Atheist Bus Campaign blogger edits book

nozzferrahhtoo · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am **Posts:** 1140

Just got he following email from Ariane Sherine

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Thank you so much for generously supporting the Atheist Bus Campaign. I’m now writing to let you know about Phase 2 – the Atheist Book Campaign!

This is a brand new book I’ve edited called “The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas”, featuring writing from 42 brilliant atheists including Richard Dawkins (with his first ever piece of fiction), Derren Brown (on how we can all be kinder), Ben Goldacre (on the power of ideas), Charlie Brooker (on God’s sense of humour), as well as David Baddiel, Josie Long, AC Grayling, Julian Baggini, Richard Herring, Simon Singh, Brian Cox and many, many more. All royalties from the book are going to the UK HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust, providing testing, medical and legal advice and emotional support to people living with HIV – and we really need your help to make this book a success!

The book launched today and will receive its first chart position this Sunday, based on pre-orders. It would be truly brilliant if we could reach the Top 10 bestsellers, giving atheism a mainstream presence in bookshops in the UK, and raising as much for THT as we did for the Atheist Bus Campaign. However, we need to sell 5,000 copies over today and Saturday to do this – and we’d be very grateful if you could help us.

Please order The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas for just £8.44 with free delivery here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007322615

Thank you again – your support means a lot!

Dev · **Posted:** Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:56 am

Has anyone read any reviews, is it any good?

nozzferrahhtoo · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am **Posts:** 1140

Ordered and shipping this morning it seems, I when I get it and read it will let you know.

Ciaran · **Joined:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:10 pm **Posts:** 217

There's some stuff on it on RDF, but I can't find the reviews now. Dawkins own contribution is here http://richarddawkins.net/article,4371, ... rd-Dawkins

jamesrandi · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:46 am

she was on the tom dunne show this morning on newstalk.

came across well. tom was surprised that she was so much fun and good humoured.

I suppose since us heathens are all such a bunch of miserable bastards. Funny that one point she made is that most comedians are atheists.

ah well !

nozzferrahhtoo · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am **Posts:** 1140

Finally arrived, but since it arrived after about 10 other books I ordered at the same time it is now a little way down the list of books I may read first.

Reading the contents page alone was funny enough to give me a laugh worth the cover price. Theres a whole "How to" section in it and one of the articles has a title promising to tell you how to decorate your house so well for Christmas that it can be seen from space. I can see me reading that one first.

Whole book is done in sections. Short stories first, then a how to section, then a science section, then a philosophy section, then an art section and so on. Each section has contributions from various authors including Brown, Baddiel, Dawkins, Grayling and so on.

There also appears to be one essay on the making of the bus project in one of the sections.

Looks good from what little I have described so far.

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