Did you hear…? From the Random House Australia Blog: Vintage Publishing, a division of Random House, has acquired through Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown the ten-year licence for Ian Fleming’s entire James Bond backlist in print and eBook format, along with Fleming’s two non-fiction titles. These will be available in Australia from Random House Australia [...]
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To avoid exposing yourself as one of the five or six hundred people who were not forced to read The Great Gatsby at school when they were too young to understand it, read the book before you watch the film. Then you can join in on the discussion about whether the film did justice to [...]
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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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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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Charlaine Harris has announced that she is ending the Sookie Stackhouse/ Southern Vampire series. Save the date…the final Sookie Stackhouse book, DEAD EVER AFTER, will be on sale May 7, 2013! The Southern Vampire series inspired HBO’s True Blood and with 12 books so far, it is exceedingly popular. Last year, Harris hinted at the [...]
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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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