About four weeks ago in a sell-in, I was told of True Compass, the autobiography that Senator Edward Kennedy worked on for five years, trying to get it finished before his terminal illness finally caught up with him.
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There was an audible gasp in the office a couple of weeks ago when Carl Jung’s The Red Book was brought in for us to have a look at
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The Children’s Books Council of Australia has announced its prize winning books for 2009 and as usual, the list has some interesting choices
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Have a Little Faith is Mitch Albom’s long awaited return to nonfiction. It will be released world-wide on September 29.
Filed under: Non Fiction | Tagged: Five People You Meet in Heaven, Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom, Tuessdays with Morrie | 2 Comments »
I hereby give to you today, the title of the final volume of the Chaos Walking trilogy:
Monsters of Men.
Filed under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult | Tagged: Chaos Walking, Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer, The Knife of Never Letting Go | 34 Comments »
We have been having SUCH a busy time at Booktopia lately. Apart from moving to a much bigger warehouse and generally expanding the business, we have just signed off on a deal with Novel Idea Vending that is going see us set up book vending kiosks in 200 locations around Australia over the next year or so.
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Well, be still my beating heart, Spanish born Canadian Martel has taken up his pen again.
He will publish his his third novel in 2010, his first since Book Prize winning The Life of Pi in 2002.
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The True History of the Hula Hoop is a novel about a performer with a certain expertise with the hula hoop, something about which performance artists Lanigan is especially able to write
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