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VINTAGE Books Celebrates its 21st Birthday with a Rainbow

Posted on October 27, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

VINTAGE Books have chosen a wonderful way to celebrate their 21st Birthday. They have produced a rainbow of colourful new editions of the best fiction in their impressive collection. These are some of the best, most talked about and most lauded novels published in the last 21 years. It is an astonishing list. Novels by [...]

Filed under: Contemporary Literature, Limited Editions | Tagged: Ian McEwan, J.M. Coetzee, Jeanette Winterson, Salman Rushdie, Sebastian Faulks, VINTAGE Books | Leave a Comment »

Madeleine Roux, author of Allison Hewitt Is Trapped, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on May 10, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Madeleine Roux author of Allison Hewitt Is Trapped 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 grew up in a small suburb in Minnesota, population: “tiny and some cows.” It was a [...]

Filed under: Author Interview, Fiction, Paranormal, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: Allison Hewitt Is Trapped, Books, Ian McEwan, Madeleine Roux, On Chesil Beach, Star Wars, Ten Terrifying Questions, Thackeray | Leave a Comment »

Jane Sullivan, author of Little People, answers Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on March 27, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Jane Sullivan author of Little People Ten Terrifying Questions ———————————- 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? In London. I went to George Eliot primary school, North London Collegiate School and Oxford University, where I studied [...]

Filed under: Australian Author, Author Interview, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Fiction, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: Angela Carter, Borges, Flaubert, George Eliot, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, Jane Sullivan, Justin Cronin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Little People, Penelope Fitzgerald, Peter Carey, Peter Temple, Rachel Ingalls, Roberto Bolano, Sarah Gruen, Ten Terrifying Questions, Tobias Wolff, W. G. Sebald, Wilkie Collins | Leave a Comment »

The essential Ian McEwan – from First Love, Last Rites to Solar

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

While Solar hurtles off shelves at bookstores around the world, it seems timely to revisit some of McEwan’s older books, the ones he wrote before he was a “Major English Novelist” and ones that bear discovering or rediscovering. As the author of 14 novels and short-story collections, there is a whole lot of McEwan to explore and much of it will surprise readers who “discovered” him through Atonement.

Filed under: Booktopia, Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature | Tagged: Atonement, Enduring Love, First Love Last Rites, Ian McEwan, In Between the Sheets, On Chesil Beach, Saturday, Solar, The Comfort of Strangers | Leave a Comment »

BREAKING NEWS: Atonement – The Opera!

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Booktopia

Already an Oscar-winning film, Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement is now to be turned into an opera. McEwan has called in the help of poet, Craig Raine, and composer, Michael Berkeley, and the team hope their collaborative piece will première in 2013.

Filed under: Fiction, Literature | Tagged: Breaking News, Ian McEwan | Leave a Comment »

What’s Hot for March – Twilight Graphic Novel, Lee Child, Ian McEwan plus a few surprises

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

It is always fascinating to see what people are attracted to with Booktopia Buzz. The March Buzz went out yesterday afternoon, and although people tend to read it at their leisure over time, I always like to have a peak at the click-throughs to see what is generating interest, and what is being ordered.

Filed under: Booktopia, Crime/Thriller, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Literature | Tagged: 61 Hours, Blue Bloods, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Ian McEwan, Killing Floor, Lee Child, Melissa de la Cruz, Mr Rosenblum's List, Natasha Solomons, Solar, Twilight graphic novel | Leave a Comment »

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 »

Ian McEwan’s Solar and a taste of 2010

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

Question.

How often do you pick up a new book and find yourself needing to reach for the dictionary before you have finished the first page?

Filed under: Book retailing trends, Fiction, Literature | Tagged: Beatrice and Virgil, Clive Cussler, Ian McEwan, Katie Fforde, Lionel Shriver, Marcus Zusak, Martin Amis, So Much For That, Solar, The Book Thief, the Bridge of Clay, The Life of Pi, The Pregnant Widow, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Yann Martel | Leave a Comment »

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