Let me add a few more books to your “I Must One Day Get Around To Reading Those Books Everyone Keeps Telling Me I Must One Day Get Around To Reading’ list. I just can’t help myself. I love to encourage people to read the classics. And the Vintage Classics range is so beautiful and [...]
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What you post on a blog or tweet to your followers can get you arrested or cost you a lot of money in legal battles. This practical guide shows you how to stay out of trouble when you write online. Every time you blog or tweet you may be subject to the laws of more [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Parker Bilal aka Jamal Mahjoub author of The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery 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 London and raised in Khartoum, Sudan. Later I attended college [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Zoë Foster author of The Younger Man, Amazing Face, Textbook Romance, Playing the Field and Air Kisses 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 raised in Bundanoon, which, unlike Wagga [...]
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In her fourth novel, Various Pets Alive & Dead, Marina Lewycka employs her customary brand of keen wit and farcical comedy to explore the ever-present, ever widening gap that separates one generation from the next. Switching scenes between Doncaster and London, this is a refreshingly original and absurdly funny commentary on modern values told with [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks David Gillespie author of Big Fat Lies: How the Diet Industry is Making you Sick, Fat and Poor , Sweet Poison and The Sweet Poison Quit Plan Ten Terrifying Questions ————————– 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Kay Schubach author of Perfect Stranger Ten Terrifying Questions ————————– 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? · Born in Melbourne, Australia. Local high school then Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Wendy James author of The Mistake, Why She Loves Him, Where Have You Been? 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 and spent the first few years [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Cathy Kelly bestselling author of The House on Willow Street, Homecoming, Once in a Lifetime, Lessons in Heartbreak and many more… Six Sharp Questions ———————————– 1. Congratulations, you have a new book. What is it about and what does it mean to you? The House on Willow Street is about [...]
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The Australian Moment : How We Were Made for These Times by George Megalogenis
There’s no better place to be during economic turbulence than Australia. Brilliant in a bust, we’ve learnt to use our brains in a boom. Although the Great Recession continues to rumble around the globe, we successfully negotiated the Asian financial crisis, the dotcom tech wreck and the GFC. Despite a lingering inability to acknowledge our [...]
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