EVER BOUGHT A BOOK ON THE STRENGTH OF THE REVIEWS ON THE BACK???

If you are like us (and probably one of the many thousands of book lovers across the globe) and have had the misfortune of spending your hard-earned cash on an apparent "best-seller"; you will probably also have experienced the dull thud as you bang your head against the wall, thinking "Why did I listen to the reviews on the back?!" The truth is: reviews found on books are usually self-promoting, PR stunt-type hype and not necessarily a true reflection of the books' quality at all.

It is our aim to tell the truth about books, but don't for one second assume that that is synonymous with us creating a blog to 'diss' authors' work - to the contrary - our intention is to provide an honest appraisal of each and every book we read. If the book is any good - it'll get a good review. If it's awful and a tragedy to the literary world - then it won't. It's that simple.

Wednesday, 2 July 2008

New COMPETITION coming soon...

We are extremely pleased to let you know that we are planning a new competition whereby members can enter for free for a chance to win a signed first edition copy of The Enemy's Son by James Johnson.

This is a must have collector's item - especially for you SF fans out there!

The competition is not yet open, so keep your eyes peeled on our main website http://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/ and of course, we'll let you know here FIRST!
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Problem with main website

We're aware that some books on the website (we think we've found all affected titles) have been wrongly assigned the author Adrian Tchaikovsky. This is a minor database error, which we are hoping to rectify as soon as possible.
Apologies to any authors who are affected.
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Did You Know....?

Every month, The Truth About Books runs a competition where readers are given the opportunity to win a free book.

We call this our 'Readers' Choice' competition - and all you have to do is select one of the three titles that you'd like to see win (or you would just like a free copy of), enter your name, email address (which we promise we won't spam or give out to anyone else) and if you're a UK resident you're eligible to win! Even if you're not in the UK, you can still vote.

So, if you quite fancy the idea of a free book - enter our competition and start voting today!
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Book of the Month - July 2008

Silk by Penny Jordan is primarily a love story; one that has a sweeping and gratuitous dialogue that exposes high society in the early 1900's of the Britain.
Not being overly keen on the romance novels that seem to fill our bookshelves, we were nonchalant about Silk - but we simply couldn't put it down and the story sticks in your head like gum on the underside of a table...
check out the book review!
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