To celebrate the release of Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu's fantastically twisted Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, Windmill Books, in association with Waterstone's, are giving you the chance to win an exclusive sampler of the first two chapters! All you have to do is answer the following question:

What is the name of the undead substitute teacher in Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People?

Click here for a clue, and to see some of the wicked and malicious characters from the book. Send your answer to windmill@randomhouse.co.uk with your name and address, and you will be entered for the draw. Winners announced 1st November at 5pm. Good luck!

Here at Windmill, we know that one of the best ways to discover new books is with book club - whether it’s an author you’d not heard of before, or a genre you normally don’t go for, these are the books that may open up huge and exciting new reading possibilities to you.

We are very excited to launch our new Windmill Books Facebook page, which will be your one-stop-shop for the titles we have picked out as future book club classics. Starting with Vaclav and Lena in June, you will find reading group guides, author articles, events, and, at the end of each month, a live chat with the author for you and your group to pose your questions to them. There will also be competitions and you’ll be able to keep up with the latest Windmill Books news.

Simply go to www.facebook.com/windmillbooks and hit the ‘Like’ button today!

                                                 

 

It was announced on Friday that two William Heinemann titles have made the 6-strong shortlist for the CWA Non-fiction Award!  

Killing Time: The Race to Stop an Execution is the haunting yet gripping memoir by David R. Dow, a death-row attorney based in Texas. Praised by John Grisham as ‘riveting and compelling’ and the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin as ‘extraordinary’, it’s the story of the author’s fight for justice. His life is thrown upside down when he becomes convinced that one of his clients, who is facing execution in a matter of weeks, is innocent.

Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945- 1948 is the gripping true story of the murder, in Palestine in 1947, of a Jewish activist by a British counter-terrorist officer and the subsequent cover-up. A controversial untold story of Britain’s role in shaping the Middle East by David Cesarani, an author described by the Sunday Times as ‘masterful’, this was sure to cause a stir.

The other great bit of news from Crimefest was that Josh Bazell’s awesome Beat the Reaper picked up the e-dunnit award for best crime e-book. Congratulations Josh!

The winner of the CWA award will be announced in June… fingers crossed!

 Rachel Heath’s debut novel The Finest Type of English Womanhood has been shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. The judges praised the book as “dark and gripping story which merges fact and fiction so powerfully”.

The winner will be announced on the 5th January, and Windmill will publish the paperback in February.

Welcome to your sneak peak of the new site for Windmill Books, proud publishers of some of the most exciting new and established literary authors around today.

The site will officially be launched on the 1^st December, with more of the latest titles, news from our authors, events, competitions, podcasts, and posts from The Turbine blog than you can shake a pointy stick at. As this is a test site, some of the pages may be a little slow to load; it’ll be back to its slick best for the full site. Otherwise please have a rummage round, and let us know what you think by leaving comments or tweeting us @WindmillBooks.

The Windmill Team