Double Bubble Thursday – 2 book giveaway!
The competition has now closed, and our winner is… Jackie (Farm Lane Books)! We hope you really enjoy your prize Jackie. Please email us at hello@bookrabbit.com with your address details or DM us at Twitter.com/TheBookRabbit and we’ll get your prize in the post.
Thank you everyone for entering – as always, we loved reading your comments. We’ll be doing another book giveaway soon so don’t stray too far from the Warren.
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Lionel Shriver is the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. We have a signed copy of this, and her recently re-released novel A Perfectly Good Family – to give away. Here they are on the desk (not the banana, touch that and you lose a limb – I haven’t had lunch yet).
For a chance to WIN…
…simply check out Lionel’s biog and exclusive Q&A, and tell us the most interesting thing you discovered about the author – post it here on our blog.
Entry is open to all – rabbits and humans alike – and we’ll pick a winner on Monday at 5pm (this is becoming a regular thing – like Crackerjack – only slightly less frantic, and without the gunge. Though we do have a banana).
Good luck!
Do we get the banana as well or only the books?
She changed her name at the age of 15… My first reaction was that it’s very young to take such a decision, but I like the reason
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What the hell, we’re feeling generous – you can have the banana as well. The banana depicted may not be the banana you receive, no bananas have been hurt in the making of this competition…
That her favourite childhood book was The Little Princess. It is my daughters current bed time fave.
i would love to win the books too please
Great! Tell us something about Lionel that interests you and we’ll throw you in the mix
Here’s a few that caught my attention…
“I’m naturally perverse!”
“[I] plan to will whatever assets remain … to the … Library”
But most touching, on discussing A Perfectly Good Family:
“Accustomed to trying to win the approval of my parents, I underappreciated how much parents yearn for the approval of their children, too.”
Am I allowed to entry or would that be greedy?
This interested me:
Do you have a guilty pleasure read?
Cookbooks. And Nick Hornby.
Never thought to see cookbook as a guilty pleasure reading. How do you get pleasure from cooking (or am I be too honest here??
I was surprised that she said authors “download failed software and cry a lot”
We Need to Talk About Kevin is one of my favourite books – I would love to win a signed copy of it!
Ahem… I was a bit surprised that she was a woman… because I thought Lionel was only a male name! Hehehe. I’ve never read one of her books, so it’s not like I could’ve checked out her picture on the book jacket or anything.
Anyway, the most interesting thing I learned that she considers Nick Hornby a guilty pleasure read… I do wonder why?
I liked her replies to the Q&A, she comes across as a regular person whose job it is to write books and I like that about an author. In particular I liked her response to the question regarding writing rituals – very down to earth and no nonsense. “Get on with it” is a great mantra for all of us who are inclined to dither at times!
most interesting thin in the interview…jazz drummist. not a drummer then, is it a special jazz thing?
Oh and also i didn’t know she was a she until i read it
Hi. ‘We need to talkabout Kevin’ was selected for the ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ television book club. This surprised Lionel as her other books were only moderately received…… Fab prize by the way!
As if by magic you’ll find it’s changed to ‘jazz drummer’ – we too thought it was a special jazz thing – but no, jazz folk apparently have drummers, just like the rest of us mere musical mortals.
Glad you like the prize Maggiee – only 5 and a half hours to wait and see if you’re the lucky bunny!
That, in effect, she gave up her family for the sake of art…
That she is actually a girl called Lionel
Good reason to change your name though
That she changed her name to Lionel because she was a tomboy…when I first heard of her I thought it was a man!
Fingers crossed for winning the books! xx
Interesting – she is terrified of digital publishing
Can we win the post-it notes?!! Nxxx