Caroline Overington : Five Fiction Favourites for 2011

Posted on November 17, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Caroline Overington author of Matilda is Missing, I Came To Say Goodbye and Ghost Child reveals… The 5 best novels I read this year are… The Spare Room by Helen Garner Blurb: Helen lovingly prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola. She is coming to visit for three weeks, to receive treatment she believes [...]

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My personal picks for 2011: Novels you can give as gifts with confidence

Posted on November 2, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

This year I read more novels by living, breathing writers than by stone cold dead writers. This is a first for me. However, if the truth be told, many of the contemporary novels I started were left unfinished. It’s partly due to the nature of the job. Publishers throw box loads of fiction at us [...]

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Matilda is Missing by Caroline Overington: a review by John Purcell

Posted on September 20, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

I read Matilda is Missing in a few days. I was hooked within pages and found myself reading well into the night. I would pick it up in between times, too, snatching bite sized portions of the story while I was rushing to get ready in the morning – while the kettle boiled, before the [...]

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Get Reading with Booktopia

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

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

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Matilda is Missing by Caroline Overington is out in October

Posted on August 2, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Last year Toni Whitmont, editor-in-chief of the Booktopia BUZZ chose Caroline Overington’s I Came to Say Goodbye for her inaugural BUZZ CLUB pick. Choosing a book club’s first book is difficult. Choosing a book for a club made up of 25,000 picky readers must have been terrifying. But Toni knows her stuff and I don’t [...]

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Hardback Vs Paperback – Is this, too, a gender issue?

Posted on May 18, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

A complaint has been lodged in the UK and echoed here in Australia – women writers of fiction are not being taken seriously. Case in point: Fewer women than men are published in hardback. This point may seem meaningless. The economy and ease of the paperback makes it the choice of any sensible consumer, anyway. [...]

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The 50 Must Read Australian Novels (50 to 41) (The Popular Vote 2010)

Posted on December 13, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

A while ago now, whilst playing… ahem… doing important and vital Booktopia business on twitter and facebook, I decided to ask Booktopia’s followers and friends what they thought were the ‘must read’ Australian novels. Many disparage twitter and facebook by suggesting that it is both frivolous and time wasting (I being of their number some few [...]

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Caroline Overington, author of I Came to Say Goodbye, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on September 14, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru Asks Caroline Overington, author of I Came to Say Goodbye and Ghost Child Ten Terrifying Questions —————————————- 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 the Sunshine maternity hospital, in Victoria. The original building [...]

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I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

You name a personal issue that is on the worry list of contemporary Australians and Overington has somehow woven it into her story

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I Came to Say Goodbye by Caroline Overington

Posted on August 23, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

“Brilliant, original, heart-breaking. I couldn’t put it down.” Mia Freedman Who is left behind when a family falls apart? It was four o’clock in the morning. A young woman pushed through the hospital doors. Staff would later say they thought the woman was a new mother, returning to her child – and in a way, [...]

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