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Cherise Saywell, author of Desert Fish, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on February 28, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Cherise Saywell author of Desert Fish 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 Northern NSW, in Lismore, the oldest of four girls. I grew up nearby in Casino. [...]

Filed under: Australian Author, Author Interview, Contemporary Literature, Fiction | Tagged: Anne Enright, Carson McCullers, Cherise Saywell, Daphne du Maurier, Desert Fish, Flannery O’Conner, Helen Dunmore, Hilary Mantel, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kazuo Ishiguro, MJ Hyland, Sarah Waters, The Interpreter of Maladies | Leave a Comment »

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. A review by novelist Kylie Ladd.

Posted on July 26, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

You don’t need me to tell you that Wolf Hall, by British novelist Hilary Mantel, is good. It won the 2009 Man Booker prize, and was also shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel award and 2010 Orange Prize for fiction. That sort of success speaks for itself. Clearly, the novel is good. What I can [...]

Filed under: Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature, Review | Tagged: Hilary Mantel, Kylie Ladd, Man Booker, Wolf Hall | Leave a Comment »

Barbara Kingsolver Wins The Orange Prize

Posted on June 10, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

LONDON (AP) – American novelist Barbara Kingsolver took home the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday with her sixth novel, The Lacuna, beating bookmakers’ favorite Hilary Mantel. Kingsolver, who had not published a novel in nine years, said she was “stunned and thrilled” as she received the 30,000 pound ($45,000 ) prize — open [...]

Filed under: Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature | Tagged: Barbara Kingsolver, Hilary Mantel, Orange Prize for Fiction, the Lacuna | 1 Comment »

The Orange Prize for Fiction 2010 Shortlist

Posted on May 27, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Very Thought of You Rosie Alison England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from London to escape the impending Blitz. Torn from her mother, eight-year-old Anna Sands is relocated with other children to a large Yorkshire estate which [...]

Filed under: Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature | Tagged: Barbara Kingsolver, Hilary Mantel | 2 Comments »

The Lost Man Booker Prize : Shirley Hazzard, Mary Renault, H.E.Bates, Melvyn Bragg

Posted on February 4, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

A quick look at the list of Man Booker Prize Winners is enough to convince anyone that it is the premier literary award. Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, William Golding, Arundhati Roy to name but a few winners… And yet we can always come up with the names of authors [...]

Filed under: Booktopia, Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature | Tagged: Arundhati Roy, Brian Aldiss, Christy Brown, Elaine Feinstein, Francis King, H.E.Bates, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, J.G.Farrell, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, Melvyn Bragg, Muriel Spark, Nina Bawden, Patrick White, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie, Shiva Naipaul, William Golding | 3 Comments »

The Best of 2009 -Vampire Academy Series, Sookie Stackhouse, Under the Dome

Posted on January 19, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Book sales BOOOOOMED in 2009. Some suggest this was caused by the Global Financial Crisis which sent us scurrying off to the safety of our beds and the reliability of a good book. Others suggest that in the face of our present technology overload – the three remotes needed to turn on a TV, the [...]

Filed under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Fiction, Crime/Thriller, Fantasy, Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature, Non Fiction, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: Alex Miller, Hilary Mantel, Michael Connelly, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Under the Dome, Wolf Hall | Leave a Comment »

Booktopia’s Christmas Clearance Sale – Our Biggest Yet

Posted on December 24, 2009 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

starting this afternoon all of our bargain books will be further reduced

Filed under: Bargains, Biography/Memoir, Children's Fiction, Coffee Table Books, Crime/Thriller, Design and Style, Fantasy, Fiction, Gift Books, Literary Prizes, Literature, Non Fiction, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: A.L.Kennedy, Agatha Christie, Alexander Kent, Alice Sebold, Andrea Camilleri, Anita Shreve, Ann Patchett, Anne Enright, Anne Tyler, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Bargains, Bernard Cornwell, Carol Shields, Catherine Cookson, Cathy Kelly, Chris Ryan, Christmas, Clearance, Colin Dexter, Danielle Steel, Dean Koontz, Dick Francis, Douglas Kennedy, Edward St Aubyn, Greg Isles, Henning Mankell, Hilary Mantel, Ian Rankin, Irene Nemirovsky, Jack Higgins, James Patterson, Janet Evanovitch, Joanne Harris, Johanna Lindsey, Karin Slaughter, Kathy Reichs, Katie Fforde, Lindsay Davis, Low Prices, Marian Keyes, Michael Connelly, Minette Walters, Ngaio Marsh, Patrick O’Brian, Paullina Simons, Peter Robinson, Peter Temple, Philip Roth, RD Wingfield, Reduced, Robert Crais, Roddy Doyle, Sale, Sheila O’Flanagan, Sidney Sheldon, Thomas Keneally, Tom Wolfe, Tony Parsons, Val McDermid, Virginia Andrews | Leave a Comment »

Great price for Man Booker winner Wolf Hall

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Toni Whitmont

We were up in the pre-dawn hours yesterday following the news and put in our order of the winning book by the time doors opened at the publisher. We have Wolf Hall down from $32.99 to $24.95.

Filed under: Bargains, Fiction, Literary Prizes | Tagged: Hilary Mantel, Man Booker | Leave a Comment »

Man Booker Prize Short List

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Toni Whitmont

The 2009 Man Booker Prize short list – there is thundering narrative, great inventiveness, poetry and sharp human insight in abundance.

Filed under: Fiction, Literary Prizes | Tagged: Adam Foulds, Byatt, Coetzee, Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters, Simon Mawer, Summerland, The Children's Book, The Glass Room, The Little Stranger, The Quickening Maze, Wolf Hall | Leave a Comment »

Man Booker Longlist

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Toni Whitmont

Amid all the packing and unpacking this week, we had barely time to scratch ourselves, but we have just got to mention the Man Booker Prize longlist. A baker’s dozen, two past winners, four past listed authors and two new writers.

Filed under: Fiction, Literary Prizes | Tagged: A S Byatt, Adam Foulds, Colm Toibin, Ed O’Loughlin, Hilary Mantel, James Lever, James Scudmore, JM Coetzee, Man Booker, Samantha Harvey, Sarah Hall, Sarah Waters, Simon Mawer, William Trevor | Leave a Comment »

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