Featuring the accomplished baritone Dazeley, these beautiful, expressive examples of early 20th century chamber music represent three of the Belle Epoque's leading composers. Charles Loeffler is said to have rejected his German roots and claimed Alsace heritage, so strongly did he identify with France's trailblazing cultural move towards modernity.

September is Mr Jack's Birthday and this year the good folk at Jack Daniel's are bringing Tennessee to Town with a month of fantastic giveaways and an exclusive gig featuring Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley, Ellie Goulding and Tennessee guitar legend Duane Eddy.
In addition to their original material all four will bring the spirit of Tennessee to life when they perform a Jack Daniel's birthday exclusive of very special collaborations themed around great Americana classics.
They follow in the footsteps of Patti Smith, Frank Black and Flaming Lips who are just some of the names to have played at previous Birthday gigs.
Jack Daniel's long standing association with music began in the late 1800's when he created a band of musicians that performed to crowds of people around the state of Tennessee, the home place of Jack Daniel's whiskey.

We have tickets for you and a mate to attend this exclusive gig, which takes place at The Clapham Grand in London on 7th October. To ensure this will be an unforgettable evening, Jack Daniel's will arrange for you and your friend to be trained to make whiskey cocktails tailored to your taste buds! Before the gig you will take part in a master class to learn how to make the perfect Jack Daniel's drink.

We also have 3 pairs of runner up prizes of tickets and goody bags for the prize winners.

To enter, answer this question:

ÿIn which US state is the home place of Jack Daniel's whiskey? ÿÿÿ

•ÿÿ ÿTennessee

•ÿÿ ÿVirginia ÿÿ

•ÿÿ ÿTexas

For more information on the ‘Tennessee Is Coming To Town' Birthday gig go to www.jacksbirthday.co.uk

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Terms and Conditions

Entrants must be over 18. TC's apply. Competition deadline is Friday 24th September.

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A total of 138 books, 14 of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen' longlist of 13 books. We are offering one lucky reader a chance to win ALL Thirteen of them!

The longlist includes:

Authorÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Title (Publisher)

Peter Careyÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿ ÿ Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber) Buy

Emma Donoghueÿÿÿ Room ÿÿÿ (Pan MacMillan - Picador) Buy

Helen Dunmoreÿÿÿ ÿ The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree) Buy

Damon Galgutÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books) Buy

Howard Jacobsonÿ The Finkler Questionÿ (Bloomsbury) Buy

Andrea Levyÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿ The Long Songÿ (Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review) Buy

Tom McCarthyÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ C (Random House - Jonathan Cape) Buy

David Mitchellÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoetÿ (Hodder Stoughton - Sceptre) Buy

Lisa Mooreÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿÿÿÿ February (Random House - Chatto Windus) Buy

Paul Murrayÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton) Buy

Rose Tremainÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿ Trespass (Random House - Chatto Windus) Buy

Christos Tsiolkasÿÿÿÿ The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock) Buy

Alan Warnerÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ ÿÿÿ The Stars in the Bright Skyÿ (Random House - Jonathan Cape) Buy

The chair of judges, Andrew Motion, comments:

“Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors. Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling. We feel confident that they will provoke and entertain.”

Peter Carey is one of only two authors to have won the prize twice, in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang.ÿ In 1985 his book Illywhacker was shortlisted for the prize and Theft: A Love Story was longlisted in 2006.

Three authors have been shortlisted before: David Mitchell (twice shortlisted in 2001 for number9dream and in 2004 for Cloud Atlas), Damon Galgut (in 2003 for The Good Doctor) and Rose Tremain (shortlisted in 1989 for Restoration). She was also a judge for the Booker Prize in 1988 and 2000.

Howard Jacobson has been longlisted twice for his book Kalooki Nights in 2006 and for Who's Sorry Now? in 2002.

The 2010 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 7 September at a press conference at Man Group's London headquarters.ÿ The winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 will be revealed on Tuesday 12 October at a dinner at London's Guildhall and will be broadcast on the BBC Ten O'Clock News.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction will receive <50,000 and can look forward to greatly increased sales and worldwide recognition.ÿ Each of the six shortlisted authors, including the winner, will receive <2,500 and a designer bound edition of their shortlisted book.

To enter, answer this question:

Which author on the longlist has been shortlisted twice before?

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Terms and Conditions

Please refer to our Offers Competitions TC's

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To celebrate the release of Dogtooth on DVD BLURAY on September 13th and we have five copies to give away.

★★★★★
“Challenging, funny and rich...highly recommended” Time Out

Verve Pictures are pleased to announce that Yorgos Lanthimos's inspired and provocative film ‘Dogtooth', winner of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival 2009, will be released on DVD BLURAY on September 13th.

‘Dogtooth' is a darkly comic insight into a surreal world of parental control gone mad. Three teenagers are
grounded in an alternate world by their overprotective parents, when a female outsider bursts into their
bizarre family bubble, with shocking and strangely amusing results.

MOTHER (Michelle Valley) and FATHER (Christos Stergioglou) are so desperate to preserve their children's
innocence that they create a self styled utopia within their secluded compound walls. Completely shut off
from the outside world, the now grown up children have their own vocabulary and believe cats to be man
eating predators, aeroplanes flying overhead to be toys and small yellow flowers to be zombies. When their
father decides to invite his colleague CHRISTINA (Anna Kalaitzidou) in to service the sexual urges of the
SON (Christos Pasalis) the domestic balance is irrevocably disturbed. It isn't long before the OLDER
DAUGHTER (Aggeliki Papoulia), YOUNGER DAUGHTER (Mary Tsoni) and SON start experimenting with
sexuality and violence and the walls of their superficially constructed world of childhood innocence and
fantasy come tumbling down.

As shocking and brutal as it is humorous, elegant and entertaining, Dogtooth is a significant piece of bold and inventive cinema.

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Terms and Conditions

Please refer to our Offers Competitions TC's

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