Eoin Colfer Visits Australia and Announces the Imminent Arrival of The Last Guardian, The Final Book in the Artemis Fowl Series

Posted on May 20, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Last Guardian, The Eighth and Last Book in the ENORMOUSLY Successful and TOTALLY Addictive Artemis Fowl Series will be Available from 10th July 2012. The Last Guardian Artemis Fowl Series : Book 8 IS THIS ARMAGEDDON FOR ARTEMIS FOWL? Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen. If she succeeds, the spirits [...]

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COMING IN AUGUST: A new NOVEL from ZADIE SMITH called NW

Posted on May 17, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Blurb: Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke and Russell. Five identical blocks make up the Caldwell housing estate in North West London. If you grew up in this relic of seventies urban design, the plan was to get out and get on, to something better, somewhere else. Thirty years later, Caldwell kids Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan [...]

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Think – Die Hard in Disneyland! (Out in June – Alpha by Greg Rucka)

Posted on May 17, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Alpha by  Greg Rucka This was sold into me thus: Think – Die Hard in Disneyland! How could I resist? I took the proof copy home and started it that very night. A few nights later I was done. Very well written and well observed, ALPHA starts slowly (methodically) but the tension builds and builds [...]

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SCI-FI NEWS: Kim Stanley Robinson’s new epic – 2312 – will be available in June.

Posted on May 15, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Great sci-fi writers start with what is universal and unchanging – human nature, the laws of physics, Coca Cola – and draw a line from such guide points into the future. I firmly believe that the future will be strange and wonderful, exciting and mind-blowing but also instantly recognisable as human were we to be [...]

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Susan Johnson, author of My Hundred Lovers, Life in Seven Mistakes, The Broken Book and more, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on May 15, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Susan Johnson author of My Hundred Lovers, Life in Seven Mistakes, The Broken Book 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 Brisbane to a Queensland father [...]

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Coming May 23rd 2012, Pre-order Now – The Australian Wedding Book

Posted on May 14, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Australian Wedding Book – Due for release 23rd May 2012, pre-order here Today I defer to our resident expert, soon to married bridezilla, Elizabeth Sharah who has been frantically researching her wedding and has found the perfect companion – THE AUSTRALIAN WEDDING BOOK. Over to you Liz… Kate White and her husband have been [...]

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Hannah Richell Lists Her Five Fiction Favourites

Posted on May 12, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Hannah Richell, author of Secrets of the Tides, reveals her five fiction favourites… Goodnight Mister Tom  by Michelle Magorian I read this book as a young girl. It’s the story of a young boy evacuated from wartime London to the rural home of a grumpy old man. Goodnight Mister Tom is a children’s book but [...]

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Three Authors Offer Advice for Writers: Jodi Picoult, Zoë Foster and Sebastian Terry

Posted on May 12, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

I interview writers every week here on the Booktopia Blog. My Ten Terrifying Questions have been answered by over 250 published authors ranging from mega selling global stars like Jackie Collins and Lee Child to brilliant, relatively unknown debut authors such as Favel Parret and  Rebecca James. In each of these interviews I ask the [...]

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Louise Limerick, author of Lucinda’s Whirlwind, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on May 11, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Louise Limerick author of Lucinda’s Whirlwind and Dying for Cake 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 Brisbane in 1970, the youngest of five children, four girls and one [...]

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Kathy Lette, author of The Boy Who Fell to Earth, Puberty Blues, How to Kill Your Husband and many more, answers Five Facetious Questions

Posted on May 10, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Kathy Lette author of The Boy who Fell to Earth, Puberty Blues, How to Kill Your Husband (and Other Household Handy Hints) and many more… Five Facetious Questions ——————————– 1. Every writer spends at least one afternoon going from bookshop to bookshop making sure his or her latest book is [...]

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