Ian Irvine, author of Vengeance: Book One of The Tainted Realm, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Ian Irvine author of Vengeance The Tainted Realm Series : Book 1 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 Bathurst, NSW and lived there until I was 8. [...]

BIG NEWS for fans of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series…

StephenKing.com has announced that The Wind Through the Keyhole, the next instalment of the epic The Dark Tower series is set for release in 2012. Dear Constant Readers, At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out Now), I started thinking—and dreaming—about Mid-World again. The major story of Roland and [...]

Christopher Paolini concludes bestselling The Inheritance Cycle with book four, Inheritance

Thanks, Christopher Paolini, for doing a personal Booktopia endorsement for your upcoming book, Inheritance – that is much appreciated. For those that don’t know his series, if you have or know kids 12 plus who love reading then this series is for them. He wrote the first book Eragon (now a movie) when he was [...]

Snuff: A Discworld Novel : Book 39 by Terry Pratchett

I used to live with a woman who became seriously addicted to the Discworld novels. I used to come home with a new one and she would bound to the door, then circle about my legs until I extracted it from my bag. Once it was in my hands I always felt a little nervous, [...]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (The welcome return of the big, fat literary novel)

Those who think there is no room in the current market for lengthy literary novels will feel pretty silly when Murakami’s new novel 1Q84 breaks all sales records. This book has already sold a million copies in Japan. A million copies, people. Even so, I bet there are some pretty nervous publishing types awaiting the [...]

Coming soon: The Sending: the sixth book in Isobelle Carmody’s The Obernewtyn Chronicles

The much anticipated sixth book in The Obernewtyn Chronicles, The Sending will be available from 31st October 2011 About The Sending: The time has come at last for Elspeth Gordie to leave the Land on her quest to find and stop the computermachine Sentinel from unleashing the deadly Balance of Terror arsenal. But before she [...]

Game of Thrones vs Harry Potter

See the HBO series definitely but I defy you to read the first book, Game of Thrones, and not come back for more.

A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin is available from today…

As you most probably know, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire sequence is a masterpiece of fantasy writing. The HBO series, Game of Thrones , airing in Australia in July, will ensure the whole world comes to recognise this fact, too. What is certain, because of the TV extravaganza more and more [...]

Kylie Chan, author of the Dark Heavens and Journey to Wudang trilogies, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Kylie Chan author of the Dark Heavens: White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Blue Dragon and Journey to Wudang: Earth to Hell, Hell to Heaven, Heaven to Wudang Ten Terrifying Questions ———————- 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? [...]

Steve Hockensmith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Steve Hockensmith author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After 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 Louisville, Kentucky; raised in Evansville, Indiana, and Bridgeport, West [...]

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