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What a cracker of an edition I have for you for December. How is this for a line-up? Gifts, give-aways and goodies to win include an amazing high quality Ken Duncan signed and numbered print valued at nearly $2,000 to be won by a purchaser of Australia: Our Island Paradise Read more

What I do get to do however, is to sample a LOT of books, and I get to fall in love with a few. And the few that take me to a different place, more than make up for the rest of the 450 on that list that made me want to go out and re-plant the trees. So here they are, my top picks for 2011, for those of you for whom Morrissey and Reilly just don't cut it. Read more

At the end of the day, once you finish The Freudian Slip you’ll most likely be asking yourself the same question that has been niggling at me since I flipped the last page. Where is my time machine? Read more

Charlotte Wood author of Animal People, The Children and more… reveals… The 5 best novels I read this year are… Read more

StephenKing.com has announced that The Wind Through the Keyhole, the next instalment of the epic The Dark Tower series is set for release in 2012. Dear Constant Readers, At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out Now), I started thinking—and dreaming—about Mid-World again. The major story of Roland and his ka-tet was told, but I realized there w... Read more

Recently, I was given Miroslav Penkov's East of the West collection. Never heard of him? Either had I. While Penkov is a debut author, Rodney Hall's latest collection, Silence, comes to us from the pen of a true master. Read more

Alice Hoffman has chosen the calendar settings wisely for her upcoming novel The Dovekeepers, which is a remarkable re-telling of the Masada story. Read more

Today marks the launch of Get Reading 2011, an Australia-wide program designed to promote books and writing. As part of the campaign anybody who buys a book in a participating bookshop will receive a free book, Ten Short Stories You Must Read in 2011, featuring contributions from John Birmingham, Charlotte Wood, Caroline Overington, Cate Kennedy, Larissa Behrendt, Jessica Rudd and myself (among... Read more

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 Read more

Sarah Thornhill is a fitting ending to the trilogy. Grenville writes like a poet, matching her rhythm and cadence to the characters and the setting. The story is utterly compelling and the emotion is taut and eventually, overwhelming Read more