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Pocket Notebook giveaway

Pocket Notebook is published today, and to mark the release I have five copies of the book for YOU to win.

Pocket Notebook is the debut novel from serving police officer Mike Thomas. An angry black comedy, it follows PC Jacob Smith, tactical firearms officer, steroid abuser and gun obsessive, and his very public breakdown and subsequent fall from grace, all of which he meticulously records in his police notebook.

To win a copy of the book plus a very limited edition Pocket Notebook er…notebook, you have to head on over to watch the trailer, then answer me the following question:

What kind of police officer is Jacob Smith?

Answers in the comments below please, and I’ll draw five winner out at random at 5pm. NB Only comment once - if your comment looks like it’s disappeared it hasn’t, I need to approve it on our system before it is included. Rest assured, you’ll be entered! Good luck!

Pocket Notebook by Mike Thomas

Pocket Notebook trailer

The trailer for Pocket Notebook by Mike Thomas is here!

Pocket Notebook is out now. To order a copy go to rbooks, Amazon, Waterstones.com, Play, or find it at your local bookstore.

Windmill Review Round-up

Bloods a Rover

Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy

‘…it is a triumph; a dark, thrilling saga roaming from the ghettoes of LA to the boondocks of Haiti as assassins and FBI agents try to make peace with the havoc they’ve created.  Vivid as a nightmare.’ John Williams, Mail on Sunday

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A World by Itself by Jonathan Clark

‘…a compelling history of the British Isles to date, tracing political, religious and material cultures from the Romans to the present day, and focusing on the most dramatic moments of the last two millennia and the enduring questions of what it means to be British.’ Scotsman Magazine

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Pocket Notebook by Mike Thomas

Pocket Notebook is most certainly not run of the mill…Amusing, in a very black way…entertaining…There’s no doubt Mike Thomas can write very well indeed…he’s come up with a cracker of a read…Needless to say, Smith is heading for an especially bloody end. It’s who he’ll take down with him that provides the suspense, and the horror.’ Henry Sutton, Mirror

‘Arresting tale doesn’t miss a beat…Pocket Notebook might become cult reading in police circles, [but] it certainly isn’t about to become a recruit training manual.  This is an enjoyable black comedy that builds to an exciting climax.’ Tim Relf, Independent

 

dona-nicanora

Dona Nicanora's Hat Shop by Kristan Hawkins

‘Plenty of charm in this effervescently sweet novel - perfect for reading in the bath.’ Metro

bad-vibes

Bad Vibes by Luke Haines

‘It’s pretty much the best-written book I’ve ever read by a musician.  He has a superb deadpan style.  You will call people and read bits over the phone’ William Leith, Evening Standard

 

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

‘Incredibly vivid’ Press Association syndicated review

 Liaquat also wrote his ‘book of a lifetime’ piece in the Independent

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The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath

‘Brilliantly melds a factual post-war murder into a dark fictional tale’ Telegraph

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Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi

‘…a balanced, lucid narrative; a rich, complex account of this crucial part of Iranian history.’ Observer

‘A powerful memoir of Nafisi’s Iranian childhood, her mother and a homeland shattered by political revolution.’ The Times

The Return of the Twivaway - CLOSED

Welcome all followers new and old to Windmill - a shiny new site for a shiny new publisher. We want you to get to know what we’re all about, which is why we’re giving away five Windmill Books hampers*, each containing:

Plus:

A Windmill Books notebook, AND a set of fancy book postcards.

To win, all you have to do is tell me in the comments section below is: what pop duet featured in Mrs Ballard’s parrot vignettes? I’ll pick five winner at random in ten minutes - go go go!

A crop of great reviews for Windmill this week

Windmill Books picked up a number of great reviews this week, here are the highlights:

‘Witheringly funny … A rock memoir in the misanthropic vein of Lucky Jim‘ Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times

Read the full review

‘[A] cleverly plotted and elegantly written novel…Unsworth has evidently done a great deal of research, but this is woven seamlessly into the fabric of the novel so that the reader is caught up in the excitement of Somerville’s discoveries’ Peter Parker, The Sunday Times

Read the full review

‘I’ve read lots of books about economics this last year.  This is one of the very best … Superb’ William Leith, Evening Standard

‘A fluent and indirect paean to Keynesian economics…this resonates with the contemporary turmoil in global financial markets’ James Urquhart, Financial Times

Read the full review

‘Ahamed unravels the story of the most terrible financial collapse in history from the perspective of the four men who were largely responsible: the leading central bankers in the United States, Britain, France and Germany’ Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday

Helen Rappaport talks Conspirator and Ekaterinburg

 

conspirator1      Ekaterinburg

Author and historian Helen Rappaport will be touring around the country talking about her writing through 2010. For full details please visit Helen’s official site.

Customised Coupland

Generation A

To celebrate the special edition of Douglas Coupland’s Generation A, we are getting you to design your own cover for the book. Simply go to the site below and design your cover, and we’ll print and send it over with your copy of the book.

Customised Coupland site

Praise for Generation A:

‘With this exceptional sequel to Generation X, Douglas Coupland may be one of the smartest, wittiest writers around…He is a terrifically good writer…Coupland scatters his smartly satirical observations throughout…This is a clever, brilliant book - and it’s loads better than Generation X…funny and profound’ - Esquire

‘Eighteen years on from Generation X, Coupland still satirises pop culture better than anyone. This globe-spanning tale, set in the near future, is masterfully told and often hilarious’ - GQ

‘Highly recommended. Like Murakami in thriller-trope mode. Go for it’ - William Gibson

‘Possibly the most gifted exegete of North American mass culture writing today’ - Observer

‘Douglas Coupland has surely reserved his place at the top table of North American fiction’ - Independent on Sunday

‘He is a brilliant social commentator and a wit of our times’ - Times Literary Supplement

‘We should really pay attention to Coupland. His eye is so firmly on the ball he’s virtually clairvoyant’ - Guardian

Did you miss us?

In honour of the launch of www.windmill-books.co.uk, we want to get you up to speed on some of the books we’ve published in the last year. And we can think of no better way than giving you a bumper bundle of books that are sure to have stockings well filled this Christmas.

To win all of these books, plus limited edition Windmill Books notepads and postcards (insert ‘ooos’ here), just answer this question: at what time in the day do I get most of my reading done? Is it:

a) In bed

b) At work

c) On the commute

Answers will be accepted via the medium of Twitter - tweet @WindmillBooks and I’ll pick the winner randomly at 4:30. Good luck!

Harvey

Welcome to Windmill!

 

Welcome to our brand-spanking new site for Windmill Books, paperback publishers of literary fiction and non-fiction. After last month’s sneak preview and your suggestions we’ve tinkered and we’ve polished, so thank you all for making the site even better than before.

You can also follow us on Twitter to keep up to date on all things Windmill. Stay tuned for:

  • News
  • Awards
  • Guest author blogs
  • Competitions
  • …and much more!

See you soon,

The Windmill Team

Andrea Wulf talk at the British Library

The Brother Gardeners

The author of The Brother Gardeners will be giving a talk at the British Library on the 2nd February from 6pm.

For directions to the event, click here.

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About Windmill Books

At Windmill Books we publish a small but perfectly formed paperback list stuffed full of literary treats from stunning debuts to bookshelf staples. And if it’s facts you’re after then we’ve got plenty of those too with some truly groundbreaking new non-fiction and some quirky reference thrown in for fun. Come back and visit to catch up with all the latest news, info and author chat. There’ll be the odd competition here too!

The Windmill Team

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