We are lucky bunnies. We know that. Because most days we hear the pleasing thud of several books for review landing on the door mat. If you’re a book lover, it’s the best sound in the world.
However, after choosing what we have time to review ourselves, then sending books to our BookRabbit reviewers, there is still a whole host of books desperate for a pair of eager eyes and a loving home.
Here is our ‘outta control’ TBR pile at the mo…
Does anything take your fancy?
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The competition is now closed. The five lucky winners (who must have been holding their lucky rabbit’s foot?) are… Keith B Walters, Rob (Rob Around Books), Jackie (Farm Lane Books), Rachel Taylor and Karen (Euro Crime). Congratulations! We hope you enjoy your prize. What a fantastic response we had – thank you all so much for entering. See you back here soon for more author interviews and competitions.
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He’s the man of the moment and we have an exclusive interview with him, along with a fantastic competition prize thanks to Bethan Jones at Random House who has given us FIVE SIGNED COPIES of Jo’s latest book, The Snowman to give away (thanks Bethan!)
Enjoy the interview. You can also find out more about Jo in his biography and read a review of his latest book. But whatever you do, don’t forget to enter the competition at the end of the interview!
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 We are big, bouncing fans of World Book Day down here in the burrow. The charity does fantastic work promoting literacy and the enjoyment of reading, particularly among children and young people. The more people who know about it, and support it, the better.
My niece and nephew (Jessica aged 8 – loves horse riding, sewing and her Build-A-Bear; and Bader aged 12 – loves computer games, his new iPhone Touch and anything to do with Formula 1 – and they both LOVE reading) were telling me this weekend what their school, Barfield Prep School, was doing to celebrate and promote WBD. As well as dressing up as their favourite character from a book, all the children have to create a Book Box. They choose a book that they love and fill a cardboard box with things about that book. They then present their box to the school and the other children have to guess what book their box represents.
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The competition has now closed. Congratulations to our 5 lucky winners: Mel Butcher, Tina Parnell, Maxine Grant, Shelia Goss and Jesica Sharon. We will email you all to confirm details.
Thanks to everyone for taking the time to enter. We hope you enjoyed the excellent interview that Dorothy gave us too. Coming next is an interview with Norwegian crime writer, Jo Nesbo, and possibly a little book giveaway too…
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Today we have the pleasure of welcoming bestselling author Dorothy Koomson to the BookRabbit warren. Dorothy’s lastest book, The Ice Cream Girls has just been released and already the reviews are excellent. You can find out more about Dorothy in her author profile, and enjoy this exclusive interview below. We also have 5 copies of The Ice Cream Girls to give away, courtesy of Sphere/Little, Brown. So make sure you enter the competition at the end of the interview!
BR: Welcome to BookRabbit Dorothy, and congratulations on a fantastic book – we finished it last night and thought it was a cracking read. Can you tell us how you would sum up your latest novel, The Ice Cream Girls?
Dorothy: I’m so glad you liked the book. The Ice Cream Girls is an emotional, intriguing look at some challenging subjects with a murder mystery subplot.
BR: The book deals with some incredibly dark issues including domestic violence, rape, mental cruelty – what compelled you to tackle such difficult and emotive subjects?
Dorothy: One of the best things about being a writer is having the chance to immerse myself in an emotionally difficult or challenging subject. With The Ice Cream Girls, I originally had an idea about two people who were accused of a crime but one went to prison and the other ‘got away with it’. They both claim to be innocent so who is telling the truth? As I thought the idea through, more elements of the story – such as domestic violence and the abuse of trust by an adult – cropped up.
My other books – to some extent – all deal with difficult subjects. Marshmallows For Breakfast, for example, dealt with alcoholism, and Goodnight, Beautiful dealt with mental illness.
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It’s a great week for new book releases with all sorts of exciting titles coming out. Today alone there’s the gripping new page-turner from Linwood Barclay, Fear the Worst (his No Time for Goodbye was a Richard and Judy hit); The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson (read a review here, we’re interviewing her next Tuesday); The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers by master storyteller Paul Torday and The Other Family, Joanna Trollope’s latest, and sure to be a bestseller. And as if that wasn’t enough, here’s what we have on the go at BookRabbit HQ…
Simon I’m reading Under the Dome by Stephen King, it’s an epic 900-page hard back and it weighs a ton! It’s trashy and I’m hooked, I used to read Stephen King books when I was a teenager so it’s a bit weird revisiting his stuff, and I feel it’s a bit ‘low-brow’ but I haven’t had the patience to tackle a book as big as this before so I thought I’d give it a go. In typical Stephen King style it’s about a small American town which is suddenly and literally cut off from the rest of the world by an invisible and mysterious barrier. On ‘Dome Day’, as it’s called, planes and birds crash into the barrier and people and animals in the place where the dome descends have bits chopped off! It’s a page turner though and I’m enjoying it so far.
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The competition is now closed. The 5 lucky winners of Jason’s latest book, Atomic Swarm, are: Jordan Duncan, Kimberley Stone, Sonia, Mar Dixon and Tozol. Congratulations to you all, we’ll email you for your addresses and get your books in the post. Thank you everyone for taking the time to enter and send us your brilliant gadget ideas. You never know, you might even see one appear in Jason’s next book… patent alert! patent alert! As always, there will be more interviews and competitions coming up soon. Have a good week!
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Interviewing Jason Bradbury – presenter of The Gadget Show on Five and author of the Dot Robot series – could be likened to downing an entire packet of extra strong mints in one sitting. He is a blast. A totally wired, fizzing, buzzing ball of infectious energy with plenty to say and not much time to say it in (he’s a busy, busy guy!).
We managed to get him to sit down for long enough to chat to him about his latest book in the series, Atomic Swarm, as well as… hoverboards, invisible coats, robots (naturally) and even asteroid mining in China (yes, really). If you’d like to hear all about it, plus more on his latest book, his hugely popular roadshows and his favourite ereader (who better to run us through them, than the UK’s leading gadget guru?) then read on. And there’s a fantastic competition at the end of the interview to win one of 5 copies of Jason’s latest book Atomic Swarm.
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