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 Aileen Adler.

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

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.

The Earth Hums in B Flat is Mari Strachan's first novel. It's a detective novel set in 1950s Wales featuring young Gwenni Morgan - who is fond of strawberry whip, detective stories and difficult questions. She's good at finding clues, but rarely understands what she knows. The story is told from Gwenni's point of view so the reader both shares her incomprehension when faced with the adult world and can piece together the secrets that Gwenni cannot.

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

Update: The Lost Book ran until July 2009 and is now finished - apart from lots of books like this one that are still travelling and finding new readers!

Just breaking in to say that there are reading questions available on Mari Strachan's website: http://bit.ly/ghhLB

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

This is travelling to rhythmbiscuit in the USA as fourth prize for the Invisible Inc. secret society of bibliophiles release challenge. Congratulations, rhythmbiscuit, and I hope you enjoy the book.

Thank you so much for this book! I had fun participating in The Lost Book and in the Invisible Inc. challenge.

I included this book in waternixie's Wrap-It-Up bookbox. The first sentence is "I fly in my sleep every night."

Picked from the Wrap-it-up Book Box.