Borders UK celebrate World Book Day
Over the years World Book Day has become firmly established as the biggest annual event promoting the enjoyment of books, and this year is no exception with every Borders store hosting a range of in-store promotions and activities.
JP Hunting, Children’s Buyer at Borders UK, summed up the enthusiasm building for Thursday by saying: ""We’re really excited about this year’s World Book Day. Each Borders store will feature a front of store WBD display unit, and we have many events planned for this week. We will be promoting the back-lists of the biggest featured authors in our ‘3 for 2′. There has been HUGE demand from our stores who have arranged some really great events and school parties for the 5th. Borders always gives its full support to literacy events like this, and we’re sure that this year’s WBD will be the most successful yet. If I had to pick my favourite from this year’s selection, it would have to be the Mr Gum / Beast Quest title; it’s an exciting combination of two of my favourite series, and I’ll be picking up my copy on Thursday!"
One of the event highlights is the exclusive London appearance of Marian Keyes at Borders Oxford Street at 1pm on Thursday lunchtime. The undisputed ‘Queen of international women’s fiction’ will be at the store with the fastest rising and hottest ‘must hear retro diva’ VV Brown. Elsewhere, at Borders Islington, there will be stories and activities based around a selection of special new World Book Day stories, visits from schools and by World Book Day authors Cathy Hopkins and Jenny Valentine. And at Borders Preston, bestselling local children’s author Joseph Delaney [link to biography] will be in store talking about the ‘Spook’ series (Wardstone Chronicles) and the latest title written especially for World Book Day, ‘The Spook’s Tale’.
Information about all Borders World Book Day events can be found at www.borders.co.uk/local
Posted: March 7th, 2009
Author: Floresiensis
Categories: Joseph Delaney
Do you have something to add to this post? Please leave a comment
Book of the Month
Apartment 16 by Adam Nevill
Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it’s been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever.
Latest interviews
Interviews plus question and answer sessions with authors, narrators and publishers.
Must-reads
The following reviews are of books that begin the very best fantasy series available.
Competition: Win a signed copy of Graham Hancock's Entangled
Graham Hancock is the author of The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis, Heaven's Mirror, Supernatural and other bestselling investigations of historical mysteries. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages and have sold over five million copies worldwide. Written with the same page-turning appeal that has made his non-fiction so popular, Entangled is his first work of fiction. We have five signed copies of Entangled to give away as prizes. Email us the answer to the following question and the lucky winner, chosen at random, will receive a copy of the book, signed by the author.
Special Feature: Fantasy Book Review talks to the Book View Cafe
Book View Cafe is a cooperative site created by a group of writers - including internationally renowned authors Katharine Kerr, Ursula Le Guin and Vonda N. McIntyre - who want to take advantage of the internet's possibilities for reaching a wider audience and to distribute their work directly to their readers. The Book View Cafe is a place where you can find free, original fiction plus the authors' best and out-of-print work for a fee. Fantasy Book Review spoke to Book View Cafe member, science fiction author and memoirist Chris Dolley in February 2010.
Special Feature: Understanding the author of Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, the elusive author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, has been the subject of enduring fascination for the past hundred years. The destruction of many major documents about his personal life by his descendants has only magnified the mystery. Jenny Woolf's biography, published to coincide with the release of the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland film, lays waste to the myths and suspicions that have obscured Carroll's reputation by placing him firmly in the context of his own time.
