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Hide a Book Day - September 18th 2017

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As part of the Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration, Goodreads is teaming up with The Book Fairies for a special Hide a Book Day on Monday, September 18. Everyone has a favourite book (or in my case, a pile of favourites!). To share the love of these books, Goodreads and The Book Fairies invite you to hide your own favourite book for others to discover. You may have heard that Emma Watson did this earlier this year when she shared copies of Our Shared Self. Hiding best-loved books for others to discover has been a "thing" for quite some time now, publicised and promoted by The Book Fairies. But Monday the 18th of September will be a special event, where book lovers from all corners of the world will be hiding their favourite reads for others to discover. Will you get involved? All you need to do is choose a book, and find somewhere safe (and preferably, dry) to hide it. To enhance your finder's experience, you could p urchase stickers from the Book Fairy website , or write a

Penguin' Season of Stories Begins Anew

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Sign up to The Season of Stories this month to receive bite-sized tales delivered daily direct to your inbox. Season of Stories returns in September, with three more months of hand-picked short stories from acclaimed authors such as Lee Child, James McBride, Jenny Zhang, Charles Yu, Denis Johnson, and Aimee Bender. Each week, you’ll get a new short story delivered to your inbox in four instalments sent daily from Tuesday until the conclusion on Friday. The bite-sized newsletter will give you just the right amount to read while commuting, waiting in line, or during your lunch break. Summer might be over, but a whole season of awesome is coming your way. Once you have signed up and confirmed your email address, you should be able to read any instalments you may have missed using the link in the emails sent from Season of Stories. Head on over to the SoS website to learn more .