The new London Review of Books arrived this morning, with a fabulous competition: to win a bottle of champagne and £100 to spend in the best bookshop in London, their own, all you have to do is to guess correctly the date on which Tony Blair will leave office. There's no entry form on the web site, so any one wanting to enter will have to buy a copy, which will do no one any harm at all, even if only you only look at the legendary personals.
Example: "Justify my strop. 24/7 PMS-suffering woman seeks man to 35 prone to inadvertently saying the wrong thing (which is everything) at the wrong time (which is always). If you whistle, I will kill you. You have been warned. Chocolate (lots of it, please) to box no NNN"
There's also an interesting diary by John Sutherland on trends in book-selling.
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