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 investigative journalist, and BookCrosser, Aileen Adler. Episode 5, the fourth of five episodes to be written by the public, was launched on Friday 19 June 2009. It sees intrepid Scottish journalist Aileen and her dog Watson escaping from the baddies' clutches thanks to 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. During July the storylines will be pulled together into the final 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 even 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 by BookCrossing other books. Kidnapped was the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust's 2007 reading campaign novel and is a great read.

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

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

A book for the release table at the BCUK UnCon, Edinburgh 2009. It might be picked up by a BookCrosser on Saturday, or released somewhere in Edinburgh on Sunday.

If you've found this book - welcome to BookCrossing! I hope you enjoy Kidnapped and then pass it on to continue its journey. It'd be great to find out where it has travelled to and read your review. You can stay completely anonymous if you prefer, or you can join BookCrossing (it's free) if you'd like to take part in this booklovers' community.

To find out more about the adventure of The Lost Book, go to the website at www.thelostbook.net and to read more about The Lost World and the reading campaign check out www.lostworldread.com.

Picked this up from the table at the unconvention. It's on the 1st Ed of the 1001 books to read before you die - which i am currently slowly working through!!!