Sign up to be a giver of books on World Book Night 2012. All you have to do is choose a book from the short list that you have read and enjoyed – and apply to be a giver on 23 April. See the World Book Night shortlist for 2012
Friends I have talked to have found it almost impossible to understand that books are given away. They are not chosen fromyour own bookshelf but provided by the individuals, publishers and sponsors who want to spread a love of reading.
Here is a list of World Book Night sponsors:
Patrons
The Patrons of World Book Night are:
- Damon Albarn
- Margaret Atwood
- Sir Richard Branson
- Nick Cave
- Tracy Chevalier
- Roddy Doyle
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Dave Eggers
- Sir Richard Eyre
- Colin Firth
- Richard Flanagan
- David Gilmour
- Antony Gormley
- Seamus Heaney
- Damien Hirst
- Lewis Hyde
- Howard Jacobson
- Nigella Lawson
- Andrew Motion
- Mary Portas
- Philip Pullman
- Dame Gail Rebuck
- JK Rowling
- Polly Samson
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Ali Smith
- Sir Tom Stoppard
- Tilda Swinton
- Dominic West
Sponsors & Supporters
World Book Night are grateful for the support of the following in making World Book Night happen in 2011
The Publishers
Our thanks go to the publishing houses that have supported World Book Night, and especially to those who provided the titles for World Book Night 2011
- Bantam, who have provided copies of Killing Floor by Lee Child
- Black Swan, who have provided copies of Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- Bloomsbury, who have provided copies of Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
- Canongate, who have provided copies of Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Faber, who have provided copies of New Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney and A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- Fourth Estate, who have provided copies of Stuart by Alexander Masters and Toast by Nigel Slater
- Harper Perennial, who have provided copies of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Hodder, who have provided copies of One Day by David Nicholls
- Pan, who have provided copies of Dissolution by C.J. Sansom
- Penguin, who have provided copies of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré, Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes,The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Picador, who have provided copies of The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
- Profile, who have provided copies of A Life Like Other People’s by Alan Bennett
- Sceptre, who have provided copies of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Scholastic, who have provided copies of Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
- Vintage, who have provided copies of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Beloved by Toni Morrison and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Virago, who have provided copies of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
All you have to do as a reader is to contribute to the big give-away.
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