Book Tombola!

[Bronwen]

Being a writer, I go to a monthly writers' event in my area where everyone meets up and talks about what they are doing (for anyone, at any level) and there's often people there who take to the stage for a bit to talk about their own book or maybe it's a publisher, or a new magazine starting up... anyway, what does this have to do with books?

 

Well, recently we've started having BOOK TOMBOLA which is amazing! They bring in a whole box of brand new books (2 boxes actually, fiction and non-fiction) and all the books are £1! You get a ticket, but you get to choose your own book. I walked away with about seven last time! I was just wondering if anyone else did this. Say if you went to a readers' meeting etc. why not have a book tombola there? It's a wonderful thing! Could even just manage it yourselves by providing a book or five you didn't want any more.

 

So far I've gotten some great books from there, including 'The Amateurs' by John Niven and 'Tail of the Blue Bird' by Nii Ayikwei Parkes.

 

I'd definitely give the experience a thumbs up.