Found a book?

Author Steve Barton is leaving copies of his book in public places. Here's an en exert from his website:

I have stupid ideas. I mean really stupid ideas. Without doubt the most stupendous was to open a restaurant with absolutely no experience, 200 miles away from home in a town I’d never visited before. But I’ve also had many, many smaller, but just as stupid, ideas. My latest, as an author, is to give my book away totally free. Actually, once you have ignored the fact that I’m encouraging people not to buy my book but instead give them the opportunity to read it for free, I think this is quite a fun idea.

I have left copies of Burnt! in public places: Café’s, restaurants, buses etc in the hope that someone will find it, read it, enjoy it and then in turn leave it somewhere different for someone else to find. I hope that people will be creative and leave the books in places where they stand a chance of reaching a wide audience: Take it on holiday or leave it in a hotel room.

By recording where books have been found and subsequently left, the journey the book takes can be tracked. To assist with this each book has been given an identifying ‘name’; each one relating to a celebrity chef (just to keep with a theme). So if you have found Gordon strewn across a park bench early one Saturday morning, or if you have been lucky enough to discover Nigella in your hotel room, please record the details here.

If you have found Gordon please post here

If you have found Jamie please post here

More celebrity books will be left in various counties over the coming weeks.

Far from stupid, this is a brilliant idea to get people to read your book and pass it on to other readers. Best of luck with it.