So, here we go. The very first World of Books Weekend Giveaway, and it’s a BIG ONE! We have over 150 books looking for a new home, all we need is some careful potential owners to come forward and stake a claim.
Newcomers may not be entirely aware of the rules, so here they are in brief:
1. All books are completely free, no postage or sneaky subterfuge
2. The competition is open until 6am on Monday
3. You can only win one book, but can make a first and second choice
4. Please, please, please use the form on this page below, for our sanity
5. The best reason given for wanting a book wins, so get stuck in
6. All we ask is that you share this with any friends, families, forums and followers because everything must go!
Pretty simple really. Now let’s get on to the matter at hand – the books:
| Nobody’s Child | Adie, Kate |
| Between the Assassinations | Adiga, Aravind |
| PS, I Love You | Ahern, Cecelia |
| Rosie Meadows Regrets | Alliott, Catherine |
| Gideon | Andrews, Russell |
| Excession | Banks, Iain M. |
| Wide Open | Barker, Nicola |
| This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy, General Fiction Books | Binchy, Maeve |
| Tara Road | Binchy, Maeve |
| The Return Journey | Binchy, Maeve |
| 3 Para | Bishop, Patrick |
| The Last Available Man | Blake, Cindy |
| Guernica | Boling, Dave |
| Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) | Bronte«, Charlotte |
| Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) | Bronte«, Charlotte |
| The Professor | Bronte, Charlotte |
| Do Ants Have A@#*holes?: …and 101 other bloody ridiculous questions | Bruno Vincent |
| Still Life | Byatt, A.S. |
| Create Your Own Cartoons | Byrne, John |
| The Stonecutter (Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 3) | Camilla Lackberg |
| The Stonecutter (Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 3) | Camilla Lackberg |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Chang, Jung |
| 4.50 from Paddington (The Christie Collection) | Christie, Agatha |
| Patriot Games | Clancy, Tom |
| The Innocent | Coben, Harlan |
| Touring Map – Scotland | Collectif |
| The Brass Verdict | Connelly, Michael |
| The Black Angel | Connolly, John |
| The Sharpe Series (7) – Sharpe’s Havoc: The Northern Portugal Campaign, Spring 1809 | Cornwell, Bernard |
| Predator (Scarpetta Novels) | Cornwell, Patricia |
| Atlantis Found | Cussler, Clive |
| The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Mr Willy Wonka: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”,”Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator” | Dahl, Roald |
| Ravens | Dawes Green, George |
| Captain Corelli’s Mandolin | de Bernieres, Louis |
| Roadside Crosses | Deaver, Jeffery |
| The Sleeping Doll | Deaver, Jeffery |
| The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse) | Dexter, Colin |
| Last Bus To Woodstock. | Dexter, Colin |
| The Way Through the Woods | Dexter, Colin |
| Jamaica Inn (VMC) | Du Maurier, Daphne |
| Ex-Girlfriends United | Dunn, Matt |
| Engleby | Faulks, Sebastian |
| Wedding Season | Fforde, Katie |
| Fowler: My Autobiography | Fowler, Robbie |
| Cold Mountain | Frazier, Charles |
| Notes from an Exhibition | Gale, Patrick |
| Memoirs Of A Geisha | Golden, Arthur |
| Diana: The Last Days | Gregory, Martyn |
| The Innocent Man | Grisham, John |
| The Appeal | Grisham, John |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Haddon, Mark |
| The London Train | Hadley, Tessa |
| The Return | Hislop, Victoria |
| Bad Heir Day | Holden, Wendy |
| 31 Bond Street | Horan, Ellen |
| How to Be Good | Hornby, Nick |
| Stormbreaker (Stormbreaker the Movie) | Horowitz, Anthony |
| Skeleton Key (Alex Rider) | Horowitz, Anthony |
| The Long Way Home | Howard, Audrey |
| The Hanging Garden | Ian Rankin |
| THE BLACK BOOK | IAN RANKIN |
| Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus Collection | Ian Rankin |
| Third Degree | Iles, Greg |
| The Holiday | James, Erica |
| Mr.Jones’ Rules for the Modern Man: How to Be a Modern Man | Jones, Dylan |
| Flesh and Blood | Kellerman, Jonathan |
| Target | Kernick, Simon |
| The Brightest Star in the Sky | Keyes, Marian |
| KIM. | KILING, RUDYARD. |
| Remember Me? | Kinsella, Sophie |
| Tigers in Red Weather | Klaussmann, Liza |
| The Darkest Evening of the Year | Koontz, Dean |
| Above Suspicion | La Plante, Lynda |
| Coolbrands 2008/2009: An Insight into Some of Britain’s Coolest Brands | Laura Hill |
| A Sea of Troubles | Leon, Donna |
| Small Island | Levy, Andrea |
| A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Lewycka, Marina |
| Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Deception (Bourne 7) | Ludlum, Robert |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
| Life of Pi | Martel, Yann |
| The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency | McCall Smith, Alexander |
| Morality For Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) | McCall Smith, Alexander |
| A Monk Swimming | McCourt, Malachy |
| ANGELAS ASHES : A MEMOIR OF A CHILDHOOD. | McCOURT. FRANK. |
| Trick Of The Dark | McDermid, Val |
| Atonement | McEwan, Ian |
| Shadow Man | Mcfadyen, Cody |
| The Good Life | McInerney, Jay |
| The Blackstone Key: Number 1 in series (Mary Finch) | Melikan, Rose |
| New Moon (Twilight Saga) | Meyer, Stephenie |
| The Recruit: Bk. 1 (CHERUB) | Muchamore, Robert |
| The Book of Unholy Mischief | Newmark, Elle |
| One Day | Nicholls, David |
| Perfect Man | O’flanagan, Sheila |
| Songs Of Enchantment | Okri, Ben |
| I Saw Esau (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak) | Opie, Peter & Iona |
| Himalaya | Palin, Michael |
| More Innocent Times | Parker, Imogen |
| The Beach House | Patterson And Peter De Jonge, James |
| Maximum Ride: The Final Warning (Maximum Ride Childrens Edition) | Patterson, James |
| Run For Your Life: (Michael Bennett 2) | Patterson, James |
| Kill Alex Cross: (Alex Cross 18) | Patterson, James |
| Postcard Killers | Patterson, James |
| The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family | Pelzer, Dave |
| Guilty Pleasures | Perry, Tasmina |
| My Sister’s Keeper | Picoult, Jodi |
| Doors Open | Rankin, Ian |
| Witch Hunt | Rankin, Ian |
| Dead Souls | Rankin, Ian |
| Let It Bleed | Rankin, Ian |
| Resurrection Men | Rankin, Ian |
| Exit Music: An Inspector Rebus Novel | Rankin, Ian |
| Numbered Account | Reich, Christopher |
| Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan 13) | Reichs, Kathy |
| Piranha To Scurfy And Other Stories | Rendell, Ruth |
| A Judgement In Stone | Rendell, Ruth |
| The God of small things | ROY, Arundhati |
| Just So Stories (Wordsworth’s Children’s Classics) | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Last Sunrise | Ryan, Robert |
| Netherwood | Sanderson, Jane |
| Barcelona Plates | Sayle, Alexei |
| UNDER THE EAGLE | Scarrow, Simon |
| The Gladiator (Roman Legion 9) | Scarrow, Simon |
| The Eagle’s Quest | Scarrow, Simon |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | See, Lisa |
| Timebomb | Seymour, Gerald |
| The Weight Of Water | Shreve, Anita |
| Skin Privilege (Grant County Series) | Slaughter, Karin |
| Tears Of The Giraffe | Smith Alexander McCall |
| The Accidental | Smith, Ali |
| Family Ties | Steel, Danielle |
| Eclipse | Stephanie Meyer |
| Dance Macabre – The Anatomy Of Horror | Stephen King |
| The Death Pit | Strong, Tony |
| The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House | Summerscale, Kate |
| Brooklyn | Toibin, Colm |
| The Potter’s House | Thomas, Rosie |
| The Rule Of Four | Thomason, Dustin |
| Girl from the South | Trollope, Joanna |
| The Art of War/The Book of Lord Shang (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) | Tzu Sun |
| 20,000 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Verne, Jules |
| The Overlord Protocol: H.I.V.E. 2 | Walden, Mark |
| Cricket’s Strangest Matches (Strangest Series) | Ward, Andrew |
| Before I Go To Sleep | Watson, S J |
| Marabou Stork Nightmares | Welsh, Irvine |
| The Works of Oscar Wilde | Wilde, Oscar |
| The Bridesmaid Pact | Williams, Julia |
| The Diamond Girls | Wilson, Jacqueline |
| TheShadow of the Wind by Zafon, Carlos Ruiz ( Author ) ON Oct-28-2004, Paperback | Zafon, Carlos Ruiz |
The Back Story
It is worth reiterating that each one of these books was destined to be recycled. Each week we intercept a selection of those that would have been pulped, either as a result of not being purchased within a timeframe or due to imperfections when being checked. With almost a million heading off to be repurposed every week, we aren’t short of choice.
There isn’t a great deal of science, just my own opinion of whether or not someone out there would give it another chance to fulfil its intended purpose.
We love books and we want as many books to survive as possible. While we are in the business of selling them, Take Your Pick Tuesday and World of Books Weekend Giveaway provide an opportunity for us to give perfectly good titles a second chance. It also enables us to give customers a chance to have something they want for absolutely nothing.
Sure, some of them may be a little beaten up or have an inscription on the front page, but that is often the charm of second-hand books. We don’t send anything that is too tatty to read, let alone present.
So that’s pretty much it: connecting books with book lovers. Unfortunately not everyone can win every time, but we certainly hope that it is something that our customers and newcomers alike can enjoy. If it inspires you to come back to World of Books again in the future, then that would be fantastic.
Nothing you Fancy?
If there’s nothing that really grabs your attention, but you have caught the book buying bug you can still take advantage of our 20% discount across all books. The Take Your Pick Tuesday code is still up and running, so just enter the following code in your basket to enjoy your discount:
TYPT110
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