Saturday, October 21, 2006

Get Your Book Reviewed

Getting a book reviewed on a variety of media is always an important part of a publicity campaign for a newly published book. Increasingly the internet is vital not only in terms of publicity but also for book sales so that exposure a publication receives on book-focused blogs and websites can be very beneficial.

I will review books that I am sent by both publishing companies and by self-published authors in order to provide some publicity for new publications.

I am a book-lover, someone who enjoys holding a real book in the hand and seeing it on a shelf. I am someone who spends a lot of time working on a computer and although I own a reading device, I have no interest in reading digital versions of books so I will only review books that I receive physical copies of. A bit old-fashioned, I know, but that is the way I like it.

Send me your book for reviewing and I will:
  • Create a promotional blog post on receiving your book.
  • Create a second blog post reviewing your book.
After reading your book I will write an honest review of it. I will avoid being rude about any book I receive this way and will try to focus upon any positive aspects I see in it, but I will also politely talk about anything I don't like about it. Honest reviews but never rude nor scathing.

You can read an example of a review of a book that I was sent by a self-published author which I enjoyed here - The Seven Gifts That Came To Earth by John Mellor

You can read an example of a review of a book that I was sent by a self-published author which I did not rate so highly here - Thoughts, Life of a Suicide by Dillan Kane

Contact me if you would like your book to be reviewed

I cannot accept every book that I am asked to review as I would never be able to read all of them so please contact me, via email, with the details of any book that you would like reviewing. Please let me know the genre and a little about the book then if I think I can review your book properly I will provide an address to which to send it - nickupton@thaibirding.com

Thank you

Nick

Book List by Title

This is a list of all the books I have reviewed, arranged by title, in alphabetical order; this list will continue to grow as I add more book reviews.

1000 by Gavin Robertson

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka
Animal Behaviour by John Alcock
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Animal - The Definitive Visual Guide edited by David Burnie
Around The World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Asterix and the Falling Sky by Albert Uderzo
Asterix and the Laurel Wreath by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

Baking Cakes In Kigali by Gaile Parkin
Barcelona Plates by Alexi Sayle
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
Birdwatchingwatching by Alex Horne
Blokes and Birds edited by Stephen Moss
Borat by Sasha Baron Cohen

Candide by Voltaire
Chart Throb by Ben Elton
Collins Bird Guide by Lars Svensson & Peter J. Grant
Congo by Michael Crighton

Deception Point by Dan Brown

Earth in the Balance (Forging a New Common Purpose) by Al Gore
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Five Hundred Mile Walkies by Mark Wallington
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
French Revolutions by Tim Moore

Giraffe by J.M. Ledgard
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Suess
Guiness World Records 2008

Hit List by Lawrence Block
How to Fossilise Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare

I Spy With My Little Eye by Linnea Mills
Iznogoud; The Caliph's Vacation by Goscinny & Tabary

Life on Air by Sir David Attenborough
London Fields by Martin Amis
Lost Horizon by James Hilton

Magic Seeds by V. S. Naipaul
Making History by Stephen Fry
Married Lovers by Jackie Collins
Martyr by Rory Clements
Mercury Falls by Robert Kroese
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Mister Roberts by Alexei Sayle
Mogadishu Diaries, Bloodlines by Eddie Clay Thomkins III
Mr Dixon Disappears by Ian Sansom
Mr Sampath - the printer of Malgudi by R. K. Narayan
Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer

Oh The Thinks You Can Think by Dr Seuss
Overtaken by Alexei Sayle

Perfect Hostage by Justin Wintle
Phaic Tan - Sunstroke on a Shoestring by Jetlag Travel
Pipits & Wagtails by Per Alstrom, Krister Mild & Bill Zetterstrom

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
Salt by Jeremy Page
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Siege by Jack Hight
Slam by Nick Hornby
So Shall We Reap - Colin Tudge
Swinesend - Britain's Greatest Public School by Locker, Dornan & Owens

The Book of Dave by Will Self
The Book With No Name by Anonymous
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
The Castle in the Forest - by Norman Mailer
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
The Eventful History of HMS Bounty - Sir John Barrows
The First Casualty by Ben Elton
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
The Guv'nor
 by Lenny McLean & Peter Gerrard
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Man Eaters of Tsavo by J. M. Patterson
The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi
The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul
The Organ Grinders by Bill Fitzhugh
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Religion by Tim Willocks
The Secrets of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard
The Seven Gifts That Came To Earth by John Mellor
The Sneetches by Dr Suess
The Story of Zahra by Hanan Al-Shaykh
The Three Hostages by John Buchan
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres
The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Thoughts, Life of a Suicide by Dillan Kane
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
Tintin in The Congo by Herge
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Tooth & Nail by Ian Rankin
Tracks by Mike Gordon
Tricks of The Mind by Derren Brown

Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel
When The Sax Man Plays: Part 1 - Making It by Yvonne Marrs
Why Do Moths Drink Elephant Tears? by Matt Walker
Wild Food by Roger Phillips

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Book List by Author

This is a list of all the books I have reviewed, arranged by author, in alphabetical order. This list will continue to grow as I add more book reviews.

Al-Shaykh, Hanan - The Story of Zahra

Alcock, John Animal Behaviour

Alstrom, Per; Mild, Krister & Zetterstrom, Bill - Pipits & Wagtails

Amis, Martin - London Fields

Anonymous - The Book With No Name

Attenborough, Sir David - Life on Air

Auster, Paul - Mr Vertigo

Baddiel, David - Whatever Love Means

Baron Cohen, Sasha - Borat

Barrows, Sir John - The Eventful History of HMS Bounty

Block, Lawrence - Hit List

Brand, Russell - My Booky Wook

Brown, Dan - Deception Point
Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code

Brown, Derren - Tricks of The Mind

Buchan, John - The Three Hostages

Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange

Burnie, David - Animal - The Definitive Visual Guide

Clements, Rory - Martyr

Collins, Jackie - Married Lovers

Crighton, Michael - Congo
Dahl, Roald - My Uncle Oswald

Darwin, Charles - The Origin of Species

Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo

Elton, Ben - Chart Throb
Elton, Ben - The First Casualty

Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby

Fitzhugh, Bill - The Organ Grinders

Foden, Giles - The Last King of Scotland

Fry, Stephen - Making History


Gordon, Mike - Tracks

Goscinny, Rene & Uderzo, Albert - Asterix and the Laurel Wreath

Goscinny & Tabary - Iznogoud; The Caliph's Vacation

Harrer, Heinrich - Seven Years in Tibet

Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time

Herge - Tintin in The Congo

Hight, Jack - Siege

Hilton, James - Lost Horizon

Hornby, Nick - Slam

Horne, Alex - Birdwatchingwatching

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Jerome, Jerome K. - Three Men in a Boat

Jetlag Travel - Phaic Tan - Sunstroke on a Shoestring

Kane, Dillan - Thoughts, Life of a Suicide

Kroese, Robert - Mercury Falls

Ledgard, J.M. - Giraffe

Locker, Ben : Dornan, William : Owens, Jonathan - Swinesend - Britain's Greatest Public School

Mailer, Norman - The Castle in the Forest

Martel, Yann - The Life of Pi

McCall Smith - The World According to Bertie

McKibben, Bill - The End of Nature

McLean, Lenny & Gerrard, Peter - The Guv'nor

Mills, Linnea - I Spy With My Little Eye

Moore, Tim - French Revolutions

Moss, Stephen - Blokes and Birds

Naipaul, V. S. - Magic Seeds
Naipaul, V. S. - The Mystic Masseur

Narayan, R. K. - Mr Sampath - the printer of Malgudi

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Page, Jeremy - Salt

Parkin, Gaile - Baking Cakes In Kigali

Patterson, J. M. - The Man Eaters of Tsavo

Phillips, Roger - Wild Food

Pollard, Tony - The Secrets of the Lazarus Club

Preston, Douglas & Spezi, Mario - The Monster of Florence

Ralston, Aron - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Rankin, Ian - Tooth & Nail

Robertson, Gavin - 1000

Rushdie, Salman - Midnight's Children

Sansom, Ian - The Case of the Missing Books
Sansom, Ian - Mr Dixon Disappears

Sayle, Alexei - Barcelona Plates
Sayle, Alexei - Mister Roberts
Sayle, Alexei - Overtaken

Self, Will - The Book of Dave

Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle

Suess, Dr - Green Eggs and Ham
Suess, Dr - The Sneetches
Suess, Dr - Oh The Thinks You Can Think

Svensson, Lars & Grant, Peter J. - Collins Bird Guide

Tan, Amy
 - Saving Fish From Drowning

Thomkins III, Eddie Clay - Mogadishu Diaries, Bloodlines

Torday, Paul
 - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Tudge, Colin - So Shall We Reap

Uderzo, Albert - Asterix and the Falling Sky

Verne, Jules - Around The World in 80 Days
Verne, Jules - Five Weeks in a Balloon

Voltaire - Candide

Wallington, Mark - Five Hundred Mile Walkies

Wharton, Edith - Ethan Frome

Wheatley, Dennis - The Devil Rides Out

Willocks, Tim - The Religion

Wintle, Justin - Perfect Hostage