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Win 8 iPads for your reading group!

To celebrate all the great crime and thriller novels in this year's Galaxy National Book Awards, Reading Groups for Everyone has teamed up with the Galaxy National Book Awards to offer reading groups a fantastic opportunity to win 8 iPads.

To enter, your group will need to make a video review of a crime or thriller novel from the shortlist for this year's Galaxy National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year. It doesn't have to be long - up to 1 minute - but we would like it to entertain us. The deadline for entries is 6 February 2012.

How to enter

Your group will need to be a member of Reading Groups for Everyone to enter the competition - so join now if you aren't already a member. If you are, log in, click the banner and enter below.

Once your group has made your crime or thriller video review, upload it to a YouTube account, and then paste the embed code into the competition entry form

Good luck!

Galaxy National Book Awards: Crime & Thriller of the Year Shortlist

Before I Go to Sleep cover Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson (Doubleday)
The Fear Index cover The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Hutchinson)
Heartstone cover Heartstone by CJ Samsom (Pan)
The Family cover The Family by Martina Cole (Headline)
The Impossible Dead cover The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin (Orion)
Trick of the Dark cover Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid (Sphere)
Available on iBookstore

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Galaxy National Book Awards Reading Group competition terms and conditions

  1. No purchase necessary to enter the competition.
  2. This competition is open to UK residents aged 18 years or over, with the exception of employees of the Promoter, their families, agents and anyone else connected with this promotion.
  3. Entries must be received by midnight on 16 January 2012. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the relevant closing date for any reason. Proof of posting or sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are invalid. Entries become the property of the Promoter and are not returned.
  4. Only one entry per person/reading group. No entrant may win more than one prize.
  5. Entries are only admissible from members of Reading Groups for Everyone www.readinggroups.org
  6. To enter your reading group will need to make a video review up to one minute in length of a crime or thriller novel your reading group have read and submit the embed code in your entry form at www.readinggroups.org/galaxynationalbookawards
  7. All correctly completed entries will be forwarded to a judging panel made up of people from Agile Marketing and The Reading Agency and an author. The winning group will be the entry that in the opinion of the judges has created the most entertaining crime video review
  8. The prize for the winning group is 8 iPads. If there are fewer than 8 members in a reading group, they will be given a number of iPads equal to reading group members.
  9. In the event that the winning group cannot be contacted and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the prize to a substitute winner.
  10. The judges' decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
  11. The prizes are non-transferrable and no cash alternative will be offered.
  12. Prizes are subject to availability. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right (a) to substitute alternative prizes of equivalent or greater value and (b) in exceptional circumstances to amend or foreclose the promotion without notice. No correspondence will be entered into.
  13. The winner will be notified via email or post by 6 February 2012. The winner must claim their prize within 30 days of the Promoter sending notification. If the prize is unclaimed after this time, it will lapse and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected in accordance with these rules.
  14. By entering this competition each entrant confirms that his/her entry is their wholly-owned creation and to the extent that such entry makes use of any third party materials that these have been fully cleared unless they are no longer protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. Entrants will keep the Promoter harmless from any claims in relation to their entry that in so far as the entry infringes the personal or proprietary right of any other person. By submitting an entry, each entrant grants to the Promoter a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to edit, publish, translate, modify, adapt, make available and distribute the entry throughout the world in any media now known or hereafter invented. Each entrant undertakes to complete any necessary documentation to formalise the licence. If you do not want to grant us these rights, please do not submit materials to us.
  15. To obtain details of the winner please email readinggroupscomp@readingagency.org.uk stating the name of the competition in the subject heading 4 weeks after the closing date.
  16. The Promoter will use any data submitted by entrants only for the purposes of running the competition, unless otherwise stated in the entry details. By entering this competition, all entrants consent to the use of their personal data by the Promoter for the purposes of the administration of this competition and any other purposes to which the entrant has consented.
  17. The winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity.
  18. By entering the competition each entrant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.
  19. The Promoter is The Reading Agency (www.readingagency.org.uk)
  20. These terms and conditions are governed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales