Deck the halls: Booktopia Buzz for December is up!

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

What a cracker of an edition I have for you for December. How is this for a line-up? Gifts, give-aways and goodies to win include an amazing high quality Ken Duncan signed and numbered print valued at nearly $2,000 to be won by a purchaser of Australia: Our Island Paradise

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Booktopia’s great Facebook Christmas giveaway

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

Five weeks, five prizes to be won, each prize being the winner’s choice of books with an RRP of $100. Want to be in the running?

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My top books for 2011 by Toni Whitmont

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

What I do get to do however, is to sample a LOT of books, and I get to fall in love with a few. And the few that take me to a different place, more than make up for the rest of the 450 on that list that made me want to go out and re-plant the trees. So here they are, my top picks for 2011, for those of you for whom Morrissey and Reilly just don’t cut it.

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NOW AVAILABLE: MasterChef Australia: The Cookbook – Volume 3

Posted on November 23, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Buy MasterChef Australia The Cookbook Series 3 from Booktopia and if you act quickly you could receive a special MasterChef timer. QUICK! STOCK OF THE SPECIAL BONUS GIFT TIMER IS RUNNING OUT. This will be the years biggest selling book so get in quickly and secure this cool memento of MasterChef 2011. MasterChef Australia: The [...]

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H. J. (Holly) Harper : Five Fiction Favourites for 2011

Posted on November 22, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

H. J. (Holly) Harper author of the Star League series reveals… The 5 best novels I read this year are… The Fear By Charlie Higson Holly Harper: The third in Charlie Higson’s The Enemy series, this is the zombie apocalypse at its best. A huge cast of characters means you never know who’s safe and [...]

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The Freudian Slip by Marion von Alderstein

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

At the end of the day, once you finish The Freudian Slip you’ll most likely be asking yourself the same question that has been niggling at me since I flipped the last page. Where is my time machine?

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A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters compiled by Kate Bussmann

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Booktopia

The first of its kind, A Twitter Year distills a year of conversation, argument, revelation and revolution into a ‘review of the year’ as written by the Twitter community. Where can you find first-hand accounts of the Arab Spring, Japan’s nuclear disaster or the Norwegian atrocities? Thousands flouting celebrity superinjunctions? X-rated snaps of politicians? A [...]

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Indira Naidoo, author of The Edible Balcony : How to Grow Fresh Food in a Small Space Plus 60 Inspiring Recipes, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on November 21, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Indira Naidoo author of The Edible Balcony : How to Grow Fresh Food in a Small Space Plus 60 Inspiring Recipes 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 [...]

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Christina Stead is back: The Man Who Loved Children, Letty Fox: Her Luck and now, For Love Alone

Posted on November 18, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Thank goodness Miegunyah – an imprint of Melbourne University Press – who have the very cool slogan, Books With Spine – have begun republishing the works of Christina Stead. We need to be reminded that Australia used to produce artists of genius. And it might just encourage our present crop of writers to either give [...]

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Joy McKean, author of I’ve Been There (and Back Again), answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on November 18, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Joy McKean author of I’ve Been There (and Back Again): Slim Dusty and Joy McKean’s Lifetime of Travel, Stories and Songs 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 Singleton in [...]

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