World Book Night 2012
Please inform your local ULR or a member of the ULF Project Team if you take part in this event.
If you love books and are keen to spread the message of how much fun they are, why not join World Book Night, a celebration on Monday 23rd April designed to spread a love of reading and books?
At the heart of World Book Night lies the simplest of ideas - that of putting a book into another person's hand and saying "This one is amazing, you have to read it".
World Book Night will see tens of thousands of people gift books within their communities to spread the joy of reading.
The 25 books that will be part of WBN 2012 in the UK have now been announced and applications are open to become one of the 20,000 givers.
This year givers will e distributing 24 copies each (480,000 books), with more books distributed directly to prisons and libraries through charitable partners.
To be a giver you must be:
- aged 16 or over and resident in the UK
- able to collect 24 copies of your book from your local bookshop or library
- committed to giving your books away on or around World Book Night to non- or light readers
Givers will be chosen based on where, to whom and why they want to give books away.
To apply to be a giver log on to the site and click on Sign Up To Be A Giver
Books Available
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Take by Martina Cole
Harlequin by Bernard Cornwall
Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Room by Emma Donoghue
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Misery by Stephen King
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
The Damned United by David Peace
Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neil Gaiman
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak