World Book Night

I am more than thrilled to announce that I have, infact, been chosen to be a Book Giver for this years World Book Night! For those who don't know what WBN is, let me enlighten you!

It is a very new organisation, this year marks it's second birthday, put together to celebrate books and reading, which will hopefully prompt more people to shut off the television and pick up a book (which we all need to do, even myself and I've got three books at the side of my pillow on a daily basis). 

Anyway, what happens is that twenty-five titles are chosen by a committee of book lovers; including authors, librarians, booksellers, and even book givers from last year's WBN, then they are printed by the thousands. The successful applicants then receive twenty-four copies of one of their book choices and distribute it to the general public through whatever means they like! To learn more about the night, or to just bookmark the page so you can participate next year go to: http://www.worldbooknight.org


This year the books are:
Pride and Prejuice - Jane Austen
The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Take - Martina Cole
Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell
Someone Like You - Roald Dahl
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Room - Emma Donoghue
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Misery - Stephen King
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Let The Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
The Damned Utd - David Peace
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
Touching The Void - Joe Simpson
I Capture The Castle - Dodie Smith
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak


It was extremely difficult to narrow it down to just three choices from the above list, when I already love a good fifty percent of them and the rest were (and still are) so tantalising. But somehow I managed it and was even lucky enough to get my first choice: Roald Dahl's (amazing) collection of dark short stories 'Someone Like You'

So come Monday April 23rd 2012 keep your eyes peeled for me in the streets of Manchester and you might just receive your very own copy.