On March 1, 2010 I posted the first of the Ten Terrifying Questions interviews. Since that date I have posted over 200 interviews with authors ranging from mega selling global stars like Jackie Collins and Lee Child to brilliant, relatively unknown debut authors such as Favel Parret and Rebecca James. On the way I’ve interviewed [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Peter Carey two time winner of the Man Booker Prize and three time winner of the Miles Franklin Award, author of Parrot and Olivier in America, My Life As A Fake, The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith, The Tax Inspector, Bliss, Illywhacker, Jack Maggs and many more… including his new [...]
Filed under: Australian Author, Author Interview, Contemporary Literature, Literary Prizes, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: Bliss, Books, Illywhacker, Jack Maggs, My Life As A Fake, Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey, Ten Terrifying Questions, The Chemistry of Tears, The Tax Inspector, The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith | Leave a Comment »
Secrets and Lies is a series of eight modern classics with deception at their very core.
Filed under: Book Recommendations, Contemporary Literature, Fiction | Tagged: Andrew Sean Greer, Hanif Kureishi, Illywhacker, Intimacy, Jane Harris, Kazuo Ishiguro, Owen Sheers, Paul Auster, Peter Carey, Resistance, Sebastian Barry, The Book of Illusions, The Observations, The Remains of the Day, The Secret Scripture, The Story of a Marriage | Leave a Comment »
The Booktopia Book Guru asks Bernie McGill author of The Butterfly Cabinet 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 parish of Lavey in County Derry, Northern Ireland, the youngest of ten children. [...]
Filed under: Author Interview, Contemporary Literature, Writing Style, Writing tips | Tagged: A S Byatt, Alice Munro, Alice Sebold, Andrea Levy, Anne Enright, Anne Michaels, Annie Proulx, At Swim-Two-Birds, Beloved, Bernie McGill, Claire Keegan, Colm Toibin, Colum McCann, Flann O’Brien, Flannery O’Connor, John Banville, Joseph O’Connnor, Lionel Shriver, Maggie O‘Farrell, Margaret Atwood, Martin McDonagh, Monica Ali, Pat Barker, Patrick McCabe, Peter Carey, Sebastian Barry, Ten Terrifying Questions, The Butterfly Cabinet, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith | Leave a Comment »
The Booktopia Book Guru asks Eoin Colfer author of Plugged and the enormously successful Artemis Fowl series 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 and raised in the small town of Wexford in South [...]
Filed under: Author Interview, Crime/Thriller, Fiction, Young Adult | Tagged: Artemis Fowl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eoin Colfer, Kate Bush, Ken Bruen, Peter Carey, Plugged, Sherlock Holmes, Ten Terrifying Questions, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Treasure Island | Leave a Comment »
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 »
We are counting down The 50 Must Read Australian Novels as voted by our good and learned friends on twitter and facebook – today we move from 30 to 21. The list creation process was fairly simple – I asked for nominations and hundreds of titles were suggested. I then made a list and asked [...]
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The Booktopia Book Guru asks Maggie Alderson author of Shall We Dance?, Mad About the Boy, How to Break Your Own Heart and many more… 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 London [...]
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From The Man Booker Prize website: The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. A total of 138 books were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ longlist of 13 books. The longlist includes: Peter Carey Parrot and [...]
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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 »
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