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If you’re lucky, you might receive a wrapped version of one of the following titles–all mentioned in the media this week. Award-winning Australian author M J Hyand’s This Is How is pegged to appear under many a Christmas tree, as well as David Malouf’s Ransom. Di Morrissey’s Silent Country and Stephen King’s Under the Dome could very well find themselves in wrapping too. And of course Bryce Courtenay’s The Story of Danny Dunn, which received the most mentions this week, will no doubt be a popular gift choice this year. Until next year.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 The Story of Danny Dunn, by Bryce Courtney
2 Under the Dome, by Stephen King
3 Ransom, by David Malouf
4 Silent Country, by Di Morrissey
5 This Is How, by M J Hyland

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/12/14307/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

Authors on tour from November to March 2010:

November
Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater)
Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)
Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough)
Judy Nunn, Random House (Maralinga)
Diana Gabaldon, Hachette (Echo in the Bone)
Paul Mercurio, Murdoch Books (Mercurio’s Menu)
Alex Miller, A&U (Lovesong)
Paullina Simons, HarperCollins (A Song in the Daylight)
Reg Mombassa, HarperCollins (The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa)
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, HarperCollins (Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s the Science)
Di Morrissey, Macmillan (The Silent Country)
Ray Martin, Random House (Ray: Stories of My Life)
Mick Fanning, Random House (Surf for your Life)
Robert Forster, Black Inc. (The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-09)
Bart Cummings, Macmillan (My Story)
Wayne Carey, Macmillan (The Truth Hurts)
Sheryl McCorry, Macmillan (Stars Over the Shiralee)
Kathryn Bonella, Macmillan (Hotel Kerobokan)
Kelly Doust, Murdoch Books (The Crafty Minx)

December
Matthew Reilly, Macmillan (The Five Greatest Warriors)
Ray Martin, Random House (Ray: Stories of My Life)
Daniel J Siegel, Scribe (Mindsight: Change your Brain and Your Life)
Philip Hoare, HarperCollins, (Leviathan, or the Whale)

February 2010
Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)
Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)
Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution and Renaissance)

March 2010
Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)
Xinran, Random House NZ (Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother) NZ only

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/14073/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

Authors on tour from November to March 2010:

November
Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater)
Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)
Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough)
Judy Nunn, Random House (Maralinga)
Diana Gabaldon, Hachette (Echo in the Bone)
Paul Mercurio, Murdoch Books (Mercurio’s Menu)
Alex Miller, A&U (Lovesong)
Paullina Simons, HarperCollins (A Song in the Daylight)
Reg Mombassa, HarperCollins (The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa)
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, HarperCollins (Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s the Science)
Di Morrissey, Macmillan (The Silent Country)
Ray Martin, Random House (Ray: Stories of My Life)
Mick Fanning, Random House (Surf for your Life)
Robert Forster, Black Inc. (The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-09)
Bart Cummings, Macmillan (My Story)
Wayne Carey, Macmillan (The Truth Hurts)
Sheryl McCorry, Macmillan (Stars Over the Shiralee)
Kathryn Bonella, Macmillan (Hotel Kerobokan)
Kelly Doust, Murdoch Books (The Crafty Minx)

December
Matthew Reilly, Macmillan (The Five Greatest Warriors)
Ray Martin, Random House (Ray: Stories of My Life)
Daniel J Siegel, Scribe (Mindsight: Change your Brain and Your Life)

February 2010
Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)
Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)
Michael Goldfarb, Scribe (Emancipation: How liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto led to Revolution and Renaissance)

March 2010
Patrick Ness, Walker Books (Monsters of Men)

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/14000/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

Authors on tour from November to March 2010:

November
Susan Duncan, Random House (A Life on Pittwater)
Ben Elton, Random House (Meltdown)
Danny Buderus, Random House (Talent is Not Enough)
Judy Nunn, Random House (Maralinga)
Diana Gabaldon, Hachette (Echo in the Bone)
Paul Mercurio, Murdoch Books (Mercurio’s Menu)
Alex Miller, A&U (Lovesong)
Paullina Simons, HarperCollins (A Song in the Daylight)
Reg Mombassa, HarperCollins (The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa)
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, HarperCollins (Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s the Science)
Di Morrissey, Macmillan (The Silent Country)
Ray Martin, Random House (Ray: Stories of My Life)
Mick Fanning, Random House (Surf for your Life)
Robert Forster, Black Inc. (The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-09)
Bart Cummings, Macmillan (My Story)
Wayne Carey, Macmillan (The Truth Hurts)
Sheryl McCorry, Macmillan (Stars Over the Shiralee)
Kathryn Bonella, Macmillan (Hotel Kerobokan)
Kelly Doust, Murdoch Books (The Crafty Minx)

December
Matthew Reilly, Macmillan (The Five Greatest Warriors)
Ray Martin, Random House (Ray: Stories of My Life)
Daniel J Siegel, Scribe (Mindsight: Change your Brain and Your Life)

February 2010
Patrick Ness, Walker Books, also touring in March (Monsters of Men)
Katherine Howell, Macmillan (Cold Justice)

source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/13912/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

A national survey of Australian book sellers has identified the biggest selling titles over the Christmas period.

The most-mentioned titles in the survey, in no particular order, were:

* Parky (Michael Parkinson, Hodder & Stoughton)
* Dear Fatty (Dawn French, Random House)
* The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Sociey (Mary Ann Shaffer, A&U)
* A Most Wanted Man (John Le Carre, Hodder Headline)
* The Slap (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U)
* Fishing for Stars (Bryce Courtenay, Viking)
* The Islands (Di Morrissey, Pan)
* The Girl who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson, Quercus)
* The Brain that Changes Itself (Norman Doidge, Scribe)
* The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga, Atlantic)
* The Boat (Nam Le, Hamish Hamilton)
* Wanting (Richard Flanagan, Knopf)
* True Colours (Adam Gilchrist, Pan)
* Occy: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo (Mark Occhilupo & Tim Baker, Random)
* Women of the Outback (Sue Williams, Michael Joseph)
* 4 Ingredients 1 & 2 (Kim McCosker & Rachel Bermingham, 4 Ingredients)
* Maggie’s Kitchen (Maggie Beer, Lantern)
* Breath (Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton)
* Never Say Die (Chris O’Brien, HarperCollins)
* Wisdom (Andrew Zuckerman, Hachette Australia)
* Scarpetta (Patricia Cornwell, Little, Brown)
* Arctic Drift (Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler, Michael Joseph)
* Guinness World Records 2009 (Craig Glenday, Guinness World Records Inc.)

And in children’s:

* The Tales of Beedle the Bard (J K Rowling, Bloomsbury)
* Enigma (Graeme Base, Viking)
* Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Mem Fox, illus. Helen Oxenbury, Viking)
* Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren & Tina Nunnally, illustrated by Lauren Child, OUP)
* The Kings of Clonmel (Ranger’s Apprentice No. 8), and the rest of the ‘Ranger’s Apprentice’ series (John Flanagan, Random)
* Hurricane Gold, and the rest of the ‘Young Bond’ series (Charlie Higson, Puffin)
* The General, and the rest of the ‘Cherub’ series (Robert Muchamore, Hodder Children’s)
* From Little Things Big Things Grow (Kevin Carmody, Paul Kelly & Peter Hudson, One Day Hill)
* The old favourites: Wind in the Willows, The Secret Garden, Enid Blyton, anything Mem Fox, The Hungry Caterpillar etc.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/01/10574/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

The ubiquitous James Patterson has struck again, with novel Cross Country gracing the top of both the Bestsellers and Highest New Entries charts this week. Australian author Di Morrissey who has almost as great a presence on the bookshelves as Patterson, is this week’s ‘fastest mover’ with The Islands. Books involving sport are faring well also, True Colours by cricketer Adam Gilchrist features strongly in the Bestsellers and the Fastest Movers, as does Kevin Sheedy’s Stand your Ground in the Highest New Entries–WBN.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/11/10076/

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The results for the Bestsellers are in for this week and Michael Connelly’s The Brass Verdict has made it to number one. The irrepressible Stephenie Meyer and Twilight comes in at number two as well as number one in the Fastest Movers chart. The Islands by Di Morrissey is the ‘highest new entry’ and in second place is the avuncular Michael Parkinson with Parky.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/11/10007/

This article from Thorpe Bowker’s Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker