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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.

Author of the wildly popular Tully and The Bronze Horseman, Paullina Simons is now in Australia to promote her new novel A Song in the Daylight. Australian fans will be particularly chuffed to discover that a portion of the book is set in outback Australia. Also, Barry Humphries is getting plenty of press for his book Handling Edna (facetiously subtitled The Unauthorised Biography). In it, Humphries details how Edna went from a modest Moonee Ponds housewife to moving in the most elite social circles in the world, which entailed advising the Queen and schmoozing with many a Hollywood star. Other titles getting mentions were Bart: My Life by J B Cummings, Andrew McGahan’s Wonders of a Godless World and David Foster’s Sons of the Rumour.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Handling Edna, by Barry Humphries
2 Song in the Daylight, A by Paullina Simons
3 Bart: My Life, by J B Cummings
4 Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation, by Andrew Lambert
5 Garden Talk, by Colin Campbell

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/10/13730/

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.

If anyone’s been wondering what local author Mandy Sayer has been up to, wonder no longer. She’s been busy editing The Australian Long Story, which is now available in bookshops. You can read about the story of a woman who walked across a desert in Paula Constant’s Sahara, and Paullina Simons fans will be thrilled to hear there’s another page-turner in store–this one’s called A Song in the Daylight. Confessions of a Not-So-Secret Agent written by Harry M Miller, has raised an eyebrow or two, it’s also in the top five, as is Ian Rankin’s The Complaints.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Australian Long Story, The by Mandy Sayer
2 Complaints, The by Ian Rankin
3 Confessions of a Not-So-Secret Agent, by Harry M Miller
4 Sahara, by Paula Constant
5 Song in the Daylight, A by Paullina Simons

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/10/13667/

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.