Yes, today Bookgeeks is one year old. Simon A’s first review, of Iain M Banks’ Matter, went live a year ago today. Since then, Simon and Mathew have been joined by some superb additions to the crew, and between them have reviewed about 150 books in a year.

We have moved to our own server, had a proper identity designed for us, and hopefully gotten better as we have gotten bigger. To celebrate our joyous day, we would love to give you all cake, but we sense that would be a tad impractical, so instead, we are offering you a chance to win proof copies of some of the books we have read and reviewed over the last year. The following titles are up for grabs:

• Last Argument of Kings, by Joe Abercrombie
• Principles of Angels, by Jaine Fenn
• The Bird Room, by Chris Killen
• Show Me the Sky, by Nicholas Hogg
• Under Control, by Mark McNay
• We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, by James Meek
• The Steel Remains, by Richard Morgan
• House of Suns, by Alastair Reynolds
• Yellow Blue Tibia, by Adam Roberts
• Far North, by Marcel Theroux

The winners will be picked one at a time and given their choice of prize – so the first person has the choice from all the books, and then it narrows down from there. Thanks to the publishers who supplied the prizes: Faber & Faber, Canongate and Gollancz.

To be in with a chance, answer the following question using the form below (sorry, due to postage costs it’s UK entries only):

Which of these people does NOT share our birthday of February 22nd?

a. Chris Moyles

b. Drew Barrymore

c. Queen Elizabeth II

Terms and Conditions

1. Closing date for entries: 21st March 2009.
2. Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
3. Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
4. The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
5. Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookgeeks and offered their choice of available titles. The webmaster’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. The winner’s name may be published on the Bookgeeks website after the closing date of the competition.
7. The competition is not open to Bookgeeks contributors and their families, or to Orion, Faber or Canongate employees and their families.
8. Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday dear u-u-u-u-s, happy birthday to us!

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