Win a copy of Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones

Hand Me Down World is the new book from Lloyd Jones, the best–selling author of Mister Pip. It will be released in the UK on the 11th November, but I have
10 limited edition copies to give away to readers of my blog.

These special books each have a unique identifier which enables you to log onto the Hand Me Down World Website. The idea is that each lucky recipient of the book will read it, leave their thoughts on the website and then hand it onto someone else. The journey of each book will be mapped and so the globe will hopefully become criss-crossed with the paths that copies of this book have made.

If you’d like to know a bit more about Hand Me Down World then I highly recommend that you watch this short video in which Lloyd Jones explains the plot and how he came to write it.

For a chance to read this book before its publication, please leave a comment below before 11am GMT on Friday 8th October.

This giveaway is open INTERNATIONALLY!!

Winners will be chosen at random and revealed on this blog shortly after the closing date.

Good Luck!

September Summary and Plans for October

September was a very slow reading month for me. I had several weekends away and I was so busy with various other projects that the month just flew by. I only managed to finish 9 books, which I think is a record low for me. I did manage to get a fair way through a few chunksters though, so hopefully my October tally will be larger.

Book of the Month

Books Reviewed in September:

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Bad Karma – David Safier

Young Hitler – Claus Hant

Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz

C – Tom McCarthy

Choo Woo – Lloyd Jones

Forgetting Zoë – Ray Robinson

The Elephant’s Journey – José Saramago

In a Strange Room – Damon Galgut

Corrag – Susan Fletcher

The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson (DNF)

Waiting for Columbus – Thomas Trofimuk (DNF)

Plans for October

I failed to make much of an indent on my September plans and so most have the books have been transferred straight from that list to this one:

Tinkers – Paul Harding

Solo – Rana Dasgupta

Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC – Bernard Cornwall

Paprika – Yasutaka Tsutsui

Wolf Totem – Jiang Rong

All My Friends are Superheroes – Andrew Kaufman

Stone in a Landslide – Muriel Barbal

I plan to join My Friend Amy’s Lonesome Dove readalong. I’ve had this chunkster on my shelf for far too long so it will be really nice to share the reading experience with lots of other bloggers.

I’m also currently working my way through The Dark Side of Love which is 800+ pages long. It is fantastic so far, but its length means that it will dominate my October reading.

On top of these I will also be working my way through a few more of Richard and Judy’s book choices.

There is no way I’ll be able to complete all these books in October, but I’ll have fun trying. I better get back to the reading……