Indiana Jones Competition!                            

How would you like to win some of the new Indiana Jones books?

What do you have to do? Just answer these two simple questions and e-mail them to me at competitions@booksmonthly.co.uk together with your name and address to confirm you're a UK resident

Question 1: Of the three original Indiana Jones films, which one comes first in terms of the year in which it is set?

Question 2: Name the actor who, other than Harrison Ford, appeared in each of the original three films. (Here's a clue: he played a different character in each film)

You could win one of five sets of the five fantastic new Indy books pictured above! Closing date May 31st 2008. Prizes kindly supplied by Dorling Kindersley and Random House (UK). You'll find my review of THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES pictured above and below right on the fantasy page, where it's my book of the month. So come on! What are you waiting for? You're just an e-mail away from winning five great Indy books. . . . .

You can read my reviews of several of the new Indy books in this issue - they appear on the fantasy page, the nonfiction page and some of the publisher pages, as well as in the feature article: Indiana Jones New Books

THE ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES - just one of the new Indy titles to be won this month. Published by Bantam, May 5, 2008, £7.99 to coincide with the worldwide release in May of the NEW Indiana Jones film – Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. With his battered leather jacket, his trademark Fedora and his bullwhip, Indiana Jones has gone in search of adventure, confronted danger and unearthed an untold wealth of ancient treasures... In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the fearless archaeologist journeys from Nepal to Cairo to the Mediterranean , dodging poisons, traps and snakes, battling rivals old and new – in pursuit of an ancient artifact that holds the key to dazzling, invincible power. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom finds our intrepid hero in a remote village in India, where a mysterious shaman tells him that his arrival has been foreseen – and that he must retrieve a stolen mystical stone. And finally, Indy faces the most challenging and personal endeavour of his life: to rescue his estranged father, the eminent professor Dr. Henry Jones, from a Nazi’s lair, and recover the legendary Holy Grail. Yet Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade doesn’t mean the adventure is over. . .

More Indiana Jones new books next month!

In last month's competitions....                            ^back to top of page

.....there were two prizes: HERBERT von KARAJAN ~ A LIFE IN MUSIC by Richard Osborne - forty-two correct entries for this competition, and the correct answer was SALZBURG. I know Karajan was associated with the Berlin and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, but the main city with which he was associated was Salzburg, where he was second only to Mozart and often more well-known. Also, of course, he founded the SALZBURG EASTER FESTIVAL. A computer programme, www.random.org was used to generate two random numbers from a list of the winners, and the winners are: Jo Jones and Lucy Pugh, who should receive their prizes direct from the publishers within a short while. The second competition was for signed copies of JOE RAT, and the winners are: Thomas Leigh, Rose Chambers, Erin Bradshaw, Robin Steed and Charlotte Jones. Again, they will receive their prizes direct from the publisher. Thank you to all who entered, and if you were unlucky this time round, why not have a go at the Indiana Jones competition?

In the May Issue...                                              ^back to top of page