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Competition: Meet and Greet Dan Brown
Win your chance to meet and greet Dan Brown at our exclusive Inferno launch event in O’Connell Street on May 20th! Every day this week, we’ll be posting questions on Facebook, Twitter and the Easons.com blog. Get the right answer to the daily questions and we’ll post further instructions on Friday.
Here’s today’s question:
What kind of sciences is Katherine Solomon working on in The Lost Symbol?
You don’t need to post the answer anywhere, just make a note of it yourself and keep an eye on Facebook, Twitter and the blog this Friday!
Best of luck!
Win Tickets to the Irish Premiere of The Great Gatsby!
Eason Book Club and Warner Bros. Pictures are delighted to offer you the chance to win exclusive tickets to the Irish Premiere of the highly anticipated film The Great Gatsby on Wednesday May 15 at 7pm in The Savoy Cinema, Dublin.
From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. In his adaptation, the filmmaker combines his distinctive visual, sonic, and storytelling styles in 3 Dimensions, weaving a Jazz Age cocktail faithful to Fitzgerald’s text and relevant to now. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the title role.
“The Great Gatsby” follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without of the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
This competition is now closed. Congratulations to our lucky winners!
The Great Gatsby, Cert 12A opens in Ireland on May 16, 2013.
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Tiny Tall Tales III – Kids Edition!
Submit your Tiny Tall Tale for a chance to see your story on 35,000 bookmarks and win €200 worth of school books from Easonschoolshop.com, along with a pack of children’s books!
Do you have a budding Blyton or junior Joyce in the family? This edition of Tiny Tall Tales is only open to children aged 12 and under. The winning entry will appear on the back of 35,000 bookmarks, packed with all Easons.com and Easonschoolshop.com orders over the summer! The winner will also receive €200 worth of 2013-2014 school books from Easonschoolshop.com and a selection of bestselling children’s books.
Entries will be judged by our team of in-house experts – the people who decide what books appear on the shelves every year. They’re looking for an original and instantly engaging story, no longer than 100 words.
To be in with a chance to have your Tiny Tall Tale immortalised on 35,000 bookmarks and win these great prizes, complete the below entry form by midnight on Sunday, April 28th, 2013. (Only one entry per person. Entrants must be born after May 1st, 2000, and have permission from a parent/guardian. Entries must not exceed 100 words.)
Make sure to check out Easonschoolshop.com for revision aids, past exam papers and all your stationery needs!
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Exclusive Thank You Card Competition: Take Niall Horan Home – Competition Extended, with an Extra Standee up for Grabs!
We have TWO fabulous life-sized Niall Horan Standees for one lucky Thank You Card holder, courtesy of Panini – the official One Direction Sticker Collection company.
To be in with a chance of winning, complete the entry form below with the correct answer and use your Thank You Card in-store or online by midnight on Sunday, April 30th.
If you haven’t done so already, you can register for a card via our Loyalty Card page.
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Guest Article: Claudia Carroll on ‘Me and You’. Plus – win one of three copies of the book!
Nerve-racking time in this house, as my new book, Me and You is published this very day in Ireland and when I tell you I’m down on my hands here praying you’ll all like it, ‘tis really no exaggeration.
Anyway, one of the questions I get asked a lot is, where do get all your ideas from? Well for this particular book, the apple on the head moment came from…of all things…an interview I just happened to be reading with the head of the Missing Person’s Bureau here in Ireland. You know how it seems not a week goes by without posters appearing on lampposts with heartbreaking photos and messages saying, ‘missing. Last seen leaving the xxx pub…etc.’ T’would break your heart, it really would. Anyway, in this interview, the guy from missing persons said that well over 90% of people who go missing do so voluntarily, often because of depression or alcoholism or maybe financial worries. But in a frightening amount of cases, it’s because they just want to check out of their whole life…
Which got me thinking… What is it that could possibly make someone just walk out on everyone and everything they ever loved?
Just to tell you a little bit more about the story, it starts with our heroine Angie being stood up on her birthday. No hang on, keep reading, it gets worse. By her best friend, Kitty. So of course Angie does what any of us would do…does a ring-around of just about every mutual pal they know, but it’s nothing but dead ends everywhere. No matter who she talks to, everyone says, ‘oh, I thought she was with you!’
Now she’s a bit of a flake-head, Kitty; you know, the type of character who could fall in with a load of strangers in a pub, then wake up the next morning on a sofa in Holyhead, not having the first clue how she got there. Which means, initially no one panics, everyone just keeps telling Angie, ‘Ah, Kitty’ll turn up when she’s good and ready to…you know what that one is like!’
But she doesn’t. So Angie and Kitty’s lovely boyfriend really start to get panicky, as you would, so they go to the cops and file this as a missing person case. And of course, the search gets wider and wider with absolutely nothing turning up…until one night the police come calling to report a major breakthrough. So just how well, they ask Angie, did you really know this girl Kitty anyway?
Part two is Kitty’s story. It’s two years on now and we learn why she did what she had to do, why she had to walk out on the best pal she ever had and the only man she really ever loved. She’s abroad now, but suddenly her circumstances change dramatically and she finds herself having to come home for a funeral.
What she doesn’t know though, is that in the intervening two years, Angie and Kitty’s old boyfriend have grown closer and closer, almost bonded by the shock they went through…and are now…wait for it…a couple.
Sorry…not telling you any more! But I’m hoping this might just have whetted your appetite and that maybe you’d all like to read on. So, as you see, it’s essentially a love triangle story with a missing girl at the back of it and I’m hoping against hope you’ll all like it now!
On another note, can I just take a minute to say a huge and heartfelt thanks to everyone at Eason’s, not only for letting me write this blog for them, but for all the incredible support and encouragement they unfailingly give to Irish authors everywhere? The staff are all unanimously lovely and make shopping in there only a pleasure. And I know we keep reading about the death knell of paperbacks and the unstoppable rise of ebooks, but I for one ain’t buying it. I think it was Stephen Fry who said physical books are no more threatened by ebooks, than stairs are by escalators. And you only have to go into any branch of Eason’s nationwide to see the proof of it. The stores are always busy thank God and long, long, long may that continue.
Writing can be a solitary and sometimes a lonely gig, but when we get the chance to drop into Eason’s to meet readers and to sign books, it’s just incredible for us. So thank you, very sincerely, from this very grateful author and I’m dying to see you all in my local branch very soon!
With fondest wishes,
Claudia
Claudia Carroll Competition
We have three copies of Claudia’s new novel Me and You to give away. To enter, simply answer the following question by 7th April:
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Guest Post: With All Patricia Scanlan’s Love (Plus Competition!)
Bestselling Irish author Patricia Scanlan sent us this exclusive post about the impending publication of her latest novel, With All My Love, which will be released on February 28th. Make sure to enter the competition at the end of this post to win tickets to an evening with Patricia!
Hello Dear Eason’s Followers on this beautiful sunny morning here in Dublin. I can’t believe it’s ‘New Book” time again. I remember twenty-two years ago (Ahem! Skip over that quickly) seeing the first copy of City Girl in Eason’s O’Connell Street with the lovely Sally Mimnagh who had invited me in to talk to the staff. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life, as was arriving at Easons the following year on my own bus, with big posters advertising Apartment 3B, to be greeted by Sally and the staff holding a huge banner on the steps of the shop saying Easons Welcomes Patricia Scanlan. Easons have been hugely supportive of my books down the years and it’s always a real pleasure to visit the shops on my book tours. We’ve held many events and it’s always great to go and meet all the other Irish authors at these occasions. We have sold millions of books worldwide, which is a wonderful achievement. Sadly, our dear Maeve has passed on but there are many more of us to hold her banner high. She was always very proud to see our books displayed in bookshops around the world.
This time last year I was just starting With All My Love, and today it’s all ready to go into Eason’s warehouse where I’ll soon be signing hundreds and hundreds of copies to go into the Eason shops countrywide so there will be signed copies for Mother’s Day everywhere. I’ll also be doing some formal signings in Eason’s O’Connell Street, Blanchardstown and Belfast. And we have a lovely event planned in Eason’s in Patrick Street, Cork. A Mother’s Day evening with me on Thursday 28th Feb, which will include prizes of lovely goody bags! Watch this space for dates and times. My publishers are also running a competition on my Patricia Scanlan Facebook page to win a signed copy of With All My Love before publication so please enter before Monday 18th.
My Publicity Manager will post on Facebook and twitter when I’m in the various shops signing stock so please drop in and say hello if you get the chance. Looking forward to seeing you and a big Thank You to Easons and yourselves for all the support down the years.
- Patricia xxx
Patricia Scanlan Competition
We have 2 pairs of tickets and goody bags to giveaway to an evening with Patricia Scanlan in our Patrick St., Cork store on Thursday, 28th February. To enter simply answer the following question by Friday, 22nd February:
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Win Tickets to the Safe Haven Premiere
2013 is turning out to be a landmark year for movie adaptations of great books – Les Miserables, Lincoln, Cloud Atlas, Beautiful Creatures, Mortal Instruments… but as is the case every time a new Nicholas Sparks book-to-movie event is announced, we are not ashamed to say that we cannot wait to see Safe Haven! Sparks’ beautiful, moving stories always make fantastic films – The Notebook, The Lucky One, The Last Song, Dear John – and this one will surely not disappoint.
Katie Feldman (Julianne Hough) arrives in the tiny coastal town of Southport, North Carolina, looking to make a new, quiet life for herself. She rents a rundown cabin and takes a job waiting on tables in the local café, hoping to keep a low profile. But despite the almost impenetrable emotional walls she has built to protect herself, she is drawn in by the genuine warmth and caring of the tight-knit community, especially the town’s grocery-store owner, Alex (Josh Duhamel), and his two young children…
Get your tissues out guys, it’s going to be emotional!
What’s more, we are delighted to announce that we have tickets to give away to the premiere of Safe Haven at Movies@Dundrum on Friday, February 22nd, courtesy of Momentum Pictures.
In attendance at the screening will be author Nicholas Sparks and the stars of the film, Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough. To be in with a chance to win a pair of tickets to this screening, answer the following question:
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Safe Haven opens in cinemas nationwide on March 1st.
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Tiny Tall Tales II – Irish Folklore
Submit your Tiny Tall Tale for a chance to see your story on 5,000 bookmarks and win a brand new eReader!
Tiny Tall Tales is back!
Once again, we’re looking for a very short story to appear on the next Easons.com bookmark, which is packed for free with every book order we deliver. We’re printing 5,000 bookmarks – your Tiny Tall Tale could be enjoyed by readers all over Ireland, the UK and beyond! The winner will also receive a brand new eReader!
This time, since the bookmarks will be used in the lead-up to St Patrick’s Day, we’re setting a theme: Irish Folklore. Create your own folk tale, retell a classic in a unique style, or take a different interpretation of the theme – as long as there’s a bit of diddly-eye and shenanigans involved, you’ll be grand.
Entries will be judged by our team of in-house experts – the people who decide what books appear on the shelves every year. They’re looking for an original, concise and instantly engaging story with a beginning, middle and end, no longer than 100 words.
To be in with a chance to have your Tiny Tall Tale immortalised on the festive Easons.com bookmark, and win an eReader, complete the below entry form by midnight, February 4th, 2013. (Only one entry per person. Entries must not exceed 100 words.)
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This competition is now closed. Congratulations to our winner!
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Win a Limited-Edition ‘Donkey Bookcase’ from Penguin – Competition Extended!
Our friends at Penguin Books have kindly given us a rare ‘Donkey Bookcase’ as a competition prize for one lucky winner. Made from polished birch wood, this collector’s item – worth upwards of €500 – contains a number of shelving areas for an array of magazines and books.
In conjunction with this great offer, we are also offering 20% off Penguin Modern Library Classics!
To be in with a chance to win, simply sign up for the Easons.com newsletter, using the form below, by Friday, January 11th.
Please note: This competition has now ended. Congratulations to our lucky winner!
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