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Fantasy fans will be happy that Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s The Gathering Storm has reached number one in the Highest New Entries and number three in the Bestseller charts this week. Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse (Red-Edged) edition has slipped to number nine. Matthew Reilly’s The Five Greatest Warriors is number one again in the Bestsellers and Michael Connelly’s Nine Dragons is top of the Fastest Movers chart followed by Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/13914/

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.

Books Alive, an Australian Government initiative, aims to encourage all Australians to turn off their screens and get reading.

In choosing to purchase one of its “50 Books You Can’t Put Down”, you are eligible to receive a FREE book – either a dazzling collection of brand-new short stories by ten of Australia’s best writers, or Grug Learns to Read, a new title in the classic Australian series.

50 Books You Can’t Put Down

The Book of Rapture by Nikki Gemmell
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
The Rip by Robert Drewe
Dead Man Running by Ross Coulthart & Duncan McNab
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
Shatter by Michael Robotham
How to Break Your Own Heart by Maggie Alderson
Dear Fatty by Dawn French
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Parky: My Autobiography by Michael Parkinson
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Through a Glass Darkly by Caroline Jones
Heart and Soul by Maeve Binchy
The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement by Virginia Lloyd
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
The Night My Bum Dropped by Gretel Killeen
To Love, Honour and Betray by Kathy Lette
The True Story of Butterfish by Nick Earls
Occy by Mark Occhilupo & Tim Baker
True Colours by Adam Gilchrist
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Australian Tragic by Jack Marx
Pacific Fury by Peter Thompson
1788 by David Hill
My God! It’s a Woman by Nancy Bird
The People’s Train by Tom Keneally
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Dog Boy by Eva Hornung
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Wanting by Richard Flanagan
Dark Country by Bronwyn Parry
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Eagle Day by Robert Muchamore
Robot Riot! by Andy Griffiths
Somebody’s Crying by Maureen McCarthy
Pearlie in the Park by Wendy Harmer
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Nixie’s Song by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
From Little Things Big Things Grow by Paul Kelly & Kev Carmody
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox & Helen Oxenbury

Since her first books were published, Manchester-based Australian author M J Hyland has been winning literary awards. But it was when Carry Me Down was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize that Hyland’s literary fame both in Australia and internationally really gained momentum. We’ve been eagerly awaiting her next book This is How, which has arrived, and shares the top of the Most Mentioned chart this week with Aravind Adiga’s Between the Assassinations.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Between the Assassinations, by Aravind Adiga
2 This Is How, by M J Hyland
3 True Story of Butterfish, The by Nick Earls
4 Scarecrow, The by Michael Connelly
5 Book of Rapture, The by Nikki Gemmell

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/07/12444/

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.

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/

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Nothing like a new Maeve Binchy title to give the charts a shake-up. Heart and Soul by the aforementioned Irish writer has claimed number one spot in both the Bestseller and Fastest Movers charts. Michael Connelly’s The Brass Verdict comes in a close second. Brisingr slides down to number four in the Bestsellers and Balance and Harmony by Neil Perry makes it to number one in the Highest New Entries–WBN.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/10/09954/

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Kathy Lette’s new book To Love, Honour and Betray (Till Divorce Us Do Part) has claimed the ‘fastest mover’ tag this week in the charts, showing once again that Lette has what it takes to get books off the shelves. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly is atop the Highest New Entries chart and Brisingr remains strong as the bestselling book this week, closely followed by 4 Ingredients, 2–WBN.

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/10/09895/

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Author Marilynne Robinson made a name for herself with her award-winning novel Gilead. Her new novel Home takes up the story of an unruly son who returns home to face his family after decades away. Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell is back with another tale based in the Big Apple. New elite, chic female characters feature in One Fifth Avenue, with a host of Manhattan adventures not unlike the original TV series

Most Mentioned

By Media Extra contributors

1 Home by Marilynne Robinson
2 Brass Verdict, The by Michael Connelly
3 One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell
4 Independence of Miss Mary Bennet, The by Colleen McCullough
5 Indignation by Philip Roth

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/10/09859/

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