I meant to draw the winners for my September competition yesterday, but as I explained in a brief post, I had to go for an angiogram and was away longer than anticipated. (Results, by the way, were mixed -- my arteries are partially blocked, which is obviously bad news, but I should be able to treat them with a good diet and some medicine, so I'm hopefully not looking at any major surgery in the forseeable future -- phew!!!)

Anyway, I'm back at my desk now, and ran the figures through a random number generator earlier today, and the four lucky Shansters, who each win an incredibly rare special edition copy of Archibald Lox and the Legion of the Lost, in the order drawn, are...

ADAM NELSON, the USA.

SIMONE PETERS, the Netherlands.

TABISH VIRANI, the USA.

SAKSHI TANDON, (the!!) England.

Congratulations to the winners -- I'll try to post your books to you before the end of this week, or shortly after the weekend. Better luck next time to everyone else -- I plan to run another competition in the not too distant future, so watch out!!!