Exciting developments here at Lizzy’s bit ….
You may remember that I was enchanted by Mari Strachan’s The Earth Hums in B Flat. The novel has since made its way onto Amazon’s rising voices list. One to watch, obviously. Mari has now agreed to a blog interview – one with a difference. This time you get to ask the questions!
Of course, I want you to read the book first. So Canongate have kindly agreed to giveaway 3 copies to UK readers. Names in comments please with 3 names to be randomly selected next Tuesday 14.04.09.
We’ll collect your questions to Mari in a separate post, which she will answer on Wednesday 6.5.2009 – giving you plenty of time to read the book and submit your questions. And for a couple of hours on that day, Mari will be available live to answer any followup questions, enjoy spontaneous blog conversation etc.
More information will be forthcoming as I have it (i.e as I work out how to do this with blog technology.) In the meantime, put your names in the proverbial comments hat for your chance at a copy of one of Lizzy’s favourite reads of 2009.
Imperium - Christian Kracht
My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
Summerhouse, Later - Judith Hermann
When the Professor Who Got Stuck in the Snow - Dan Rhodes
Passenger 23
The Book of St Andrews
Pure - Andrew Miller
The Man in the High Castle - Philipp K Dick
A Doppelganger with Aquis Submersus - Theodor Storm
Confusion - Stefan Zweig
The Rain Maiden and Other Fairy Tales - Theodor Storm
The Last Bear - Mandy Haggith
Faust - A Tragedy in Two Parts - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Emperor of Ice-Cream - Dan Gunn
Whispering Shadows - Jan Philipp Sendker
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin - Georges Simenon
On Glasgow and Edinburgh - Robert Crawford
Jellyfish - Janice Galloway
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Alice In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Dark Heart of the Night - Leonora Miano
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
Viper Wine - Hermione Eyre
The Girl on The Train - Paula Hawkins
Wallenstein - Friedrich Schiller
In the Beginning was the Sea -Thomas Gonzalez
Munich Airport - Greg Baxter
Rise - Karen Campbell
The Lie - Helen Dunmore
Crime Novel - Petri Tamminen
A Tabby Cat's Tale - Han Dong 
Family Heirlooms - Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares 
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The Franchise Affair - Josephine Tey 
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen 
Glass - Alex Christoffi 
The Miniaturist - Jesse Burton 
The Temporary Gentleman - Sebastian Barry 
Under The Tripoli Sky - Kamal Ben Hamada
The Blue Room - Hanne Orstavik 
Greenbanks - Dorothy Whipple 
Losing It! - Helen Lederer (2015)
The Pierced Heart - Lynn Shepherd (2014)
Oh this is one book that I am really desperate to read so do please put me in for this drawer. I think all the reviews that I have seen of it have been really really positive!
I’ve read yours and dovegreyreaders reviews, would love to read this book. So please put my name in the draw. And looking forward to Mari’s blog interview
I am already intrigued by this book – please put my name into the hat!
Oh why not? It sounds like a good read to me. Thanks for the opportunity
Please add me to the list. I heard a couple of extracts on Radio Four and want to read the book.
This sounds like a good book. Would like to read this one. Please put me into the draw.
Giveaway now closed.
I used a random sequence generator to pick the winners.
Random Sequence Generator
Here is your sequence:
3 1 5
6 2 4
Timestamp: 2009-04-15 11:57:13 UTC
The top 3 numbers win copies of the books.
Congratulations Simon S, fleurfisher and Lesley. Please email your details to lizzysiddal@yahoo.com and we’ll get your world humming along too.
Hope you’ll join in on the Q&A.