13 rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

Like Flaubert’s Madame Bovary more than a century earlier, and Alex Miller’s very fine LoveSong of last year, Shapiro writes with enormous insight about the confusion between a woman’s desire for a child and her desire for a man.

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Deborah Rodriguez answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

I consider myself a storyteller first and a writer second. I am a hairdresser at heart, and born with the gift of gab and story telling.

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When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

Winman reels you in to her world and makes you work for resolution. What she does not do is manipulate you or lay it all out on a plate.

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The 50 Must Read Australian Novels (20 to 11) (The Popular Vote 2010)

Posted on December 29, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

A quick glance at the full list of your (remember, you voted for it) 50 Must Read Australian Novels will reveal which publisher is leading the way when it comes to keeping affordable editions of the Australian Classics in print. The Orange Revolution. This list shows that not only are these wonderful books remembered, but they are [...]

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Nature v Nurture – Louann Brizendine’s take on it all

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

Brizendine’s genius is in taking some pretty complex scientific ideas about how sex differences in our brain structures are hardwired into men and women and presenting them to a non-scientific readership in a way that assumes intelligence and judgement

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The 50 Must Read Australian Novels (30 to 21) (The Popular Vote 2010)

Posted on December 24, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

We are counting down The 50 Must Read Australian Novels as voted by our good and learned friends on twitter and facebook – today we move from 30 to 21. The list creation process was fairly simple – I asked for nominations and hundreds of titles were suggested. I then made a list and asked [...]

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Jean Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear and the upcoming The Land of Painted Caves, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

I never dreamed that the book I wrote for myself would find more than 45 million readers in more that 35 countries. How could I wish for a more ambitious goal…Jean Auel of The Land of Painted Caves speaks to Booktopia

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Mike Lancaster, author of 0.4 – It’s a Brave New World, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on December 20, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Mike Lancaster author of 0.4 – It’s a Brave New World Ten Terrifying Questions ————- 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in the UK. I was raised in small [...]

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The 50 Must Read Australian Novels (40 to 31) (The Popular Vote 2010)

Posted on December 18, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

If we mometarily ignore the genius of Hal Porter (37) and the Nobel Prize winning Patrick White (32), the next ten titles on our list could be said to represent the best of modern writing in Australia. Who am I trying to kid? I can’t ignore Hal Porter or Patrick White. The next ten, therefore, [...]

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The 50 Must Read Australian Novels (50 to 41) (The Popular Vote 2010)

Posted on December 13, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

A while ago now, whilst playing… ahem… doing important and vital Booktopia business on twitter and facebook, I decided to ask Booktopia’s followers and friends what they thought were the ‘must read’ Australian novels. Many disparage twitter and facebook by suggesting that it is both frivolous and time wasting (I being of their number some few [...]

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