Here are the results of our most recent newsletter competition…

Last week, we had a set of new Canongate editions of Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy to give away, courtesy of the publishers. We asked:

The publication of Silent Spring led to widespread concern and the eventual banning of which widely-used pesticide in the USA?

And the answer is: DDT. The winner is Paul Roberts. Your books should be with you very soon!

To be in with the chance of winning our next prize – one of three copies of Kyoko Nakajima’s short story collection Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, recently published by Sort Of – make sure you’re signed up to our mailing list. The sign-up bar is on the right-hand side of this page.