Alex Rider Backpack and Tshirt

This week Walker Books have got one really cool prize to give away, an Alex Rider backpack filled with a Scorpia Rising t-shirt, plus 10 temporary tattoos and 10 Scorpia Rising postcards for you and your mates. For your chance to win this, all you have to do is email alexriderinsider@gmail.com and tell us what you would do with your extra tattoos and postcards and why…

Closing date is Friday 30th March (Terms and Conditions of entry)

The end starts here…
http://amzn.to/scorpia

More information here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/chris-evans/500-words/

Gadget Academy Competition

To celebrate 10 years of Alex Rider we’ve teamed up with the Young Times to set you a very special challenge.

Your help is needed to create a new gadget for Alex Rider’s 9th and last mission, Scorpia Rising. Alex Rider’s gadgets, supplied by MI6 operative Smithers, are one of the best-loved elements of Anthony Horowitz’s books and have helped him out of all sorts of scrapes. Now Walker Books and Young Times are offering readers the once-in-a-lifetime chance to design a gadget for Alex!

The winning gadget will feature in Anthony Horowitz’s 9th Alex Rider novel, out Spring 2011, and will be made into an illustration and featured in the Young Times. The winner will also receive a copy of the book and a print of their gadget design. There will be runners up prizes too of an e-reader loaded with the first three Alex Rider books and free Stormbreaker ebooks.

To find out more about the competition visit The Times website or go straight to the Alex Rider Gadget Academy www.gadgetacademy.co.uk to submit your entry. Grab your copy of The Times today and you can also read an exclusive interview with Anthony Horowitz.

Good luck with your mission.

Spy update * Top secret * Spy update * Top secret * Spy update

10 explosive years of Alex Rider?To celebrate ten explosive years of teen superspy Alex Rider, all eight missions have a cool new-look and feature bonus content from Anthony Horowitz, packed with insider secrets! Check them out at www.alexrider.com – the first seven missions are available to buy now, with Crocodile Tears coming in June 2010.

We’ve teamed up with Qantas Holidays to offer a family of four a taste of the action! For your chance to win a 2-week adventure holiday of a lifetime to South Australia and Tasmania, visit www.alexrider.com/australia.  

And, if you love the Alex Rider missions then spread the word! Recruit a new agent to the world of Alex Rider and win a PSP and games. For your Operation Stormbreaker briefing visit www.alexrider.com/newrecruits.

Cool downloads ?Customise your social network and online pages with the Alex Rider 10th anniversary fan pack, crammed with banners, Bebo skins, screensavers and MSN buddy icons featuring the new-look designs. Download them here www.alexrider.com
All the missions on the move ?Get involved in the action on the move – all the missions are now available in eBook and audio format for you to read on your own gadgets.

Tickets still available for Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

Anthony Horowitz will be in conversation with Paul Blezard about his writing for television and the Alex Rider series. Anthony will reveal why he is proudest of his Power of Five series of novels, and why he names his villains after his schoolteachers…

Thursday 25 March 2010,
7pm ?
Sheldonian Theatre,
Broad St,
Oxford?
Ticket sales: Tel 01497 822 629 ?

Online: http://www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com/index2.php

This document is for your eyes only. Destroy all evidence after reading.

The first correct answer came from Sophie in Essex, UK. Congratulations Sophie, your prize is on it’s way!

Anthony was in Egypt on a research trip for the next Power of Five book. Keep watching this space for a new blog from Anthony coming very soon!

Anthony Horowitz, Egypt, 2009

All the best,

Anthony

Where is Anthony?

NOTE: Please be very specific with your answer. You can enter the competition by adding your answer in a comment reply to this post. Remember, all comments are not automatically published, we do moderate them first. Please ensure that you use a valid email address so that we can contact you for your address details should you win the prize. If we cannot contact you by email the prize will go to the next correct entry.

THE COMPETITON IS NOW CLOSED. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE WINNER HERE SHORTLY. THANK YOU.

Crime Traveller by Anthony Horowitz on DVD

Crime Traveller

Win a copy of Crime Traveller!

The nice people at Revelation Films have given us three copies of the Crime Traveller DVD box set to give away. Written by Anthony Horowitz and broadcast on BBC television in 1997, Crime Traveller is a sci-fi crime series that is “sure to entertain” .

To win a copy of Crime Traveller just tell us who directed the series and email your answer making sure to put Crime Traveller as the message subject with your full name and postal address to [COMPETITION CLOSED]

Closing date for entries is Friday August 15 at 14.00 GMT. Only one entry per address is allowed. Competition is open to all countries. The DVD is Region Free and will play on any DVD player worldwide. Three correct entries will be selected at random and the prize will be sent by post.

More about Crime Traveller

Meet the most unconventional investigative team of all time, in the BBC mystery adventure series, Crime Traveller.

Written by award-winning author Anthony Horowitz, creator of the brilliant Alex Rider adventures, Foyle’s War, Rosemary and Thyme and Midsomer Murders, Crime Traveller stars Michael French (Eastenders, Holby City) and Red Dwarf’s Chloe Annett (Casualty, Doctors) as sleuths Jeff Slade and Holly Turner.

Detective duos come and go, working on intuition, clues and good luck, but Slade and his beautiful colleague Holly are armed with something very special in the ongoing fight against crime – their very own time machine. Invented by Holly’s father, Professor Frederick Turner, the time machine may be a bizarre mixture of D.I.Y. technology, but it works, just, sending the charming, maverick detective Slade on a dangerous rollercoaster ride through both the present and the past. Intriguing complex puzzles are solved with the aid of their unreliable collection of nuts and bolts and flashing lights, but they must always obey the rules of quantum physics, or risk being lost forever…

Aided by a superb cast that includes Waking The Dead’s Sue Johnston, and directed by Brian Farnham (Rosemary and Thyme, Poirot, Heartbeat, Bergerac) Crime Traveller is a stylish, fast-paced drama that was shown on prime time BBC television during the late 1990’s, gathering a strong and loyal cult following hooked on the mysteries of time travel and crime fighting, and paving the way for dramas such as the BBC’s acclaimed series, Life On Mars.

This DVD Box Set includes an exclusive interview with writer and creator Anthony Horowitz, the man behind the newest big screen hero; Alex Rider.

DVD Special Features

Cast and Crew Biographies, Episode Synopsis, Exclusive Anthony Horowitz Interview and Original Production Trailer.

Click below to view an excerpt of Anthony’s interview from the extras of Crime Traveller:

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