Competitions

Paul Auster and JM Coetzee have been writing to each other for a few years year on topics as diverse as baseball, Israel, writing, the economy and growing older – and the correspondence has been collected in a new book called Here & Now which you can win a copy of if you tell us the titles of Auster and Coetzee’s most recent books (as of 12/5/2013)…

Straight Flush, Ben Mezrich’s latest, tells the tale of a group of young mostly rich young men who decided to enter the world of online poker in search of the big bucks – only for the dream to blow up in their smug, privileged faces. You can gloat along with the rest of us and win yourself a copy if you tell us which Mezrich book was adapted by David Fincher (and we want the name of the book not the name of the fillum…)

Another tale of online big business is provided in Mike Power’s excellent Drugs 2.0 which shows us how the clever dealers are getting their merchandise into the world in the 21st century. You want one, tell us which Vince Gilligan TV show is set to conclude this summer…

Mighty Neil Gaiman returns with his first novel in some time, The Ocean at the End of the World – a book that will shoot to the top of our review pile just as soon as we get it. You have the opportunity to win yourself a copy if you tell us which famous series Gaiman is resurrecting before the end of 2013…

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened is the new sort of memoir by Jenny Lawson – you can win yourself a copy of the book that is earning plaudits from the likes of Neil Gaiman and Caitlin Moran if you tell us the name of the blog Moran authors…

Khaled Hosseini is also back with a novel called And the Mountains Echoed which will undoubtedly be read by everyone on the planet (who reads) by the end of the year, such is the sway of Hosseini in these post-Kite Runner days. You want the chance to win a nice hardback edition, tell us who directed the movie of The Kite Runner…

The author of The Time-Traveller’s Wife is back with another off-kilter tale (about a postman who falls in love with a raven, no less) featuring her own illustrations. To win one, tell us which if her previous works featured Clothilde, Ophile and Bettine…

Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Roundhouse, drew praise from Philip Roth who, inbetween declaiming on the death of the novel and the fact that he couldn’t be bothered reading or writing fiction anymore had read The Roundhouse and liked it very much. Which is high praise indeed obviously. You want one, tell us the title of Erdrich’s debut…

We also have a few copies of The Prisoner of Heaven, the latest from Carlos Ruis Zafon and the third book in a trilogy – to win a book, tell us what the name of the series is…

Last but not least, we’ve managed to persuade those nice people at Picador to give us three copies of Qais Akbar Omar’s A Fort of Nine Towers, a memoir concerning Qais’ upbringing in Afghanistan. To win a copy, tell us which city Qais grew up in…

Please send your answers (with the name of the book in the subject heading) to bookmunch.comps@gmail.com. Closing date for entries is 30 June 2013