As part of our ongoing celebrations for the launch of Twenties Girl, our lovely friends at Benefit will be hosting an exclusive VIP event with Sophie Kinsella on Tuesday 16th February in Spitalfields, London, and YOU could be there!
We have five pairs of tickets to the event to give away. The evening will kick off from 6pm and there will be complementary drinks & cupcakes, free makeovers & a demonstration on how to get the ‘Twenties Girl’ look, and a reading from the book by Sophie herself.
As if that’s not enough, each winner will also receive a copy of Twenties Girl signed by Sophie, and a luscious Benefit goody bag!
Now, because this is such an exclusive prize, you’ll have to do a little bit of work for your tickets. To be in with a chance of winning, you need to tell us in up to 140 characters why YOU are Sophie Kinsella’s biggest fan! The entries will be judged by Transworld Publishers, and the most original five chosen as the winners.
To enter, either:
Reply to our facebook post with your answer Tweet your answer. Make sure to tag your post with #sophiekinsella Email us at competition@transworld-publishers.co.uk with ‘I love Sophie Kinsella because…’ in the subject line
Terms and Conditions:
1. By entering this competition, you agree to accept and be bound by these terms and conditions.
2. This prize includes entry to the event, a signed copy of Twenties Girl in paperback and a Benefit goody bag. Travel to and from the event is not included.
3. This competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over who is a resident of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, except for employees of The Random House Group Limited (the promoter), their families and any other company connected with the prize draw.
4. The closing date for the competition is 5pm on Monday 8th February 2010. Entries that are illegible or received after the closing date will not be considered.
5. Events may occur that render the awarding of this prize impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the promoter and the promoter may, at its absolute discretion, vary, amend, suspend or withdraw the prize with or without notice.
6. The prize draw will be judged by the promoter within 1 day of the closing date and the winner will be notified by email and/or telephone.
7. The winner’s names will be available upon the promoter’s receipt of a stamped addressed envelope.
8. The promoter’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into in relation to the prize draw. No cash alternative will be offered.
9. The promoter’s contact details are: The Random House Group Limited, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA
Shutter Island is the new motion picture from Paramount Pictures, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sir Ben Kingsley and Michelle Williams. It’s based on the bestselling novel by Dennis Lehane.
We cannot wait to see this film! The book is a psychological tour de force with a twist that will knock you sideways, and is definitely worth reading before you see the movie.
If that’s not enough to convince you then watch the fantastic trailer:
Bored of the cold weather blues? Need something to perk up those long winter nights?
Well look no further! We have decided to host a stupendously good giveaway, giving one lucky twitterer the chance to win our entire, that’s our ENTIRE February publishing list. A whopping 24 books! Not only is that enough books to read two a month for the whole year, but has an incredible retail value of !! Hardbacks, paperbacks, fiction, non-fiction, all the new and exciting releases from Transworld Publishers.
The February list includes:
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Gone by Mo Hayder Life’s A Gamble by Roy Brindley Blue River, Black Sea by Andrew Eames Blood Money by Tom Bradby Superstress Solution by Dr Roberta Lee Peoplequake by Fred Pearce The Given Day by Dennis Lehane Eclipse by Nicholas Clee Control by John Macken I Sank the Bismark by John Moffat Rich Girl, Poor Girl by Valerie Wood The Trout Opera by Matthew Condon Bad Ideas? by Robert Winston The Poet’s Wife by Judith Allnatt Men: A User’s Guide by Kathy Lette Paperboy by Christopher Fowler Brisingr by Christopher Paolini The Other Family by Joanna Trollope Barefoot Over Stones by Liz Lyons Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes by Martha Stewart Raven: Sons of Thunder by Giles Kristian Hella Nation by Evan Wright
There is no longer any need to be confused as to what to read! And no hassle in going to shops and being beseiged by book covers. To enter just follow TransworldBooks and retweet the competition message www.twitter.com/TransworldBooks Not a member of Twitter? Why not join, it takes less than 3 minutes to sign up! The competition will run until the 7th February, UK residents only, books may have to be sent out in two boxes!
We’re delighted to hear that TNT have commissioned a new series based on Tess Gerritsen’s bestselling Rizzoli & Isles thrillers! The show will be airing in the US in summer 2010 and we’re hoping it will follow on UK screens shortly after.
With a working title of Rizzoli & Isles, Angie Harmon will be playing Jane Rizzoli, a Boston detective who works closely with medical examiner Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander).
Also starring in the series are Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) playing a recurring role as Jane’s mother, Lee Thompson Young (FlashForward), who plays Jane’s current partner, Barry Frost; Bruce McGill (Law Abiding Citizen) as Det. Vince Korsak, Jane’s seasoned former partner; Jordan Bridges (Dawson’s Creek) as Jane’s brother, Frankie, a patrol cop who hopes to become a detective; and Billy Burke (The Twilight Saga) as FBI agent Gabriel Dean.
Here’s what the show’s producers have to say:
“TNT is home to some of television’s most powerful female characters, and RIZZOLI & ISLES certainly fits that identity. We’re delighted to be working with Angie, Sasha and the rest of the talented cast of RIZZOLI & ISLES as well as the show’s outstanding production team, as we bring Tess Gerritsen’s vision to television.”
The Rizzoli & Isles Thrillers - have you read them all?
… help celebrate the launch of his brand new novel Sons of Thunder!! The lovely historical fiction author is launching his new book with the help of Goldsboro books on the 18th February. Never been to a book launch party? Nows your chance…
Posted by Ben Willis on January 20, 2010 at 1:34 pm
As we approach Belinda Bauer’s TV Book Club appearance on More4 this Sunday evening, it seems that television viewers aren’t the only ones setting their sites on the Transworld crime debut of 2010, BLACKLANDS.
Henry Sutton of the DAILY MIRROR said:
“Belinda Bauer has shifted the boundaries of what makes a truly gripping, terrifying thriller. Imagine Thomas Harris crossed with Kate Atkinson and you still won’t be close. Aside from a ridiculously assured prose style, and a superbly well-crafted plot, what Bauer does is to combine real and chilling psychological insight with top-notch, absolutely terrifying suspense… Right from the start you know you are reading something both new and with real guts… Bauer brilliantly brings to life both Avery’s deranged and unravelling mind, and Steven’s stoical yet naïve rational. The denouement, on a foggy Exmoor, will leave you breathless.”
Laura Wilson of THE GUARDIAN believes:
“This astonishingly assured debut, from journalist and screenwriter Belinda Bauer, for once lives up to the hype… Told in lucid, uncluttered prose, the description of the effect of this correspondence on both parties is genuinely chilling… With little in the way of graphic detail – Bauer is too good a writer to jerk us into the past with clumsy italicised flashbacks – Blacklands is a world away from the ‘torture porn’ school of crime fiction, and a hundred times more effective in terms of visceral impact….. Steven… is impeccably, even heartbreakingly, well-imagined… As well as detailing the frustrating powerlessness of childhood, Bauer also paints a vivid portrait of the rupturing effect of a child’s murder upon a family, with its aftermath of fractured, stunted people with only one reference point in their lives… a psychological tour-de-force about the cruelty of hope and, ultimately, the triumph of innocence.”
We are delighted to announce that, for the second year running, S. J. Bolton has been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark award for her fabulous crime novel Awakening! This is awarded on the 28th April as part of the prestigious Edgar Awards in the United States.
Congratulations to S.J.Bolton and if you haven’t picked up a copy of Awakening yet what are you waiting for!
‘S.J. Bolton has elevated herself to the High Priestess of English Rural Gothic. If she carries on like this she will have worshippers in their millions.’ - The Times
Christopher Fowler, author of the bestselling Bryant and May series of mysteries, has written a special Christmas story to get you all in the festive mood!
Bryant & May’s Mystery Tour
Early on Christmas Eve the Home Office called Arthur Bryant of London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit with an urgent request to attend the scene of a crime in King’s Cross. Bryant did so, then called his partner John May with instructions to meet him at 10:15am beside a bus stop in Marble Arch, but with no explanation as to why. It was muggy, grey and wet, not at all appropriate to the festive season, and May resented being dragged away from the PCU’s offices.
‘Ah, you got my message, good.’ The elderly detective hailed his partner with a wild whip of his walking stick, and nearly pruned a passing tourist. Bryant resembled a beady-eyed tramp more than an officer of the law. He had misbuttoned his shapeless brown cardigan and dragged a moth-eaten Harris tweed coat over the top of it. A sprig of holly protruded from his battered trilby, looking less like seasonal decoration than a sign that he had lately been trapped in a bush. ‘I got here ahead of time and had a potter through the German Christmas market in Hyde Park. Four pounds fifty for a knockwurst. They’re getting their own back for the war.’
‘You had your mobile with you?’ asked May, surprised. Arthur was three years his senior but several decades behind the rest of the world when it came to technology.
The buzz sweeping the Between the Lines office this Christmas is definitely centred on one thing, the haunting, heart-breaking and utterly addictive FALLEN by Lauren Kate. Not only does it look beautiful we just couldn’t put it down, it’s a fantastic example of the exciting new works coming out of the young adult scene. Look out for it on the shelves on the 17th December; its the first book in the Fallen series and we’re already looking forward to the next instalment!
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Instant. Intense. Weirdly familiar . . . The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before. Except that she can’t shake the feeling that she has. And with him – a boy she doesn’t ever remember setting eyes on. Will her attempt to find out why enlighten her – or destroy her?
Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, FALLEN is a thrilling story about forbidden love.
Hot off the press!
