonsuch Book

In the Spring it is the Dawn

and at Musings from a Muddy Island there is a different kind of competition.

If there are any draws that I've missed out please let me know.

Buy a Friend a Book Week - Book Giveaway

It is that time again - BAFAB week. So in honour of Short Story September and BAFAB week I am giving away two collections of short stories both by Margaret Atwood: Bluebeard's Egg and Dancing Girls. They are 1980s paperbacks with the rather jolly Sally Geeve designed covers. I am giving away Bluebeard's Egg on here, and Dancing Girls on the other blog to which I contribute, Books4All.

To enter the draw for Bluebeard's Egg just leave a comment below telling us what the last short story you read was called. To enter the other draw pop across to Books4All. You have until the end of Wednesday 8th October UK time to enter both draws.

If you are running a BAFAB draw on your own website or blog then let me know as I will do a round up of all the draws in a few days.

As to the last BAFAB weeks draws I was lucky enough to win a copy of Paradise by A. L . Kennedy from In the Spring it is the Dawn which has been wending its way here from Japan. So thank you very much for that.  I have never read any A. L. Kennedy and I am looking forward to it. At first glance her prose seems unpredictable and hard-edged but she pulls you into the narrative from the beginning:

In one fist I notice, I'm holding a key. Its fob is made of vicious green plastic, translucent and moulded to a shape which illustrated what would happen if a long dead ear were inflated until morbidly obese I only know that it's actually meant to be a leaf, because it is marked with an effort towards the stem, the ribs and the veins that a leaf might have. I presume I am supposed to like this key and give it the benefit of the doubt because people are fond of trees and, by extension, leaves. But I don't like leaves, not even real ones.

I will let you know how I get on with it.

BAFAB - And the winner is ...

Borrowed daughter's fetching sun hat...

Stirred the entries about...

And drew out....

Emily'smother!

So please drop me an email and let me have your posting address and the book and cards will be off to you soon!

Thank you very much to everyone else for entering.

BAFAB Round-up

A quick round up of some of the BAFAB giveaways about on the blogosphere:

Musings from a Muddy Island - which turned 1 yesterday. Happy Blogoversary Juliet!

Write from Karen

In Spring it is the Dawn

Books4All

Oxford Reader

Cornflower

Some of the draws finish quite early so don't delay your visits. And Juxtabook's draw can be found here. Anyone may enter Juxtabook's draw, you don't have to have a blog, or have commented here before, and I am happy to send internationally. Thanks to everyone who has entered already.

Edited to add a few more giveaways:

Stuck in a Book

Shelf Love

Random Distractions

and coming up on the outside Books, Mud and Compost

Buy a Friend a Book Week and more on Haworth

Prize draw 1: As BAFAB week is fast approaching it seems fortuitous that I have a copy of The Road to Haworth. This little hard back volume covers the Bronte story in Ireland (facts, not a fictional version) and I am offering it as a prize. It is secondhand (I am a used book dealer after all) but I also have a small selection of mint postcards from the Bronte Parsonage Museum Shop which I will include as well. The postcards show interiors of the parsonage plus the famous Apostles cabinet which is mentioned in the red room in Jane Eyre. To enter all you have to do it leave a comment on this post.

Prize draw 2: I also contribute to the Ibooknet blog Books4All and on there I am offering a paperback novel. It is fairly recent, it is literary and it is yours if you are first out of the hat after commenting on the appropriate post on the Ibooknet blog.

N.B. To enter both draws you have to comment on both blogs.

Lastly, returning to Haworth the photos were taken a few weeks ago, not when we went to the Simon Armitage reading, but when we went to see the Fay Godwin exhibition at the Museum. It is Fay Godwin whose photographs so beautifully illustrate Ted Hughes' Elmet.

I have a few more Haworth photographs which I shall add below as I know from the stats that many visitors here are from outside of the UK and may not know, or have a Chance to see the landscape that it is so important to the Bronte novels. Most of them are just shots of the countryside. You'll notice that there are plenty of trees; Mrs Gaskell says otherwise. The difference is economic I think. The apparent barrenness of the area when Mrs Gaskell was there was not just her famous exaggeration, but also the over-grazing of land and over-felling of trees caused by having a fast increasing and very poor population.

The first photograph is of the parsonage from behind and above from the conservation meadow. The rest are snaps of the outlook from Haworth and some features from within the village.