THE NIGHTMARE CLUB PLACE NAMES COMPETITION

Little Island would like to pass on the message below from author Annie Graves regarding the Dublin Place Names Competition, in celebration of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature:

Hey there, all you dead smart readers of my deadly books! Listen up, now, if you like cake and can read …

Right, so there are twelve clues in total, hidden inside my four wonderful Nightmare Club books (here, here, here and here), and what you are looking for are Dublin place names. So, for example, there might be (there isn’t but there might be, it’s just an example) … there might be a character called O’Connell. And you would say, ‘Hey, O’Connell Street, that’s a place in Dublin.’

That is how you solve the clues. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Only they are not as OBVIOUS as O’Connell Street, obviously. 

So then, when you have solved all the clues, click here and you get this form thingy and you write in the answers. That’s how you get the cake. Or at least, that’s how you get invited to the Meeting with Cake (or party, if you are from Glasnevin).

Twelve unlucky winners will be invited to the cake thingy, and one of the twelve, the unluckiest of all, will also win a book token for a million pounds. (Hah! There aren’t any pounds any more, that was a joke.) I mean, a whole lot of euro. (But not a million. Come on, they are little tiny publishers.)

OK, so watch out for the street names and place names, all in Dublin, as you read the story, and write them down. And then get the next book and do the same. And the next, and the next. They are all called The Nightmare Club (books 1 to 4, down there, see?) and I wrote them. That’s how you know which ones to get, clever, eh? Dead clever. 

Your friend,

Annie Graves

PS: Not everyone who gets all twelve right can have the cake thingy, there isn’t enough room and there isn’t enough cake, so if more than twelve of yous get it right, there will have to be a raffle. OK? And if you can't guess all twelve, send a message anyway - they're pretty tough, so NO ONE might guess them all.

PPS: The last day for entering the competition is The Last Day. Of 2011. Easy date to remember: the last day is the last day.