Kate Cuthbert: Readers, I have raved and raved and raved and raved about Rachel Vincent for years, so if you haven’t yet taken my (highly valuable and always correct) advice, perhaps a little Q&A with the lady herself will sway you? Kate Cuthbert, editor of the Booktopia Romance Buzz, and the Booktopia Book Guru ask [...]
Filed under: Author Interview, Paranormal, Romance | Tagged: Nine Naughty Questions, Rachel Vincent, Soul Screamers series, Unbound Trilogy | Leave a Comment »
At Booktopia, we have made Get Reading even better. We are giving away the entire collection of 50 books to one lucky person who buys from the Get Reading 50 between now and the end of September. How good is that? 50 books you get to keep
Filed under: Australian Author, Australian Rural Fiction, Biography/Memoir, Book retailing trends, Booktopia, Children's Fiction, Children's Books, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Crime/Thriller, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non Fiction, Paranormal, Picture Books, Politics, Romance, Sport, Travel Writing, Young Adult | Tagged: The Hunger Games, Susan Duncan, Leigh Hobbs, Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, The Passage, Mice, That Deadman Dance, Kim Scott, Kate Grenville, I Came to Say Goodbye, Caroline Overington, Get Reading, Geraldine Brooks, When God Was a Rabbit, One Day, David Nicholls, Caleb's Crossing, Past the Shallows, Sarah Thornhill, Niromi de Soyza, The Briny Café, Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad\, Jackie French, Baby Wombat's Week, Rick Riordan, Garth Nixz, Troubletwister, The Tamil Tigress, kasey Chambers, A Little Bird Told Me, Emily Rodda, The Golden Door, Mr Badger, Ros Moriarty, Listening to Country | Leave a Comment »
Kate Cuthbert, Editor, Booktopia Romance Buzz: Victoria Dahl is an author to watch, and one of the most exciting new voices in romance. (Also, I think she’s groovy because she helps feed my insatiable appetite for hot, fun contemporary romance). What’s even better is that she writes both historical and contemporary romances, so it’s really [...]
Filed under: Author Interview, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: Good Girls Don't, It's Always Been You, Nine Naughty Questions, Victoria Dahl | 2 Comments »
It’s hard to think Romantic Suspense without thinking Lori Foster – in fact, it’s hard to think Romance without thinking Lori Foster . She’s sold tens of thousands of copies, hit any number of best-seller lists, and is beloved by long-time and new readers alike. So imagine my delight when she agreed to come and [...]
Filed under: Author Interview, Romance, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: June Romance BUZZ, Kate Cuthbert, Lori Foster, Nine Naughty Questions, Savor the Danger, Ten Terrifying Questions | Leave a Comment »
The Booktopia Book Guru and Kate Cuthbert, Editor of the Booktopia Romance Buzz ask Julia Quinn author of Just Like Heaven, Ten Things I Love About You, What Happens in London and many more… Nine Naughty Questions ————————————– 1. I wonder, is a Romance writer born or made? Please tell us little about your life [...]
Filed under: Author Interview, Historical Romance, Romance, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: Julia Quinn, Just Like Heaven, Nine Naughty Questions, Ten Terrifying Questions, Ten Things I Love About You, What Happens in London | Leave a Comment »
Never have the best books ever written looked so good… Did you know carefully placed Vintage Classics can brighten up any home? (…they also have the power to redecorate your mind.) And now the VINTAGE CLASSICS range have all been repriced to a low $12.95, which means, joy of joy, that from Booktopia, they are [...]
Filed under: Adventure, Children's Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Crime/Thriller, Erotic Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humour, Literary Classic, Literature, Magic Realism, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult | Tagged: Vintage Classics | Leave a Comment »
The Booktopia Award for the Longest Bow includes three sub-categories, namely: The RRT Lobby – given to the book/genre with the most rapid response time from the original stimulus to the introduction of the book to the marketplace, the Biggest Loser Lobby – given to the book/genre which bombed the most spectacularly and and my own personal favourite, The Most Audacious Try-on.
Filed under: Activity Books, Bargains, Biography/Memoir, Children's Fiction, Children's Books, Coffee Table Books, Gift Books, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Literary Prizes, Non Fiction, Publishing, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: Committed, Conversations With Myself, Crash, Daisy Meadows, Diana Princess of Wales, Elizabet Gilbert, Have a Little Faith, Invictus, Ita Buttrose, JG Ballard, Kate Greenaway, Kate Middleton, Kate The Royal Wedding Fairy, Long Walk to Freedom, Mario Testino, Miles Franklin, Mitch Albom, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diaries, Publishing, Rainbow Magic, Royal Affair, Royal Wedding, Shrek, Teletubbies, The Australian Guide to Etiquette, William and Kate : A Royal Love Story, William and Kate: Dress Up Dolly Book, William and Kate: The Love Story | 2 Comments »
An irresistibly glamorous and intriguing novel from the author of the international bestseller FALLEN. Lauren Kate’s first novel, THE BETRAYAL OF NATALIE HARGROVE, features the most ruthlessly ambitious heroine since Lady Macbeth. Natalie is utterly determined to cement her position at the top of the high school social ladder by becoming prom queen. When it [...]
Filed under: Author Interview, Book Trailer, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: Fallen, Lauren Kate, The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, Torment | Leave a Comment »
The Booktopia Book Guru asks Anna Campbell author of My Reckless Surrender, Captive of Sin, Claiming the Courtesan 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? Hey, that’s not so scary! I think I’m tough enough [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Author Interview, Romance, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: Anna Campbell, Captive of Sin, Claiming the Courtesan, My Reckless Surrender, Ten Terrifying Questions | 41 Comments »
Like Flaubert’s Madame Bovary more than a century earlier, and Alex Miller’s very fine LoveSong of last year, Shapiro writes with enormous insight about the confusion between a woman’s desire for a child and her desire for a man.
Filed under: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Magic Realism, Romance | Tagged: 13 rue Therese, Alex Miller, Birds Without Wings, Birdsong, David Ebershoff, David Malouf, Elena Mauli Shapiro, Gustave Flaubert, Louis de Bernieres, Lovesong, Madame Bovary, Sebastian Faulks, The 19th Wife, The Great World | 2 Comments »
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