The Casual Vacancy

For fans of J.K Rowling, the famed author of the Harry Potter series is back with an a new book written for adults.

  
Release date: September 27th

Little, Brown Book Group described the plot on their website:

Plot

 "When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations.

The publisher says the The Casual Vacancy will be "blackly comic, thought provoking, and constantly surprising".

Related websites and articles:

• http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/home ( Little, brown book group)

I am excited of this news. The last time we read about her fantastic work is back in 2007, when the last of the Harry Potter books is being released.

Any J.K Rowling fans out there? Are you guys excited?

Book give away

Listen readers of Random Dot FM. Here is your chance to win yourself a book by Jonathan Safran Foer titled, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. 

You can participate in anyone of the following:

1. In the most creative essay that you can write, tell me something loud and incredibly close that happen to you in real life. ( It's an open essay, it could be something sad, happy or funny that happened). 
2. Since it is going to be the new year, take a picture of yourself planking with something Chinese New Year related. ( Planking with a mandarin orange, planking with a cheongsam, be creative)
3. Create a Chinese New Year video. It might be a choreographed video of you and your friends dancing to a Chinese New Year song, or perhaps miming to a Chinese song comically-anything creative and related). Upload in on youtube and send me the link of the video.

Here are a few simple rule and steps you should follow:

1. In order to participate in this contest you need a blog/website or youtube account.
2. Include your full name, mailing address, contact number( for Malaysian contestant) and also the link  of the entry you had done) so that I can verify the authenticity of the entry and also to send the book to you via mail. ( E-mail:  gurgle_86@yahoo.com).
3. Include a link of this entry  on your website or blog with the Title of the link, "ITS EXTREMELY LOUD AND CLOSE"
4. Only one entry is allowed in any of the the following stated above.
5. The last date of submission will be on the 29th of February 2012.

The random book review: The client

Author: John Grisham
Publication date: 1994
synopsis
Eleven year old Mark Sway and his younger brother Ricky were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sough-after dead body in America


Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all but four years


Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client- even take a last desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom ..... or cost them both their lives.
Review on the book: 
I love how the plot goes as Mark is in deep trouble for knowing such a live changing secret. How his world is turned upside down by a desperate and group of legal prosecutors and a bad bullying mafia head. Even though Mark is eleven in the book, John Grisham tells him in such a way that his a very real and functioning character, when in truth he is only a kid.
The energy from the first page to the last is relentless- truly gripping that you wouldn't want to put the book down. The narrative just flows from one chapter to another seamlessly


randomdotfm book rating:
*Highly recommendable read*