Rosalie Ham, author of There Should be More Dancing, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Rosalie Ham author of  There Should be More Dancing, Summer at Mount Hope and The Dressmaker Ten Terrifying Questions —————————- 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? Born and raised Jerilderie, NSW. Started my school life [...]

Finalists announced for The Man Booker International 2011

News from The Man Booker Prize website: Thirteen writers have made it on to the judges’ list of finalists under serious consideration for the fourth Man Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The authors come from eight countries, five are published in translation and [...]

13 rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro

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.

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

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 [...]

Eleven by Mark Watson

For my next hit of fiction, I slid effortless into Mark Watson’s upcoming novel, Eleven. And I discovered that sometimes, gems are found in the most surprising of places.

Bryce Courtenay

If your pre-Christmas week has been unrelieved hell

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