For our July Contest, we’re giving you the chance to win a copy of Pullman’s latest novel, The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ, kindly provided to us by Canongate Books. One lucky winner will receive a copy of it with a Pullman-signed bookplate, while two runners-up will get a copy of the book. That’s right, July’s contest has THREE prizes! That means you’re THREE TIMES more likely to win this contest than our previous ones. Read on to find out how to enter…
In Northern Lights/The Golden Compass, Lyra is given the truth-telling alethiometer; in the Subtle Knife, Will acquires a knife with intentions of its own; in The Amber Spyglass, Mary makes a spyglass that lets her see something she couldn’t before.
The events in each book are shaped by these artefacts. We want YOU to come up with a fourth artefact of your own! Tell us what object you’ve come up with, and in one sentence only, explain what its abilities are.
Send your entry in to
contest@bridgetothestars.net, with the subject line “July Contest†by 11:59pm GMT on the 21
st of July. The entries will be judged anonymously and the best ones will receive our awesome prizes! Only one entry per person allowed. This contest is open to everyone except BridgeToTheStars.net staff. Good luck!
The Republic of Heaven Book Club has chosen its June/July book – The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins!
TRoH’s book club chooses a book to read and discuss on a bi-monthly basis and membership is open to all.
To join the book club, submit yourself in the book club usergroup on the forum. (You must be registered to the forum first.) Non-members can post in the discussion threads in the book club sub-forum but cannot nominate and vote for new books or start new topics.
You can buy the book on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.
In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch.
Congratulations to the winner of our June contest: Hania, who correctly answered that the Lyra grew up in Jordan College! She’s won a copy of The Subtle Knife containing a Philip Pullman-signed bookplate.
If you entered but didn’t win, then please accept our heartfelt commiserations. There’ll be another contest next month, so watch this space!
Philip Pullman will be launching the London Literature Festival this year, on Thursday the 30th of June. The festival, which will be running for two weeks until the 14th of July, will feature other famous faces such as Alan Hollinghurst, Iain Sinclair, Liz Lochhead, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Zaha Hadid and many others.
At his event at the festival, Pullman will be reading from and discussing some of his novels, including his newest work, The Good Man Jesus and the Scouldrel Christ. Ticket prices range from £10 to £14 and are available to purchase here.
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Philip Pullman was given an award for services to Humanism at the British Humanist Association’s annual conference in Manchester on Saturday. He has been a long-time supporter of the BHA.
Since the publication of His Dark Materials, Pullman has become known as a public commentator on religion, education and literature. He was chosen by The Independent for its ‘Good List 2006′ of ’50 campaigners, thinkers and givers’.
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