TTAB News

The Missing by Jane Casey Competition is CLOSED
01 March 2010

This book giveaway is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who entered. A list of the lucky 10 winners will be posted shortly.

Winners List for The Missing competition
01 March 2010

Congratulations to the following individuals who have been lucky enough to be chosen at random to win a free copy of The Missing by Jane Casey! Our ten lucky winners are:

Mike Cambridge
Sue Cranfield
Colin Doogan
Chris Edmonds
Sue Hall
Amanda Hutchings
Asdrid James
Tracey Rollings
Bob Slipper
Richard Sutherland

Winners are reminded to allow 28 days for delivery... Oh, and we hope you enjoy the book as much as we did!

NEW! Book Giveaway!
01 February 2010

We're very pleased to announce that we now have an additional competition/ book giveaway for this month. This will be a members exclusive (registration is free, quick and simple).

To celebrate the astonishing debut novel from Jane Casey, we will be giving away 10 copies of her book: The Missing.

Further details can be found on our current competitions page, so make sure you check it out and get your answers in asap - or risk losing out!

Good luck!

Wishing You All a Happy New Year!
31 December 2009

2009 has been a tough year for most of us, but we'd like to think that 2010 has only great things in store...

We will be continuing to improve our website, adding more interactive features as well as looking out for great new competitions in addition to our regular Readers' Choice. We'll keep you informed at to progress on this...

Finally, we'd like to thank all our members, visitors, authors and publishers who support us and enable us to bring you the truth about books! Thank you!

Here's to 2010!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
03 December 2009

Just wishing all our members and readers a very merry Christmas 2009! A big thank you for all your continued support and we hope that 2010 will bring bigger and better things for TTAB.

SITE NOT UPDATED
31 August 2009

Apologies to all our readers and members for the continued disruption to our website over the past few months. This has been due to a combination of staffing issues and ill health.

We are now trying to move things forward and load more book reviews on the site, but are not, as yet, updating our blog. We are, however, trying to get our latest reviews updated on Twitter- so those following us there can keep up with what's going on.

We anticiapte that our regular competition will be up and running again for December, but please bear in mind that if there is an error loading message - it means that the competition is NOT available.

Thank you for all your patience and support.

WEBSITE DOWN DURING AUGUST 2009
19 August 2009

We apologise to all our members and readers for the delayed notification, but TTAB's website will not be updated during August 2009 due to unforeseen circumstances, which has meant the team has been unavailable.
This also affects our regular book competition - there will be no competition for the month of August.
We are hopeful that the situation will be rectified shortly and that things will get back to normal in September. We will update our News if there is to be any further delay in getting the site going again.
Thanks to everyone for their understanding and patience - this should be a one off!!

PRESS RELEASE: The Truth About Books is getting a design overhaul
03 June 2009

The Truth About Books is an independent online book review resource dedicated to providing consumers with an honest appraisal of any and all books.

Unlike many other book review websites, The Truth About Books is not a bookseller and therefore can maintain its unbiased view of the books it reviews. It also boasts quality book reviews provided by a dedicated team of experienced book critics; thereby ensuring its reviews are written to a high standard.

But did you know that The Truth About Books also provides author interviews, author biographies and regular competitions for its users?

Well, after several months of design work, The Truth About Books is pleased to announce official development work on an improved design and layout for its website is now underway. The new-look website is not due to be completed until the end of 2009, but visitors will be able to expect many new features especially tailored towards encouraging customer interaction and improved accessibility to all the sites’ features such as: quick submit book review / author interview suggestions; author snippets; book price comparison and much, much more.

About....Ryan Sherwood
19 May 2009

We've got an exclusive interview with the author of this month's Book of the Month, Ryan Sherwood - in it, we discover just what it is that makes him tick and much more...
Read the interview in the 'About Authors' section - you will have to register, but it's a free and relatively painless process. Enjoy!

We are now on Twitter!!
06 May 2009

Yes, we have dragged ourselves kicking and screaming into the very modern age of Twitter!

You can follow us at : http://twitter.com/bookreviews. Where we tweet our recently uploaded new book reviews - think of it as your link to the best book reviews around on the web (we do!!)

**TTAB expands its horizons**
10 April 2009

The Truth About Books is proud to announce that it has added Little Brown publishing to its swelling ranks of supporters. Little Brown has twice received the KPMG publisher of the year award - and as such, we are extremely pleased that they have agreed to work with us - as this means that we can continue to bring you the very best of the lastest book releases and help you find that next great book to read!

TTAB is committed to delivering quality book reviews to on our online membership and the general public. We are confident that by diversifying and continuing to expand our reach withing the publishing industry, we can ensure that we provide genuine, informative and above all, independent and honest appraisals of all the books we review.

World Book Day gets celebrated on TTAB
01 March 2009

If you check out our regular competition, this won't come as a surprise to you - this month only, to celebrate World Book Day - we are going to give away ALL 3 TITLES in our competition. We'll still have an overall winner, but we thought we'd share our love of books around a bit this month and get 3 of our readers the chance to win a free book - on us!

All you have to do is vote for the book, or books, that you would be interested in winning and then sit back and wait eagerly to find out if you are selected at random as one our winners! Voting is completely FREE and you don't even have to register to vote. We honestly can't think of any better way to bag yourself a free book.

So get voting NOW!!!!

About... Simon Packham
09 February 2009

After deciding that Simon Packham's riotous debut novel deserved to be our book of the month, we realised that it might be good to let our members find out what makes him tick...
Read the insightful and occassionally funny interview with this outstanding new novelist by going to our About Authors section.
If you aren't yet a member, you will need to register - but there's nothing complicated about the process and best of all - it's FREE!
Enjoy!

The TTAB Team

Merry Christmas & Have a Happy New Year!
01 December 2008

We’re particularly excited at TTAB about Christmas this year as it heralds the end of our first year in business – Hurrah! We’d like to thank all our members and everyone else who have helped make this a great first year – and we hope to improve the site and make it more interactive for you in the year to come.

All the best, TTAB Team!

We’ve Been On Holiday!
01 September 2008

Yes, it was somewhere nice – and hot! What this means is that we haven’t been able to upload all the book reviews we’ve been doing in the meantime. Please bear with us as we try to catch up this month. Best wishes, all at TTAB.

TTAB has a Blog!
01 August 2008

It’s official – although for some this may be old news, but we do have our very own blog. You can check it out here.

Why bother? Well, our blog is where you will find out all the latest news, some author interview preview snippets and the potential to feed back to us what your thoughts are on our main site, as well as just general stuff. So go on – take a quick peek – you might like it!

New Competitions!
01 July 2008

We have TWO new competitions for you COMING SOON this month!

1. Members can enter for the chance to win one of 5 free copies of a brilliant new crime/thriller novel by Robert Gregory Browne - Whisper in the Dark.

Competition entry is free and each winner will receive a free copy of Whisper in the Dark. For your chance to win, make sure you are a registered member (it's free to join) and check back regularly for this amazing competition... not to be missed!!

You can also read our interview with the author (Robert Gregory Browne) and our book review to satiate your appetite in the meantime...

2. We are extremely pleased to let you know that we are planning a new competition whereby members can enter for free for a chance to win a signed first edition copy of The Enemy's Son by James Johnson. There are only TWO copies available – so you’ll need to hurry and enter before these are gone!

This is a must have collector's item - especially for you SF fans out there!

Site ReLaunch
01 June 2008

Our site has received a major overhaul (long overdue, we know), and the new site will be LIVE from 1st June 2008. We really hope that you will appreciate the new look and features. As a free member you can enjoy:

All our current reviews
Author interviews, as well as author biographies so you can learn a little more about your favourite authors,
visit our For Parents section to find the next book for your children
Free entry into our monthly Readers’ Choice competition

In the coming weeks, we will be adding RSS feeds (so you can keep in touch with the latest additions to our site), a For Parents competition where you can win up to 3 children’s books and sign up to our regular newsletter, which will be jammed packed full of the latest news, book reviews and Recommended Reads.

If you are already a subscriber, you will, however, need to re-register. Don’t worry – this takes a matter of seconds and it is still FREE to be a member. If you have links to our site, these will obviously need to be re-linked to make sure they continue to work. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please do not re-link for another week, as we are still moving over to our new host. This will not affect the ability of the site to function, or members to re-subscribe.

TTAB ReDesign - Update
01 May 2008

Work is continuing on the redesign of our website and we appreciate everyone's patience with us. We will be announcing the launch date in the next few weeks. Obviously, there will be some disruption as this takes place, but we hope to keep this to a minimum for our members.

New Additions to TTAB Site!
11 April 2008

TTAB now has more sections to help users find the book reviews they want! We are especially pleased with the introduction of a "For Parents" section, dedicated to provided parents with a list of the best educational children's books currently on the market.

Delay in Launch of TTAB ReDesign
05 April 2008

The team at TTAB have been working tirelessly on the new look redesign of the TTAB website. Whilst some progress has been made, due to unforeseen problems, the launch of the new website (expected at the end of March 2008) has been postponed. We will keep everyone up to date on progress and of course, we will let you know when you can expect our new look to arrive!