So this is how très influential we are here at Biteback. Whilst other publishers are running competitions, desperately trying to promote their own books (by the way, you can enter our competition to win a copy of The Bank here), we get to lay back. We don't need to run these competitions. Other people love our books so much they do it for us!
A signed copy of Michael Smith's The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War is up for grabs as part of a competition for the Art Fund Prize 2012. Details here:
'We've teamed up with Bletchley Park to offer you the chance to win one of six copies of The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War, signed by its bestselling author Michael Smith. To enter the competition, simply email comp@artfund.org with the answer to the following question:
What Bletchley Park mathematician, widely regarded as the father of the modern computer, invented the'bombe' that cracked the Enigma code?
The competition ends at 5pm on Sunday 5 March. Please read the Terms and Conditions before entering.
Tell the judges why Bletchley Park should win the Art Fund Prize 2012.'
The book is the astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years o ff the Second World War, and never ceases to amaze. No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one of the earliest accounts.