1. This competition is open to anyone aged 16 or over who is a resident of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, except for employees of The Random House Group Limited (the promoter, we, us), its group companies, families and any other company connected with the competition.
2. Entries must be received before midnight GMT of June 9th 2011. Entries that are illegible or received after this date will not be considered. Automated/bulk entries and entries from third parties will be disqualified. The promoter is not responsible for entries delayed or lost. Proof of entering is not proof of receipt of entry.
3. The competition will be judged by the promoter within 14 days of the closing date and the winner will be the person who has correctly identified the sentence as per the competition question, and entered their email address. The winner will be notified by email within 28 days of the closing date.
4. Competition prize is £500 worth of Lastminute.com vouchers. Winners must contact Ebury Publishing within one month of being notified to claim their prize.
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11. The promoter’s contact details are: The Random House Group Limited, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA.
Hope and Glory celebrates our British history, not the history that is full of ancient Kings and endless dates but a history that’s about people like me and you.
I’ve chosen a event from every decade of the twentieth century; a moment in which something happened that changed our future. From the battle of the Somme to Live Aid, from the 66 world cup to the climbing of Everest.
Every day for 10 days starting May 31st I will be sharing a small piece of this story filmed from locations in the book and also giving you a special clue, once you have collected all these clues together it will form a question. If you enter this question in to the box below you will be in with a chance of winning a fantastic prize. Log on to the website or follow my Twitter link to find the clue each day.
We are giving away £500 worth of Lastminute.com vouchers so that you can you choose an experience that will create your own unique moment in your history.
Join me as I go in search of these big events in our history to see how they have shaped who we are as a nation today.
Once you have entered the competition, why not go on to the blog and write your own answer to the clues.
Good Luck.
Monday 6th June, 7pm
Waterstone’s Liverpool Central
Tel: 0843 290 8455
Tuesday 7th June, 7pm
Preston County Hall,
Tel: Silverdell Books 01772 683 444
Wednesday 8th June, 7pm
Waterstone’s Nottingham
Tel:0843 290 8525
Thursday 9th June, 7.30pm
Maltings Arts Theatre
Tel: Waterstone’s St Albans 0843 290 8601
Sunday 12th June, 5pm
Yellow Lighted Book Festival
Gloucestershire
www.yellow-lightedbookfestival.co.uk
Friday 17th June
Cockermouth Festival
www.cockermouthfestival.org
Tuesday June 28th
Chester Festival
More info
Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th July
Latitude Festival
www.latitudefestival.co.uk/2011
Other
- PBJ – Stuart’s agents
- Stuart’s Stories – Stuart explores hidden gems of England’s Northwest
It’s just under two weeks until Stuart’s new book Hope and Glory: The Days that Made Britain is published. At Ebury Publishing we are very excited and so we thought you’d all like to know where you can watch, hear and see Stuart in person talking about the book.
On 9th June get The Word magazine and watch The Wright Stuff on Channel FIVE. On Saturday 11th June listen to Loose Ends on Radio 4 and on Tuesday 21st June to Simon Mayo’s Drivetime Show on BBC Radio 2.
You can see Stuart talk, meet him and get your own signed copy of Hope and Glory in Liverpool, Nottingham, Preston, St Albans, The Yellow Lighted Festival in Gloucestershire, Chester Festival, Cockermouth Festival and Latitude Festival. For more details on all of these go to the events page.
Stuart Maconie has written the foreward to Rosemary Jarski’s grand collection of northern wit. Likely lads and lippy lasses cast a wry eye on subjects close to the heart of every northerner, including brass, grub, graft, courting, cricket, tittle-tattle and t’weather – adding up to a feast of northern hilarity.
Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy’s obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart’s audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework and trouser dimensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the NME by accident; living the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowing when to ditch it all for what really matters.
From Stuart’s four minutes in a leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it’s a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come together to make music.
Reviews
“The English Bill Bryson” – Tony Wilson
“The perfect pop fan’s life … effortlessly articulate” – Times
“Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton” – Peter Kay
“An heir to Alan Bennett … stirring and rather wonderful” – Antony Quinn, Sunday Times
“A working class boy who now, on air, challenges Stephen Fry’s spry wit, Maconie celebrates his younger self modestly and fluently, pausing only for regular rib-ticklers” – Mojo
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle’s Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and brothers in southern exile.
The bestselling Pies and Prejudice is a hugely enjoyable journey around the north of England.
Reviews
“Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton” – Peter Kay
“An heir to Alan Bennett … stirring and rather wonderful” – Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times
“Funnier than Bill Bryson. There’s lots to love about Maconie’s North – even for Southern Jessies” – Metro
“Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny.” – Guardian
“A lyrical, passionate, humorous and argumentative tour du force … Imagine Nick Danzinger meets Nik Cohen meets Ricky Tomlinson and you’ve got the perfect blend of humorously incisive northern-travel writing. An early contender for best travel book of the year.” – Big Issue North
Everyone talks about ‘Middle England’. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of tabloid readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn’t know either, so he packed his Thermos and sandwiches and set off to find out…
Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers? Does it hark back to the myth of Merrie England or is it a modern concept borne of Top Gear and Princess Diana? Stuart Maconie leads an expedition by rail and road – via Carnforth and Adlestrop, Scratchwood and Tebay – in search of Jane Austen’s Bath, Disgusted’s Tunbridge Wells, Tom & Barbara Good’s Surbiton, Betjeman and Brent’s Slough, Elgar’s Malverns, Inspector Barnaby’s Midsomer and Thatcher’s Grantham – with plenty of stop-offs for tea and pastries along the way.