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		<title>News from the UK: Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vivid tale of life in pre-revolutionary Paris beats Matthew Hollis&#8217;s biography of Edward Thomas to £30,000 prize cheque writes Mark Brown in The Guardian A vividly told story of life in pre-revolutionary Paris on Tuesday won the 2011 Costa book award in what turned out to be a bitterly fought two-way tussle between fact and fiction. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=21790&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor, our 2012-2013 Australian Children&#8217;s Laureates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much-loved children’s authors Alison Lester and Boori Monty Pryor were announced on December 6th as the first Australian Children’s Laureates at the launch of the initiative in Adelaide. Both are talented and award-winning storytellers who bring a wealth of experience and creativity to the role – Alison as a renowned author and illustrator, and Boori [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=21068&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, answers Ten Terrifying Questions</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/12/09/jennifer-egan-author-of-a-visit-from-the-goon-squad-winner-of-the-pulitzer-prize-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Booktopia Book Guru asks Jennifer Egan author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Los Angeles Times Book Award and National Book Circle Critics Award Ten Terrifying Questions &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself &#8211; where were you born? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=20800&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2011 Man Booker Prize goes to The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word has just come in from the UK&#8230; The contenders for the Man Booker Prize this year have already divided the literary world. Some have said that the shortlisted books were too popular for the world&#8217;s most famous literary award. But readers have reacted well and sales of all the books have been strong. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=19641&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man Booker Prize 2011 &#8211; There can be only one&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any moment now word will come through from the UK&#8230; The winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2011 is&#8230; I have read only one of the contenders&#8230; shame on me &#8230; (I blame Murakami &#8211; 1Q84 is enormous and has monopolised all of my reading time) but that one contender was one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=19613&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the part of the story where I reveal that I have been reading the poetry of Tomas Tranströmer for years and entirely concur with The Swedish Academy&#8217;s reasoning behind awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2011 &#62;&#62; “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”. Obviously. Ummmm&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=19319&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Man Booker Prize Shortlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two first time novelists make shortlist of six 6 September 2011 Julian Barnes, Carol Birch, Patrick deWitt, Esi Edugyan, Stephen Kelman and A.D. Miller are today, Tuesday 6 September, announced as the six shortlisted authors for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The judges’ selection includes two first time novelists &#8211; Stephen Kelman and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=18517&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alison Pick, author of Far To Go, answers Ten Terrifying Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Booktopia Book Guru asks Alison Pick author of Far To Go, which has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, Ten Terrifying Questions  &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; 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 Toronto, but my parents moved to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=17918&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take a closer look at the longlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize longlist is an interesting and surprising selection of established and emerging writers. I have to admit that at first the 2011 Man Booker Prize longlist left me a little cold. I recognised a few of the names on the list but many of them were completely unfamiliar. Then I cast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=17005&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winners of the 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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