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------------BOOKTRIBES.COM - WE ARE GIVING AWAY BOOKS EVERY DAY IN
MARCH------------
Greetings Booktribers
Call it March Madness if you like … or a cynical attempt to make our website "stickier". Either way, on each of the 31 days of next month, we shall be
awarding a copy of the new paperback of BLACK SWAN GREEN by David "Cloud Atlas" Mitchell to the writer of the best review-cum-comment posted that day. Black Swan Green is reckoned to be (by the nice people who are giving us the free copies) "a wryly funny, painfully astute, captivating foray into the black hole between childhood and adolescence."
Better still, at the end of the month, the Booktribes member who has posted the very best review-cum-comment of March will win a complete set of The Sceptre Collection – "21 classics for the 21st Century" in the words of the same nice people. You may need a new bookshelf to hold fresh editions of:
Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
Augustus by Alan Massie
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Restoration by Rose Tremain
Docherty by William McIlvanney
Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
Peter Cook: A Biography by Harry Thompson
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
The Long Firm by Jake Arnott
The Soldier’s return by Melvyn Bragg
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg – Giles Milton
Fred and Edie – Jill Dawson
Barcelona Plates – Alexi Sayle
McCarthy’s Bar – Pete McCarthy
Carter beats the Devil – Glen David Gold
Colour – Victoria Finlay
White Lightening – Justin Cartwright
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
Heavier than Heaven – Charles R Cross
So get commenting, reviewing, whatever you want to call it. Short, long, doesn’t matter. The most telling remarks are what count, and – since someone has to decide – we have taken it upon ourselves to be the judges.
By the way, David Mitchell is already a favourite at Booktribes. You could add to the discussion on Cloud Atlas here: http://www.booktribes.com/node/1178333
There’s more about how to win at http://www.booktribes.com so please take a look for further details. Check out the new celebrity top fives on the home page; get involved in the debate on the book of your choice at http://www.booktribes.com/booktalk; and please feel free to start your own book group.
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Good luck.
Paul Reizin
Editor, Booktribes.com