Free book from Gallic books

Chocmonster7

My book arrived today, it's lovely!

*UpsyDaisy*

Got mine today thank you... I went for The Suicide Shop.. looks great

MsCrow

Thanks again; mine arrived today and I'm so impressed. I'm always on the look out for new authors and think their catalogue is great so I will be ordering at usual price for them as their service was so excellent.

missingink

trrk wrote: »

This will generate an email:

Special offer: Join our mailing list before March 2010 and receive a FREE book of your choice from our Autumn/Winter 2009 catalogue

Full Name:

Postal Address:

The title I would like:

Please add me to the Gallic Books mailing list and send me a catalogue. Thank you!

When I click on the link to sign up, the email doesn't contain 'The title I would like:':confused: Is this something you add yourself?

luckyjasond

missingink wrote: »

When I click on the link to sign up, the email doesn't contain 'The title I would like:':confused: Is this something you add yourself?

It seems they've stopped the promotion; probably they have been flooded with requests.

The special offer what comes up with the e-mail now is

Special offer: Go to www.biggreenbookshop.com, buy a Gallic book of your choice and enter a draw to win 2 free Eurostar tickets to Paris, France.

trrk

I guess they were not counting on their offer being promoted on sites like this one (and the forum of Readitswapit where I first came across this offer)!

Noggin_the_Nog_2

My cousin has been trying to improve his French and has been buying both novels in the original French and in the English translation (some of them Gallic titles) so that he can read them as a parallel text if he gets stuck - he says that even with the biggest dictionary, a lot of the vocabulary can't be found and even if it can, the meaning isn't clear so it's handy to have the book in English.

If you're interested in doing this and getting the French originals, Amazon UK has some but if not you can order on Amazon France - your normal log-in works and they have your account details already stored so as long as you know enough French to know which buttons to press, you're fine! You have to pay a bit extra on postage but not much.

daisy4legs

Thanks for this, perhaps they might offer some more freebies in future.I will keep looking.

cadburymisshape

That's interesting! I've looked on Amazon before to buy novels in french but always got worried about VAT / tax whatever. Do you know if you just follow the usual process and if you have to pay it, it gets included?

Noggin_the_Nog wrote: »

My cousin has been trying to improve his French and has been buying both novels in the original French and in the English translation (some of them Gallic titles) so that he can read them as a parallel text if he gets stuck - he says that even with the biggest dictionary, a lot of the vocabulary can't be found and even if it can, the meaning isn't clear so it's handy to have the book in English.

TurkishDelight

cadburymisshape wrote: »

That's interesting! I've looked on Amazon before to buy novels in french but always got worried about VAT / tax whatever. Do you know if you just follow the usual process and if you have to pay it, it gets included?

You may pay a little extra in postage, but you won't pay any import duty due to EU free trade