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Celebrate World Book Day 2025 with a Chance to Win a Magical Katherine Rundell Book Bundle!

Get ready to spark imagination, ignite curiosity and inspire a love of travel and adventure! To celebrate World Book Day 2025, we’re giving 10 lucky winners a fantastic bundle of bestselling books by Katherine Rundell! 🌟

Each bundle includes five enchanting books:

  • Impossible Creatures – The multi award-winning Waterstones Book of the Year 2023 and epic first instalment in an action-packed new series
  • Rooftoppers – A heartwarming adventure across the rooftops of Paris
  • The Wolf Wilder –A thrilling tale of friendship and hope set in the snowy wilds of Russia
  • The Explorer – Discover the exhilarating mysteries of the Amazon jungle
  • The Good Thieves – A daring heist guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat

The Observer calls Katherine “One of our most talented writers for children“—and we couldn’t agree more! Her magical storytelling has captured hearts around the globe. Now it’s your turn to dive into her world with a chance to win an exclusive book bundle.

Get ready to fall in love with her amazing books! ✨📚

How To Enter

Complete the form below to enter the competition

Closing Date

23.59 on 13 April 2025

Terms & Conditions

Win with South Western Railway and Bloomsbury Terms and Conditions.

These terms and conditions are subject to any other terms and conditions provided on this website.

The Competition

  1. The competition promoter is First MTR South Western Trains Limited trading as South Western Railway (“SWR”, “we” or “us”) a company established in the UK with a registered office address at 8th Floor, The Point, 37 North Wharf Road, London W2 1AF. Registered in England and Wales, company number: 07900320.
  2. The title of the competition is ‘Celebrate World Book Day 2025 with a Chance to Win a Magical Katherine Rundell Book Bundle!’
  3. The competition will run from 06/03/25 until 23.59 on 13/04/25  All entries must be submitted before the Closing Date and entries submitted after this time will be automatically disqualified.
  4. SWR reserves the right to hold void, suspend, cancel, or amend the competition at any time.

Competition entry

  1. Entry is free of charge and no payments are required to participate To enter fill in the form and submit an answer to the multiple-choice question provided.
  2. The competition is only open to those who are 18 years or over and who are residents of the UK. Proof of identity and age may be required.
  3. The Company’s employees and their immediate families, the Company’s agents and anyone professionally connected with the prize draw are not eligible to take part.
  4. The Company reserves the right to check the validity of any entry. Entries failing to comply with these rules may not be accepted.
  5. Proof of website submission will not be accepted as proof of entry and no responsibility is accepted for entries that are lost, damaged or delayed for whatever reason, including without limitation due to computer, network and/or user error.
  6. Entrants may enter only once.

The Prize

  1. There are 10 Katherine Rundell book bundle prizes to be won
    Each book bundle will include a paperback copy of the following titles:
    Impossible Creatures
    Rooftoopers
    The Wolf Wilder
    The Explorer
    The Good Thieves
  2. 10 winners will be randomly selected.
  3. Each winner will be contacted via email to confirm their prize and provide a delivery address.
  4. The publisher will send each winner the 5-book bundle prize by post
  5. Please allow 28 days for delivery
  6. One entry per person
  7. The prize can not be exchanged for a cash alternative.

Winner selection

  1. The winner of the prize will be selected at random from eligible entrants.
  2. The winner(s) will be notified within 48 hours of the closing date. The winner will be notified by SWR via the email address entered on the competition form.
  3. Reasonable efforts will be made to contact the winner(s). If the winner(s) cannot be contacted within a week of the closing date or are unable to comply with these terms and conditions, the Company reserves the right to offer the prize to any other eligible entrant.
  4. To request the name and county of the winners, please send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to South Western Railway, 4th Floor, South Bank Central, 30 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9LQ within one month of the Closing Date.

Exclusion of liability

In so far as permitted by law, the Company shall not be responsible for and shall not cover nor insure any entrants and or the winner, and third parties from and against any and all actions, claims, proceedings, losses, liabilities, damages, penalties, fines, judgements, costs, charges and expenses of whatever kind and nature relating to the credit and prizes in any way.

General

  1. If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms and conditions, the Company may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to exclude you from participating in the competition.
  2. The Company is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and Data Protection Act and apart from fulfilment of the prize for the winner will not pass on your details to any third party without your prior consent. Further details can be found in the Company’s Privacy Policy .Bloomsbury Privicy Policy.
  3.  These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales, whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.