Penguin Books has released 26 new Popular Penguins, taking the total number of books in this much-loved series to 200. I am slowly collecting them all. I’ve read about forty but I am sure there are plenty of people who have read more than me. (How many have you read?) Today I am personally recommending [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Andy Griffiths author of 13 Storey Treehouse, The Bad Book, The Day My Bum Went Psycho and many many more Six Sharp Questions ————————- 1. Congratulations, you have a new book. What is it about and what does it mean to you? 13 Storey Treehouse is about a writer called [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Emily Rodda author of The Deltora Quest series and now The Golden Door and more 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 grew up with my two younger brothers on Sydney’s [...]
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I have just read English journalist, author, and broadcaster, Grace Dent’s amusing, insightful and ultimately helpful book on the Twitter phenomenon, entitled How to Leave Twitter. In the middle of the book, under the heading Justifying your Twitter addiction, is the eighth justification: Women on Twitter: A cyber-room of one’s own. The first sentence of [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks John Long author of Hung Like an Argentine Duck: A Journey Back in Time to the Origins of Sexual Intimacy 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’m a Melbourne boy, raised [...]
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Today marks the launch of Get Reading 2011, an Australia-wide program designed to promote books and writing. As part of the campaign anybody who buys a book in a participating bookshop will receive a free book, Ten Short Stories You Must Read in 2011, featuring contributions from John Birmingham, Charlotte Wood, Caroline Overington, Cate Kennedy, [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Carol Altmann author of Four Seasons with a Grumpy Goat 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 grew up on acreage right in the heart of Warrnambool, Victoria, and within walking [...]
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At Booktopia, we have made Get Reading even better. We are giving away the entire collection of 50 books to one lucky person who buys from the Get Reading 50 between now and the end of September. How good is that? 50 books you get to keep
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks SYLVIA JOHNSON author of Watch Out For Me 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 Sydney, raised in Mosman and the Blue Mountains, schooled by some truly terrifying [...]
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Women of Letters: Reviving the Lost Art of Correspondence. Edited by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire
Available 31 October 2011 In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there’s something of special value about a carefully composed letter. In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia’s finest dames of stage, screen [...]
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