I shouldn’t mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd Tamara Drewe is a brilliant graphic novel inspired by Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd by Posy Simmonds the author of the widely acclaimed Gemma Bovery Tamara Drewe has [...]
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I was walking through the warehouse this morning and I noticed a copy of Fungus the Bogeyman on a shelf ready to be packed and shipped off. Two minutes before if you’d asked me about Fungus the Bogeyman I would have said – never heard of it but having seen the gruesome green cover again, [...]
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Tim and Sandra Bowden have collaborated on a graphic novel called I Just Want to Be Me! which is designed to help build resilience in young people.
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I’ve had this three volume set on my desk on loan for about a week, and it has proved a marvellous distraction from just about everything. It is a must for collectors, and makes a very fine gift for the right person. My advice is to get in a get it now, before it disappears again.
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It is always fascinating to see what people are attracted to with Booktopia Buzz. The March Buzz went out yesterday afternoon, and although people tend to read it at their leisure over time, I always like to have a peak at the click-throughs to see what is generating interest, and what is being ordered.
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Four of Booktopia’s favourites have picked up Aurealis awards which just proves that even the most fantasy-shy of readers can be seduced by the genre if it is presented to them in the right way.
Filed under: Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Literary Prizes, Literature, Young Adult | Tagged: Andrew McGahan, Aurealis Awards, Kim Gamble, Leviathan, Nathan Jurevicius, Pamela Freeman, Scarygirl, Scott Westerfeld, Victor's Challenge, Wonders of a Godless World | Leave a Comment »
If you follow this blog you will already know how much I love Stitches: A Memoir by David Small. I was most interested to see this week that the US Publishers Weekly magazine has chosen it as one of the 10 books that really stands out from everything else published this year.
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THE BOOKTOPIA BOOK GURU’S GIFT GUIDE FOR THOSE IN A HURRY Or… How to shop for everyone you know in next to no time! Think of the Booktopia Book Guru as your Evil Genius Twin and let him do the choosing for you – all you need to do is click on the books you [...]
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