Welcome to The Lost Book!

The Lost Book is a collaborative adventure in storytelling. It’s taking place online and anyone can join in. At its heart is an animated web series: the adventures of 21st century investigative journalist, and BookCrosser, Aileen Adler. Episode 2, the first of five episodes to be written by the public, was launched on Friday 06 March 2009. It sees intrepid Scottish journalist Aileen and her dog Watson travelling to Iowa City in search of a stolen book and a secret society of bibliophiles - watch the story so far.

Where the story goes next remains in your hands. You can suggest plot developments by visiting www.thelostbook.net now. Each month between now and July the storylines will be pulled together into the next episode, animated and published online.

There are loads of ways you can get involved and it won’t cost you anything. You can help us to write the story for the web series. You can join our special guest writer Jasper Fforde to reconstruct a stolen book in our weekly microstory competition. You can enter our soundtrack competition by creating your own music for the web series. You can produce your own animation.

And, you can read this book, tell us what you thought of it, give it away, and follow its journey.

The Lost Book is a partner project to the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust’s 2009 reading campaign, The Lost World Read 2009, which is using free books, online resources and events to get people reading The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World Read is the largest collaborative reading project ever seen in the UK. We're extending the reading campaign, thanks to the generosity of project sponsors Canongate, by giving away other free books throughout The Lost Book.

Buddha Da is a a charming study of family relationships, and how people close to us react when we change, all written in Glaswegian Scots with the three narrators' individual voices shining through. It was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. This is a gorgeous new repackaged edition.

So join in, wherever you are, and have fun!

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

This book is travelling to GoldenHind in Australia, who won it in our RABCK draw. Happy reading, GoldenHind!

Just received this book today. A bit of damage has been done to the lower 1/3 of the book in traveling to Australia. I can repair it, but unfortunately it will leave a few creases on the
front cover. It might be advisable for future mailing to Australia,to put the books in a smaller bag so as not to allow any movement inside the bag. I will add this book to my TBR pile as I have at least another 2 or 3 to read first. I will journal it again when I have finished reading it . Thankyou kindly for the RABCK.

Not a bad read. I found the first half humorous. I could just imagine Billy Connolly telling the story. Also it took some getting used to because the book is written in, "the Scottish accent". However, I felt that the second half of the story was lacking. I was waiting for a climax or a punch-line or something but it didn't deliver. To be honest I got a bit bored with it. Perhaps if it had more on the Buddhist's beliefs or philosophies , it would have held my interest better.

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Sending to glenystasmania. in Maydena Tasmania.

Really looking forward to reading this one, I have heard that it is a good book

Loved the story with this book, must admit I found the first few chapters a bit hard, because of the scottish dialect and spelling....but then I imagined Jimmy Nail as the character and it got easier for me....Jimmy Nail is possibly not Scottish but never mind it worked for me!
I quite enjoyed how different members of the family took it in turn to tell the story, I havent read many books that have had that kind of approach and I quite liked it, especially when you had an event, and you then got the chance to see it from more than one viewpoint. Great!

the endearing story of a working class man who discovers Buddhism.