{"id":83050,"date":"2018-09-12T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T00:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=83050"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T04:40:21","slug":"news-wonky-donky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/news-wonky-donky\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK NEWS: The Wonky Donkey goes viral, Henry Cavill cast in The Witcher and a new award for The Dry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">you&#8217;ve been wondering what&#8217;s been going on in the world of books lately, check out this quick news roundup!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The Wonky Donkey takes over the world &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-wonky-donkey-craig-smith\/prod9781869439262.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=book_news_sept_12\"><em>The Wonky Donkey<\/em><\/a> by New Zealander author, Craig Smith, is selling out in bookstores everywhere after this adorable video when viral over the weekend. The video shows a Scottish grandmother laughing uncontrollably while trying to read the book to her grandchild. This video is taking over the world and with good reason. Watch it and try not to laugh!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gbsZohEMn38\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><br \/>\nHenry Cavill is Geralt!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Henry Cavill (AKA Superman) has been cast to play the lead character, Geralt,\u00a0 in an upcoming Netflix series called <em>The Witcher<\/em>, based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-witcher\/series4580.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=book_news_sept_12\">bestselling series of books <\/a>by Andrzej Sapkowski.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix says, &#8220;The Witcher is described as &#8220;an epic tale of fate and family. Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-83051 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Are-you-a-crime-fiction.png\" alt=\"book news wonky donky\" width=\"665\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Jane Harper wins Barry Award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jane Harper&#8217;s bestselling debut novel, <em>The Dry<\/em>, has won The Barry Award for Best First Mystery Novel!<\/p>\n<p>The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication for crime fiction readers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m absolutely thrilled to have won the Barry Award for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheDry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheDry<\/a>! A big thankyou to the judges and all the booksellers and readers who have supported the novel since its release. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bouchercon2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bouchercon2018<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FHJTfeKnGA\">pic.twitter.com\/FHJTfeKnGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jane Harper (@janeharperautho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janeharperautho\/status\/1037974570354008064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Hot Tip: Weekly Book Rec<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">One<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">of our biggest selling titles this past week was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/no-friend-but-the-mountains-behrouz-boochani\/prod9781760555382.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=book_news_sept_12\"><em>No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison <\/em><\/a><\/span>by Behrouz Boochani. Published at the end of July, this book seems to be selling more and more copies, with popularity spreading by word of mouth.<\/p>\n<p>The story of how Behrouz Boochani wrote the entire book in Manus Prison, painstakingly typing each sentence out in text messages, is just mind-blowing. Poetic and heartbreaking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/no-friend-but-the-mountains-behrouz-boochani\/prod9781760555382.html?utm_source=booktopian_blog&amp;utm_medium=booktopian&amp;utm_campaign=book_news_sept_12\">click here to order your copy of the book everyone is talking about.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been wondering what&#8217;s been going on in the world of books lately, check out this quick news roundup! The Wonky Donkey takes over the world &#8230; The Wonky Donkey by New Zealander author, Craig Smith, is selling out in bookstores everywhere after this adorable video when viral over the weekend. The video shows a Scottish grandmother laughing uncontrollably while trying to read the book to her grandchild. This video is taking over the world and with good reason. Watch it and try not to laugh! Henry Cavill is Geralt! Henry Cavill (AKA Superman) has been cast to play the lead character, Geralt,\u00a0 in an upcoming Netflix series called The Witcher, based on the bestselling series of books by Andrzej Sapkowski. Netflix says, &#8220;The Witcher is described as &#8220;an epic tale of fate and family. Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.&#8221; Jane Harper wins Barry Award Jane Harper&#8217;s bestselling debut novel, The Dry, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":83055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[9167,2405,7214,9168,9165,9166],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Social-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83050"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83074,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83050\/revisions\/83074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}