Peter Allison, author of How to Walk a Puma, answers Six Sharp Questions

Posted on January 31, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Peter Allison author of Whatever You Do, Don’t Run,  Don’t Look Behind You, But…  and now How to Walk a Puma Six Sharp Questions  ————————– 1.    Congratulations, you’ve a new book – How to Walk a Puma – what is it about and what does this book mean to you? This [...]

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Lose weight quickly and safely – guest blogger, Susie Burrell, shows you how…

Posted on January 30, 2012 by booktopiaguestblogger

Lose Weight Fast. Could there be a better title for a book? Who doesn’t want to lose weight fast? It may take us months if not years of eating too much and not moving our bodies enough to gain weight but once we finally get so sick of it that we want to do something [...]

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M. J. Rose, author of The Book of Lost Fragrances, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on January 30, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks M. J. Rose author of The Book of Lost Fragrances 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 New York City – on the upper east side – and [...]

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Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany: Review by Toni Whitmont

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Toni Whitmont

This is a particularly sensual novel, and in that respect, it fits very well into that bush setting. The reader feels the ooze of the soil under hoof, smells the diesel of the red Fergy in the shed, hears the plop of the milk in the pail. And when it comes to longings of a more human kind, Tiffany’s sparse and unsentimental style is both deft and poetic.

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REVIEW: Miles off Course by Sulari Gentill (Guest Reviewer: Booktopia’s Sarah McDuling)

Posted on January 28, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

There are few things more gratifying than discovering an author whose books seem so perfectly suited to your tastes as a reader that it feels as though they may have been written especially for you. After devouring Sulari Gentill’s Miles Off Course in a whirlwind reading session – a reading session interrupted only by a [...]

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Carrie Tiffany, author of Mateship with Birds, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on January 28, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Carrie Tiffany author of Mateship with Birds and Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living 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 Halifax, England. My family migrated to Western Australia [...]

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Marina Endicott, author of The Little Shadows, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on January 27, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Marina Endicott author of The Little Shadows, Good to a Fault 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 was born in the west of Canada, high in the Rocky Mountains, [...]

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Celebrate Australia Day by Pre-Ordering Some Great New Australian Fiction!

Posted on January 26, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Sweet Old World by Deborah Robertson ‘He goes down the stairs, singing Johnny Cash. It’s a song about a man who’s fallen real low, but he’s not low, he’s forty-three years old today, there’s still time. You never know what is waiting, you just never know. This morning he can hope. And this is the [...]

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Nick Lake, author of In Darkness, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on January 25, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Nick Lake author of In Darkness, The Secret Ministry of Frost 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 was born in the north of England, in a place called [...]

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News from the UK: Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure

Posted on January 25, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Vivid tale of life in pre-revolutionary Paris beats Matthew Hollis’s biography of Edward Thomas to £30,000 prize cheque writes Mark Brown in The Guardian A vividly told story of life in pre-revolutionary Paris on Tuesday won the 2011 Costa book award in what turned out to be a bitterly fought two-way tussle between fact and fiction. [...]

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