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Hey everyone,
To celebrate the release of the superb A Room Full of Bones in paperback we’re having a whole week of Elly related stuff on the blog.
There’ll be some fab interviews and videos as well as an amazing competition or two to test your own detection skills and knowledge of this amazing series of book.
So stay tuned! But, to kick things off, here is a free extract from the book to give you a taste of what to expect:
You can also learn more about Elly and the other books in the series by heading over to the author’s official website or our own dedicated author page.
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for, as we announce the winner of our Christmas Qword competition.
Thank you all want-to-be winners for sending us your entries.
However, to lift a line from Hollywood, ‘THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE’.
And that lucky person is Darren Hartwell from Berkshire.
Congratulations, Darren, a Stieg Larsson hardback boxset is on its way to you as we speak!
Think you’re a true word nerd? Well, sharpen your brains, ’cos it’s time to prove it.
We’re putting our money where our mouth is and giving away a limited edition Millennium Trilogy hardback boxset.
For a chance to win this prize, all you need to do is solve our hard-as-nails ‘Qword’ anagram crossword.
(Click here for the Printable pdf)
To enter, email your answers to qword@quercusbooks.co.uk or post them to Qword, Quercus Books, 21 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2NS
Deadline for entries is 12pm on Tuesday 4 January 2011. The winner will be chosen at random from the correct entries, and announced on the Quercus blog on Friday 7 January.
Edie Quentance is the ugly duckling in a family of charming conformists. For generations, Quentance Bank has managed the wealth of its rich and aristocratic clients, and when Edie is pushed into joining the family bank, she finds the work very dull indeed.
She passes the time trying to uncover the truth about her great-grandfather Kit, whose love of the sea she has inherited. Kit Quentance was rumoured to have carried a fortune into the Titanic lifeboat with him – money that has never been found.
Edie’s excavations in the family archive unearth some shocking and far more recent secrets. She realises that Quentance Bank is not the paragon of old fashioned probity it pretends to be. As she tries to right her family’s wrong-doings, Edie’s position becomes increasingly dangerous. Her twin brother, her parents, her uncle – she no longer knows whom she can trust.
In September, when Louise Patten’s Good as Gold first hit the shelves, a number of journalists focussed on a shocking secret revealed in her novel: that the sinking of the Titanic could have easily been prevented.
The Titanic hit the seas at an exciting, transitional time for shipping. Old methods of seafaring were dying out (the so-called Tiller Orders) and more modern ways of sailing (Rudder Orders) were rolling out across the fleet. Tragically, if understandably, this, it is claimed, led to all sorts of confusion…
We have copies of Good as Gold to give away to seven lucky readers. All you need to do is leave a comment on our Facebook page, explaining what schoolboy steering blunder so tragically sunk the Titanic…
The results are in for our Stieg Larsson poster giveaway.
Below are the five lucky winners:
Erin Fitzsimmons
Lora McGinlay
John Bajada
Paul Sheath
Louise Rawlings
Congratulations, you five. The exclusive Quercusian goods are winging their way to you now.
