World Book Night

Today is World Book Night. 

It's pretty cool. 

It's a national celebration of reading and it's run by The Reading Agency (who are also pretty cool). 

You can read all about it HERE.

One of the big aims of World Book Night is to give people who, for one reason or another don't read regularly, a chance to get their hands on a book. And getting a book into someone's hands is something i'm all for. 

So I was delighted when they got in touch with me recently and asked if I could do a special #buyastrangerabook day on Twitter to help mark World Book Night. 

And so here we are. 

For those of you who don't know what #buyastrangerabook is, then it's pretty simple. 

People can either ask for a book, which is then paid for by another person, or else people pledge money, or tweet me that they will #buyastrangerabook and then, when someone asks for a book, they pay for it. 

The Big Issue wrote about it HERE.

The Independent wrote about it RIGHT HERE.

So, to kick off this very special day, the lovely people in the World Book Night cave have asked me to give away five books. 

For FREE!

Just because they love books and they want to do it.

Tweet me at @biggreenbooks and five lucky people will get books. 

If you would like to #buyastrangerabook today, tweet me and let's make this the most amazing World Book Night ever.