Join experts from Booktopia at The 2013 Sydney Writer’s Festival

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Looking for things to see at The Sydney Writer’s Festival?

Come along and hear some experts from Booktopia chat about the wonderful world of books…

Caroline Baum

Lost and Found

What: Writers Ailsa Piper (Sinning Across Spain) and Cheryl Strayed (Wild) have both turned to travel in a bid to find redemption and connection. They talk with Caroline Baum about the call of the road and the journeys which led them to become who they are today. Ailsa trekked 1300 kilometres across Spain from Granada to Galicia in a bid to walk off the sins of others, while Cheryl trekked 1770 kilometres along the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada in order to save herself.

When: Thursday, May 23,  10:00 AM - 11:00 AM.

Where: Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, $20/$14.

The 21st Century Author

What: Digital sharing and collaborative consumption are disrupting traditional economic models and reinventing not just what people consume, but how they consume. In this new environment how, can an author monetise their work and how will books transform as they compete for space in the digital world? Social innovator Rachel Botsman, (What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption), who says we are ‘wired to share’, shows how technology will change the role of authors and looks at the potential impact on their ideas. She talks to journalist Caroline Baum.

When: Thursday, May 23,  2:30 PM - 3:30 PM.

Where: Wharf Theatre 2, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, $20/$14.

Claire Messud: The Woman Upstairs

What: The New York Times bestselling author Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is one of the most exhilarating reads of the year – the confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by desire for a world beyond her own. Messud speaks to Caroline Baum about this ‘scorching social anatomy, red-hot psychology, galvanising story’. Claire has been awarded both an Addison Metcalf Award and a Strauss Living Award by the American Academy of Arts.

When: Friday, May 24,  2:30 PM - 3:30 PM.

Where: Pier 2/3 Main Stage, Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, $20/$14.

Rachael Treasure and Rural Romance

What: Author, mother, regenerative agriculturalist and ‘lover of life’, Rachael Treasure, talks to Caroline Baum about her latest novel, The Farmer’s Wife, and the phenomenon of rural romance that she kick-started with her first novel, Jillaroo. Her other bestselling books include The Stockman, based on her experience with working dog education, The Rouseabout, inspired by her wild times at Australia’s Bachelor and Spinster (B&S) Balls and The Cattleman’s Daughter.

When: Saturday, May 25,  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM.

Where: Pier 2/3 The Loft, Pier 2/3, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Free, no bookings.

Kate Atkinson: Life After Life

What: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century, over and over. Kate Atkinson, at her most profound and inventive, speaks to Caroline Baum. ‘Kate Atkinson’s new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining . . . If you wish to be moved and astonished, read it’ (Hilary Mantel).

When: Saturday, May 25,  4:00 PM - 5:00 PM.

Where: Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay, 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, $20/$14.

John Purcell

Books to Live By

What: A great book recommendation is indeed a wonderful thing. Booksellers, with their wealth of knowledge and eyes on the most exciting new books, are often the best people to tell us what to read. Getting the right books to the right people is their special skill.

Three of Sydney’s most in-the-know booksellers and tastemakers, John Purcell, Morgan Smith and Barbara Horgan, share some of their secrets with Walter Mason and recommend their favourite books.

When: Thursday, May 23, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM.

Where: Sydney Dance 2, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, Free, no bookings

Haylee Nash

Forest for the Trees: Writers & Publishing in 2013

What: A one-day seminar looking at the current state of publishing for Australian writers. The seminar brings together writers, publishers, marketers and agents to discuss what is happening in 2013. The conversation includes digital and independent publishing, as well as the challenges the industry is now facing.

Self-published authors share how they manage being a writer, a publisher and a promoter of their own work. The day concludes with a case study looking at the creative approach one publisher is taking to promote a debut author. Hear from the writer, agent and author about their unconventional strategy.

When: Thursday, May 23, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM.

Where: State Library of NSW, Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street Wing, Macquarie Street, Sydney, $45/$35.

For more details on these or any other events go to www.swf.org.au

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Lorraine Elliott, author of Not Quite Nigella, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on May 16, 2013 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

not-quite-nigellaThe Booktopia Book Guru asks

Lorraine Elliott

author of Not Quite Nigella

Ten Terrifying Questions

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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 Darlinghurst, Sydney, and raised in Maroubra and then Kensington. I went to school at Sydney Girls’ High School where I was an average student at best!

2.What did you want to be when you were 12, 18 and 30? And why?

At 12, I wanted to be a beautician because I loved the idea of beautifying people or making them feel better. At 18, I knew that I didn’t want to become a psychologist despite the fact that I was studying it at university (alarm, yes!) and at 30, I thought I wanted to be an Advertising Media Director until I was told that I just really wasn’t ready to be that for another ten years or so.

3.What strongly held belief did you have at 18 that you do not have now?

When I was younger, I saw the world in black and white, good and bad and now I realise that people are really a mix of both but that most people try to be good.xl-lorraine-elliott-not-qui-460x458

4.What were three works of art – book or painting or piece of music, etc – you can now say, had a great effect on you and influenced your own development as a writer?

I didn’t realise it at the time but Nigella Lawson’s Nigella Bites and How To Be a Domestic Goddess were really what I used as a template. Nigella has her own unmistakable voice but Nigella Bites was also a cookbook with fun -the Kitsch chapter for example. And How To Be a Domestic Goddess was devoted to baking, an exploit which I am similarly enamoured of.

5.Considering the innumerable artistic avenues open to you, why did you choose to write a novel?

Quite honestly, I can’t sing or dance and I’m tone deaf! I never thought that I enjoyed writing until I started blogging and I’m in love with words all over again.

not-quite-nigella6.Please tell us about your latest book…

It’s a memoir based on my life before and during the blog. It details how I went from a corporate job to finding something that I truly love. It’s not a cookbook but there are about a dozen recipes slotted in at the end of chapters where appropriate.

Click here to buy Not Quite Nigella from Booktopia,
Australia’s Local Bookstore

7.What do you hope people take away with them after reading your work?

I hope they understand blogging a bit more, are entertained and perhaps inspired!

8.Whom do you most admire in the realm of writing and why?

There are so many great authors that it’s hard to pin point one that I admire. But I do love J.K. Rowling because she has such a wonderful imagination and created a world in which I wanted to dwell.

9.Many artists set themselves very ambitious goals. What are yours?

It may sound disingenuous but I haven’t really set myself up with any goals. I think goals can almost limit you. That doesn’t mean to say that I’m not ambitious, but my ambition is to blog well and choose the right opportunities for myself, but I don’t have any set ambitions.

10.What advice do you give aspiring writers?

Never give up. And it’s never too late to discover that you love writing.

Lorraine, thank you for playing.

Click here to buy Not Quite Nigella from Booktopia,
Australia’s Local Bookstore

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Honey Brown, author of Dark Horse, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on May 13, 2013 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

dark-horseThe Booktopia Book Guru asks

Honey Brown

author of Dark Horse and more…

Ten Terrifying Questions

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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 Traralgon, Victoria. The family travelled around when I was young, then we moved to Tasmania, Campbell Town, into a convict built house near the historic Red Bridge. I finished primary school at Campbell Town, attended secondary there, and moved into Launceston for year 11. Then I shifted back to Victoria for work.

2. What did you want to be when you were 12, 18 and 30? And why?

When I was 12, I wanted to be an actress. Stories played out like movies in my mind, and I assumed this meant I wanted to act in movies. At 18 I was working at a chemist and saving up to travel, not career-minded at all. At 30 I was in a difficult period of my life, recovering from an accident that damaged my spine, so I was only thinking day-to-day and not too far beyond that.

3. What strongly held belief did you have at 18 that you do not have now?

I believed insecurities were flaws. Now I believe they are a part of what makes a person interesting and unique.honey brown

4. What were three works of art – book or painting or piece of music, etc – you can now say, had a great effect on you and influenced your own development as a writer?

The three books that were beside my computer when I wrote my first novel – James Dickey’s Deliverance, Tim Winton’s Dirt Music, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. I would dip into those books all the time, for a reminder of pace, or what good prose looked like, for clarity, for a warm-up, for feel and texture, different things from each book. Each novel I write I always have a couple of books I lean on in this way. But these three helped me create my first published novel, Red Queen, so their influence is especially profound.

5. Considering the innumerable artistic avenues open to you, why did you choose to write a novel?

I’m not sure it’s something I got to choose. I didn’t study creative writing, I didn’t dream of being an author, all I know is I have stories turning in my mind, and the most enjoyable and natural way for me to get them out is to write. If I didn’t write, they wouldn’t develop fully. On the page is where they come to life.

dark-horse6. Please tell us about your latest novel…

Dark Horse is about a woman and her horse trapped on a mountain with a dangerous stranger. I was thinking about the idea of playing along with a dangerous person in order to lessen a threat. When fleeing or fighting isn’t an option, when you have to depend on the very person you fear, how far would you go to keep the peace? Intimacy, distrust, sex and survival, it’s about all those things. There’s also a twist. It’s the first twist I’ve ever written.

From the publisher:
It’s Christmas morning on the edge of the rugged Mortimer Ranges. Sarah Barnard saddles Tansy, her black mare. She is heading for the bush, escaping the reality of her broken marriage and her bankrupted trail-riding business.

Sarah seeks solace in the ranges. When a flash flood traps her on Devil Mountain, she heads to higher ground, taking shelter in Hangman’s Hut.

She settles in to wait out Christmas.

A man, a lone bushwalker, arrives. Heath is charming, capable, handsome. But his story doesn’t ring true. Why is he deep in the wilderness without any gear? Where is his vehicle? What’s driving his resistance towards rescue? The closer they become the more her suspicions grow.

But to get off Devil Mountain alive, Sarah must engage in this secretive stranger’s dangerous game of intimacy.

Click here to buy Dark Horse from Booktopia,
Australia’s Local Bookstore

7. What do you hope people take away with them after reading your work?

Vivid images. More than anything I want them to see the scenes and the characters, for my words create pictures in their mind. I hope my stories feel real to them.after the darkness

8. Whom do you most admire in the realm of writing and why?

Joyce Carol Oats. It might have more to do with envy. Stories pour from her, her themes are bold, she’s an academic as well as creative, nothing seems too hard for her, she can write on such a grand scale, her intelligence leaps from the page.

9. Many artists set themselves very ambitious goals. What are yours?

For me, being an artist has a lot to do with being a realist. Fiction is more about being honest than what readers might imagine. Feelings, in particular, have to be true, you have to strip away the surface layer and get to the heart of things. It’s a revealing process, and the reason why showing your writing can be confronting. I’d love to have a worldwide bestseller, but it’s not a goal. My goal is to keep enjoying the writing.

10. What advice do you give aspiring writers?

Respect your reader. Write a story that will entertain them.

Honey Brown, thank you for playing.

Click here to buy Dark Horse from Booktopia,
Australia’s Local Bookstore

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Australia’s Favourite Novelist – You decide

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

In 2010 we asked Australia what their absolute must-read Australian is. After thousands of votes were cast we found your answer, the results of which can be found here.

Booktopia is Australia’s Local Bookstore, locally owned and operated, full of people who love books and more importantly, Australian books.

January at Booktopia is the month of Australian Stories. All this month we’ll be running fresh content from Australian writers and by Australia Day we’ll have something very, very special for all lovers of Australian writing, a first of its kind. But more on that in the coming days.

To celebrate Australian Stories, we need your help to discover Australia’s Favourite Novelist, living or dead, all through the incredible history of Australian writing.

Please help us by lodging your favourite authors over the next week. At the end of the week we’ll take all your suggestions and put them into heats where you can champion your favourite. The process is all underneath to let you know how this huge event is taking place.

Once we have a top 50, we’ll put it to a worldwide vote right here, on our blog, where thousands come to visit every day. If you love Australian writers, this is your chance to speak up and be heard!

Then, on the week leading up to Australia Day, we’ll count down your votes from 50 to 1, with Australia’s favourite novelist to be announced on Friday the 25th of January, just in time for Australia Day celebrations!

HOW IT WORKS

WEEK ONE – JAN 1-6 – Let us know your nominations for your favourite Australian novelists. As many as you like, anyone who you think deserves recognition. If you are lucky enough to have a friend who is a writer who you believe in, champion them! You can do this through….

-          Email us at faveoznovelist@booktopia.com.au

-          Tweet us on @booktopia

-          Let us know on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Booktopia/91043653859

WEEK TWO – JAN 7-13 – The Heats! We’ll take all your nominations and split them up into groups you can vote on. Every day from Monday to Friday a new list will appear with new names. This will decide who makes the final cut! With so many names, just a few votes could take your favourite from yesterday’s news to immortality.

WEEK THREE – JAN 14-20 – Only the best of the best will make it through to the final poll. We’ll have this poll up all week. This will be the final chance to cheer for your favourite Australian Novelist.

WEEK FOUR – A WEEK OF AUSTRALIAN STORY-TELLERS – Voting will close on Monday the 21st of January at 9am. From Monday we’ll count up the top 50 and announce them in order, unveiling 10 every day, and then…..

WHO WE WERE, WHO WE ARE, WHO WE WANT TO BE.
Australia’s 10 favourite novelists will be announced on Friday the 25th of January. We’ll be profiling all of the top 10 authors and the books that have made them your favourites. We’ll also be launching our new proudly Australian initiative, the first in Australian Bookselling history. But that’s all we can tell you!

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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie announced as the new selection for Oprah’s Book Club

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Andrew Cattanach

The upcoming debut novel from author Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, has been given a huge boost with the announcement this week that it has been selected as the new read for Oprah’s Book Club.

The talk-show juggernaut has relaunched her book club, called Oprah’s Book Club 2.0,  after some controversies with 1.0. In 2006 she laid a smackdown on the fibbing James Frey for his ‘memoir’ A Million Little Pieces. Jonathan Franzen also made waves after going all houghty-toughty about his book The Corrections being featured on the same show that gives away frozen chickens from Walmart.

Click here for the full list of Oprah Book Club selectionsWith most authors and publishing houses clambering for the publicity a selection on the book club brings, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie now has gone from an exciting upcoming novel to one of the most anticipated books since J.K. Rowling entered her post-Potter phase with a cocktail of sex drugs and alcohol.

Past selections for Oprah’s Book Club include The Pillars of the Earth, Freedom, The Road and The Reader, so if we can assume something from the company kept, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie looks like it will be an absolute cracker.


Click here to pre-order The Twelve Tribes of Hattie from Booktopia,
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From the publisher
For fans of Toni Morrison, an unforgettably powerful novel about a mother’s courage, sacrifice and love, set against the volatile history of twentieth century America.

When Hattie clambered from a train, her skirt still hemmed with Georgia mud and the dream of Philadelphia sitting round as a marble in her mouth, she couldn’t guess that two years later, aged sixteen, she’d be fighting to keep her baby twins alive.

Saddled with a husband who will bring her nothing but disappointment, she raises nine children with grit and monumental courage, but no tenderness. She knows the world will not be kind to them and wants to prepare them as best she can. As her sons and daughters buck against their fates, she feels every one of their triumphs and heartbreaks, for they are all bound together.

A searing portrait of twentieth century America told through the story of an unforgettable family, a transfixing drama of bitterness and love and a ferocious vision of humanity at its rawest; The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is a debut of extraordinary distinction.

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Five Books With Thrills To Give You The Chills – Happy Halloween From Booktopia

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Andrew Cattanach

Do you like scary stories? I’ll try my hand at one.

Brynne Edelsten has her own television show.

Not scary enough? Well you’re a tough nut to crack. Here’s five spine-chilling titles sure to make the hairs on your goosebumps rise.

It

by Stephen King

It began for the Losers on a day in June of 1958, the day school let out for the summer. That was the day Henry Bowers carved the first letter of his name on Ben Hanscom’s belly and chased him into the Barrens, the day Henry and his Neanderthal friends beat up on Stuttering Bill Denbrough and Eddie Kaspbrak, the day Stuttering Bill had to save Eddie from his worst asthma attack ever by riding his bike to beat the devil. It ended in August, with seven desperate children in search of a creature of unspeakable evil in the drains beneath Derry. In search of It. And somehow it ended.

Or so they thought. Then.

On a spring night in 1985 Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six calls. Stan Uris, accountant. Richie “Records” Tozier, L.A. disc jockey. Ben Hanscom, renowned architect. Beverly Rogan, dress designer. Eddie Kaspbrak, owner of a successful New York limousine company. And Bill Denbrough, bestselling writer of horror novels. Bill Denbrough who now only stutters in his dreams.

These six men and one woman have forgotten their childhoods, have forgotten the time when they were Losers . . . but an unremembered promise draws them back, the present begins to rhyme dreadfully with the past, and when the Losers reunite, the wheels of fate lock together and roll them toward the ultimate terror.

In the biggest and most ambitious book of his career, Stephen King gives us not only his most towering epic of horror but a surprising reillumination of the corridor where we pass from the bright mysteries of childhood to those of maturity.

Click here to buy your copy from Booktopia, Australia’s No.1 Online Book Shop

Rosemary’s Baby

by Ira Levin

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary’s reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband takes a special shine to them. Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant, and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets’ circle is not what it seems…

Click here to buy your copy from Booktopia, Australia’s No.1 Online Book Shop

The Passage

by Justin Cronin

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.

With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

Click here to order your copy from Booktopia, Australia’s No.1 Online Book Shop

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

‘We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.’

Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through notes and diary entries, Harker keeps track of the horrors and terrors that beset him at the castle, telling his fiancé Mina of the Count’s supernatural powers and his own imprisonment. Although Harker eventually manages to escape and reunite with Mina, his experiences have led to a mental breakdown of sorts.

Meanwhile in England, Mina’s friend Lucy has been bitten and begins to turn into a vampire. With the help of Professor Van Helsing, a previous suitor of Lucy’s, Seward, and Lucy’s fiancé Holmwood attempt to thwart Count Dracula and his attempts on Lucy and consequently Mina’s life.

Arguably the most enduring Gothic novel of the 19th Century, Bram Stoker’s DRACULA is as chilling today in its depiction of the vampire world and its exploration of Victorian values as it was at its time of publication.

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The Silence Of The Lambs

by Thomas Harris

Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent…
A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath’s mind– in the deadly search for a serial killer…
Thomas Harris is the author of “Hannibal,” “Red Dragon,” and “Black Sunday.” As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknamed “Buffalo Bill,” FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him.
That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of T”he Silence of the Lambs–”an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.

Click here to buy your copy from Booktopia, Australia’s No.1 Online Book Shop

So get your scare on today with Spooktopia. Also known as Booktopia.

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Booktopia’s Biggest Sale Ever Finishes At Midnight Tonight

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Andrew Cattanach

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I used to get books from my mother every Christmas, every birthday, for every good report card, for every selfless deed I performed. It was magical.

Sometimes I had only just turned into the kitchen and told her the good news when she would dash up the hallway and out would arrive a new Graeme Base, or a new Goosebumps book. I was astounded, and always wondered how she did it, what elves she had working for her, a veritable publishing house in her bedroom just for me.

Then one day as I was approaching teenhood I was late for a birthday party. Mum hurried me along and threw a coat on me and asked me where the present I was giving was. I replied she hadn’t given me a present to give (Not unlike the reply my father gives her at Christmas for us kids now).

So she scurried into her bedroom and grabbed the ladder and scaled to the top cupboard. There I saw it, shining like a golden star, and I would never be the same.

Hundreds of books filled the space, books on everything. There were cooking books, sporting books, music books. Books on space, on country living and city surviving. Not to mention fiction for the whole family, Spot books for nieces to Barbara Cartland for the great aunts.

She was a smart one. When she saw a deal she pillaged and conquered. And she was never caught off guard whatever the case may be.

Her stockpile still remains to this day, and come Christmas she is a very calm woman, smugly striding to that top cupboard year after year while others sit in queues on Christmas Eve.

So don’t forget everyone; it’s the last day of the Booktopia Clearance sale today.

Over 5000 titles at up to 95% off.

Classics from Hemingway, Dickens and McCarthy. Best-sellers from Clancy, Binchy, Shriver and Cussler

So click here to check out the sale page. The clock is ticking!

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Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and The Five Mile Press – you could win a book prize pack worth worth $575!

Posted on October 30, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and The Five Mile Press – you could win a book prize pack worth worth $575!

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Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Woodslane – you could win a book prize pack worth $500 or a Ken Duncan print worth $450!

Posted on October 26, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Woodslane – order Coastal Paradise Revealed or any Ken Duncan book from his photography series and go in the running to win a specially signed photograph print from Ken Duncan himself valued at $450.

AND during Booktoberfest, when you buy one or more of the excellent titles from the Woodslane Booktoberfest Showcase you go in the draw to win the lot, valued at $500.

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Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Pan Macmillan Australia – you could win a book prize pack worth $680!

Posted on October 25, 2012 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Pan Macmillan Australia – you could win a book prize pack worth $680!

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