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Australian Jessica Shirvington’s young-adult novel Embrace to be brought to TV by Steven Spielberg
From Michael Idato in The Sydney Morning Herald: Local author Jessica Shirvington, the wife of champion athlete and Foxtel presenter Matt Shirvington, is poised to conquer Hollywood. Shirvington’s supernatural young-adult novel series Embrace is to be adapted into a TV series by the famed producer Steven Spielberg. The project, commissioned by the US network The CW, is already being haile... Read more
Booktopia Presents: Caroline Baum in conversation with Chris Cleave
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FyEmR9wT2U&rel=0] GOLD by Chris Cleave The extraordinary new novel from the author of international bestseller THE OTHER HAND. Usually, this is where we’d tell you what this book is about. But with Chris Cleave, it’s a bit different. Because if you’ve read THE OTHER HAND or INCENDIARY , you’ll know that what his books are abou... Read more
ONE TO READ IN THE BATH: In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran by John Taylor
The frank, funny and intimate autobiography of Duran Duran’s legendary bassist, John Taylor With Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest songs of our time. From the disco dazzle of debut single ‘Planet Earth’ right up to their latest number one album All You Need is Now, Duran Duran has always had the power to sweep the world onto its feet. It’s been a ... Read more
Caroline Baum’s Highlights from the September Booktopia BUZZ
What’s your take on coincidence? Sometimes it’s hard not to ask yourself how themes and ideas come to share the same moment in the ether… so when I read Courtney Collins’ The Burial this month, a remarkable début novel based on the true story of a female bushranger, swiftly followed by Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist, another very polished first novel from the US, ... Read more
Caroline Baum asks, Which writers do you turn to for moral guidance?
After reading Ailsa Piper’s very thought-provoking, candid and energising Sinning Across Spain and talking with her at the recent Byron Bay Writers Festival, I wondered about what a list of typically 21st century sins might look like. I like the list she quotes from the Vatican, not normally one of my most trusted sources of moral guidance, but they do supplement the traditional Seven Deadly Si... Read more
On the Delicate Art of Turning Boys into Men…
The US is going nuts for another new contemporary romance, On the Island. The set up is simple, a thirty year old woman and a sixteen year old boy get stranded on a deserted island together. The results are anything but simple. You won’t find tonnes of sex in this one. It is a real romance. There is however bucket loads of sex in The Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings where a newly married ... Read more
MUST PRE-ORDER: Nine Days by Toni Jordan
It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn’t quite realise yet that the situation is serious. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business—your own and everyone else’s—as usual. And young Kip Westaway, failed scholar and stablehand, is living the most important day of his life. Kip’s momentous day is one of nine that will set the course for each m... Read more
BIG DÉBUT: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, The Yellow Birds is already being hailed as a modern classic. “The war tried to kill us in the spring,” begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launc... Read more
COMING TO TV: Howzat!: Kerry Packer’s War
England, Summer 1975. The Australian cricket team, visiting for an Ashes series, fields players who will become legends of the game Ian Chappell, Rodney Marsh, Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson against celebrated English power-cricketers Tony Greig, John Snow and Phil Edmonds. It is the pinnacle of the game of cricket the two oldest enemies in the game going head to head. At the beautifully green gro... Read more
