How can you hide

When the enemy is everywhere?

Ruth Ware is back with another incredible thriller, and we have exclusive advanced proofs available for 50 lucky readers. 

Enter your details below for your chance to receive a proof of Zero Days, out in hardback this July!

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2. By entering your name, address and email address this amounts to a request for a copy of a book proof. Your signing up does not constitute an agreement by us to provide the copy of the book requested.

3. We will let you know in due course if your request was successful and, if applicable, when, and how we will be sending you the copy of the book proof. 

4. The winner will be chosen at random from the valid entries.

5. There are 50 book proofs to give away. 

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10. One entry per person is permitted. We reserve the right to disqualify any entries which are completed by third parties, are illegible, have been altered, reconstructed, forged or tampered with or are incomplete or if the entry is in any way deficient. 

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12. Any entrants that do not meet the criteria to enter the offer shall be disqualified. We also reserve the right to remove any applications if we determine, in our sole discretion, to be in violation of these Terms and Conditions or if the entrant’s conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the offer. We reserve the right to disqualify an entrant, or to refuse or withdraw a book, if an entrant or a winner threatens or abuses one of our employees, or otherwise conducts themselves in a manner that we regard as inappropriate, offensive, unlawful, unsafe or unsociable.

13. To apply, please fill in the form at https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/p/zero-days-proof

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Agree we are not obliged to publish your picture or the content you submit.

16. Make your application between 9 am on 17/03/23 (“Opening Date”) and 11.59 pm on 24/03/23 (“Closing Date”) (United Kingdom time). Entries submitted before the Opening Date or after the Closing Date will be invalid.

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18. Successful applications will be selected under the supervision of an independent observer. Our selection is final, and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into. 

19. The book proof is “Zero Days” by Ruth Ware

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by email; or

in writing.

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23. Where a book is won by a person younger than 18, we reserve the right to award the book to the successful applicant’s parent or guardian on behalf of the successful applicant.

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25. Books will be delivered to an address within the UK unless otherwise stated in the offer’s details. Should an  applicant’s contact details change, it is their responsibility to notify us or the contact person(s) detailed in the offer’s terms.

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Death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or

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Entrants aged under 18 years shall have obtained the consent of a parent or a guardian (and will provide us with the contact details so we may contact them should we wish to verify this).