Indie Book of the Month 1: The Atheists’ Guide to Christmas

This month we are featuring not one but two special books as Independent Books of the Month, both of which are published by our innovative imprint The Friday Project-  which specialises in finding book projects that started out life in some way on the web.

The first book is The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas.

The Atheist’s Guide does pretty much what it says on the tin, with 42 contributions from well known writers, tv personalities and social commentators such as Richard Dawkins, Charlie Brooker, Derren Brown and AC Grayling on what Christmas means to those without faith. Having been brought up in a household of atheists vegetarians myself, I can only guess the answer has something to do with secular nut roast.

Although the book is light hearted in tone, and includes some very funny anecdotes and rants, it has a serious core. The book is edited by Ariane Sherine, the Guardian journalist who launched the Atheist Bus Campaign and ended up raising over GBP150,000, enough to place the advert ‘There’s probably no God’, in part as backlash to ‘unsettling’ Christian bus ads.

Click here to read the article by Ariane that kicked the whole thing off. The full book advance and all royalties will go to the UK HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust.

To find out more why not watch this video by the Ariane, and don’t forget to tune in over the next week, as I’ll be posting up extracts from the book, including audio bloopers and a funny story by supreme atheist himself, Richard Dawkins.

Get your copy of the guide at a special price only from your local independent bookstore. Or to get the audio version from Itunes, click here.