When we selected last month’s Dabbler Book Club choice, which you can buy here, we wondered whether the author was able to pull off what sounded like quite an outrageous proposition. Well does he? Brit: The central conceit of Hope: A Tragedy would have made a fine episode of South Park: it is ... Read More...
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Announcing the winners of this month’s Dabbler Book Club choice… Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander is a bizarre and controversial novel, which we announced as our latest Dabbler Book Club choice here. For some ten lucky winners of a copy, chosen at random from our book club members, Hope turned into Triumph: Graham ... Read More...
Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity – to a commenter who tickles our fancy… Dabblers are by their very nature nonconformist, and like Heraclitus they also know that there is nothing immutable, except the need for change...Which is why ... Read More...
It's safe to say that the next Dabbler Book Club selection is a publishing one-off. This month you have the chance to win a copy of Shalom Auslander's unlikely novel Hope: A Tragedy. This is Auslander's self-described "Persuasively Written Book Jacket Copy": Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens ... Read More...
The Dabbler has teamed up with Wish.co.uk to offer our readers a chance to win a special wine experience in London... The perfect day out for wine enthusiasts, one winner and his or her guest will visit London’s premiere wine establishment located near Borough Market, the Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, for the Vinopolis ... Read More...
Congratulations to our two lucky winners of this excellent prize... Picador reaches its 40th anniversary this year, and to mark it they’re reissuing 12 of their most celebrated novels in a very cool new black-and-white cover design. We had two full sets to give away, each worth just shy of £100, and winners ... Read More...
Every month we award a bottle of Glengoyne 10 year old single malt - the finest whisky available to humanity - to a commenter who tickles our fancy... One thing we like about this place is the way you get introduced to characters you wouldn't otherwise come across. Till Lindemann (bottom), for instance, ... Read More...
Congratulations to a brace of slangy Dabbler victors... Congratulations are in order today - first to our very own Mr Slang, Jonathon Green, whose mighty Green's Dictionary of Slang - the epic 3-volume culmination of a life's work - has won the Dartmouth Medal for 2011. This is the prize awarded ... Read More...
Announcing the winners of this month’s Dabbler Book Club choice… Way back in October, Dabbler Elberry treated us to a stirring review of a book that had started making waves in the publishing industry - having been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt is a dark and ... Read More...
Thanks to our friends at Picador, we've got no less than 24 great books to give away... Picador reaches its 40th anniversary this year, and to mark it they’re reissuing 12 of their most celebrated novels in a very cool new black-and-white cover design (read more about it here). We’ve got two ... Read More...
