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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

Filed under: Australian Author, Australian Rural Fiction, Biography/Memoir, Book retailing trends, Booktopia, Children's Fiction, Children's Books, Contemporary Literature, Contemporary Women's Fiction, Crime/Thriller, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Non Fiction, Paranormal, Picture Books, Politics, Romance, Sport, Travel Writing, Young Adult | Tagged: A Little Bird Told Me, Baby Wombat's Week, Caleb's Crossing, Caroline Overington, David Nicholls, Emily Rodda, Freedom, Garth Nixz, Geraldine Brooks, Get Reading, I Came to Say Goodbye, Jackie French, Jonathan Franzen, kasey Chambers, Kate Grenville, Kim Scott, Leigh Hobbs, Listening to Country, Mice, Mr Badger, Niromi de Soyza, One Day, Past the Shallows, Rick Riordan, Ros Moriarty, Sarah Thornhill, Susan Duncan, Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad\, That Deadman Dance, The Briny Café, The Golden Door, The Hunger Games, The Passage, The Tamil Tigress, Troubletwister, When God Was a Rabbit | Leave a Comment »

Winners of the 2011 Australian Book Industry Awards

Posted on July 26, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

What follows is a selection of the winners announced at last night’s awards ceremony. ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2011 WINNER: Bereft written by Chris Womersley, published by Scribe Publications It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are [...]

Filed under: Australian Author, Literary Prizes | Tagged: After America, At Home With The Templetons, Australian Book Industry Awards, Bereft, Campaign Ruby, How it Feels, I Came to Say Goodby, Rocks in the Belly, That Deadman Dance, The Distant Hours, The Legacy | Leave a Comment »

A shortlist of the 2011 ABIA shortlists…

Posted on July 8, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Have your ‘non-binding and totally for fun‘ say – vote in our polls below. Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2011 Bereft written by Chris Womersley, published by Scribe Publications It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by [...]

Winners of the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Announced

Posted on July 8, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Arts Minister, Simon Crean, today announced the winners of the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. FICTION: WINNER: Traitor – Stephen Daisley In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast [...]

Filed under: Australian Author, Children's Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Literary Prizes, Literature, Non Fiction, Young Adult | Tagged: 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Awards., David Musgrave, Glissando, Kim Scott, Notorious, Roberta Lowing, Roger McDonald, Stephen Daisley, That Deadman Dance, Traitor, When Colts Ran | Leave a Comment »

Amazing Face, Bossypants and the great Zoe Foster Tina Fey face-off: review (of sorts) by Toni Whitmont

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

While Zoe Foster may be the editor of a beauty website, Tina Fey has been concerned about body image for some time.
No surprise then that she has her own take on beauty, body and all that biz in Bossypants.

Filed under: Australian Author, Biography/Memoir, Contemporary Literature, Design and Style, Humour, Non Fiction, Social Commentary | Tagged: 30 Rock, A C Grayling, Amazing Face, Bossypants, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, Kim Scott, Miles Franklin, Paula Begoun\, Saturday Night Live, Tea Obrecht, That Deadman Dance, The Good Book, The Tiger's Wife, Tina Fey, Zoe Foster | 2 Comments »

Kim Scott wins the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award for That Deadman Dance

Posted on June 22, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Congratulations Kim Scott WINNER: That Deadman’s Dance Judges’ Formal Comments: ‘Kaya. Writing such a word, Bobby Wabalanginy couldn’t help but smile. Nobody had done writ that before, he thought. Nobody ever writ hello or yes that way!’ This is the beginning of Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance, a powerful and innovative fiction that shifts our [...]

Filed under: Australian Author, Contemporary Literature, Literary Prizes | Tagged: 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Bereft, Chris Womersley, Kim Scott, Roger McDonald, That Deadman Dance, When Colts Ran | Leave a Comment »

The three contenders for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Chris Womersley, Kim Scott and Roger McDonald, answer Ten Terrifying Questions

Posted on June 21, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The Booktopia Book Guru asks the three contenders for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Chris Womersley, Kim Scott and Roger McDonald, Ten Terrifying Questions ——————————– 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourselves – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? Chris Womersley: I was born in Melbourne in [...]

Filed under: Australian Author, Author Interview, Contemporary Literature, Literary Prizes | Tagged: 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Bereft, Chris Womersley, Kim Scott, Roger McDonald, That Deadman Dance, When Colts Ran | Leave a Comment »

2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: Shortlists Announced

Posted on May 26, 2011 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Arts Minister Simon Crean today announced the shortlists for the 2011 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Minister Crean said the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards recognise the outstanding literary talent in our country. “This year is the fourth year of the Awards, and also marks the greatest number of entries received in the history of the Awards,” [...]

Toni Whitmont review: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna and other winners from the Sydney Writers’ Festival

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

For a literary festival that was built around the theme of power, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, which finished up on Sunday night, certainly packed a punch.

Filed under: Author Interview, Children's Books, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Literary Festivals, Literary Prizes, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Publishing, Young Adult | Tagged: A C Grayling, Aminatta Forna, Cassandra Clare, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, David Mitchell, Even Silence Has an End, Fatima Bhutto, Gail Dines, Ingrid Betancourt, Kim Scott, Songs of Blood and Sword, Sydney Writers' Festival, That Deadman Dance, The Good Book, The Memory of Love, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Tiger's Wife, Truth | 1 Comment »

Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Toni Whitmont

I just wanted to share my excitement about the imminent publication of Geraldine Brooks’ new book, Caleb’s Crossing.

Filed under: Australian Author, Biography/Memoir, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Classic, Literature, Non Fiction | Tagged: Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks, Kate Grenville, Kim Scott, March, Nine Parts of Desire, People of the Book (novel), Pulitzer Prize, Richard Flanagan, Secret River, That Deadman Dance, Wanting, Year of Wonders | 1 Comment »

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