We
were all greatly saddened this week with the news of Jane McGrath's
untimely passing. Jane's husband and former Australian
cricketer, Glenn, was to speak at the Australian Booksellers'
Conference in Melbourne last weekend, but was unable to attend.
Nobody at the conference knew that the situation was quite so dire.
Rest in peace, Jane - you were, and will continue to be, a great
inspiration to us all - particularly the many thousands of people
who battle cancer each year in Australia. Boomerang Books has
contributed $200 to the McGrath Foundation and invites all of our
customers to make a contribution to this charity at
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Michael Robotham - to all customers who purchase one of the fifty
books listed as part of the campaign. This year the theme is
'50 books you can't put down'. You'll have to wait until 27
July to see the selection of books...
Almost 3000 copies of Gordon's cookbooks were sold at the Sydney Good Food Show over the weekend of the 20-23 June. Make sure you order your copy of Healthy Appetite (9781844006366) released 1 July.
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Boomerang Books Bulletin - 27 June. 2008 Miles Franklin Award winner announced Dear [Name], The annual Miles Franklin Award is the most coveted Australian literary award and last week it was presented to Steven Carroll for his book, The Time We Have Taken. Further details in this edition of the Bulletin...
Boomerang Books will participate in the 2008 Books Alive campaign
commencing in late July - this is the first time that we have been
involved. Basically, the program offers a free book -
Bombproof
Happy reading!
Clayton
Wehner
Stephenie Meyer's books are by far and away the quickest off the mark this week with Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse taking first, second and third positions respectively in the Fastest Mover chart. Three titles that have been in rotation of late in the Bestsellers chart; 4 Ingredients, Sail and Breath all vie for top spot but it is James Patterson's novel involving thrills on the high seas, Sail, that takes the cake in the Bestseller bunfight this week. 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
Upcoming Discount Day - Friday 4 July 2008 Every month Boomerang Books runs at least one 20% Discount Day. Most books in our database are discounted by 20% off the retail price on these special days. Take advantage of this fantastic offer! The next discount day is on Friday 4 July 2008. Make sure that you visit our website on the weekend and take advantage of the fantastic cheap prices at Boomerang Books.
The Time We Have Taken wins Miles Franklin The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll (Fourth Estate) is the winner of this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award.
‘The Miles Franklin comes with the gravitas of a whole literary tradition and you feel that weight almost instantly.' The Time We Have Taken is the third in a trilogy that includes The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, both of which were shortlisted for the prestigious award in previous years. The judging panel--professor Robert Dixon, professor Morag Fraser AM, Ian Hicks, Lesley McKay and Regina Sutton--described Carroll's novel as ‘a poised, philosophically profound exploration' and ‘a stand-alone work that is moving and indelible in its evocation of the extraordinary in ordinary lives'. 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 Need to buy in bulk? Boomerang Books is pleased to offer bulk discounts on orders over $1000. And remember, we will only charge a single $6.95 postage and handling fee per order, regardless of how many parcels we need to send! Information about bulk orders...
The cover for Michael Robotham's Bombproof, the giveaway title for this year's Books Alive campaign '50 Books You Can't Put Down', has been released. Boomerang Books will participate in the Books Alive program for the first time in 2008. The campaign commences on 27 July 2008. More details later... Romantic Book of the Year awards announced The finalists in the Romance Writers of Australia's 2008 Romantic Book of the Year awards have been announced. Click here to find out which books made the cut...
June Giveaway - Last Chance! Each month Boomerang Books gives away free books to lucky customers! This month we're giving away 2 signed copies of Careless by Deborah Robertson and 2 signed copies of On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. To go into the draw to win, simply complete the online entry form on our Monthly Giveaway page. Two of the four books will be awarded to members of our Facebook group that enter the giveaway...
Buy Gordon Ramsay's new book here... Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 attracts record crowds, regional events suffer The introduction of two new venues at Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay helped attract an additional 13,000 people to this year's Sydney Writers' Festival, say organisers. The 2008 festival, which ran in late May, attracted 80,000, 73,000 of them in Sydney, compared to the 60,000 that attended Sydney events in 2007. ‘Ticket sales and book sales were also the highest ever recorded,' said an SWF statement. However, there was a drop in regional attendances ‘which was expected', according to festival director Wendy Were. ‘Developing two major venues at Walsh Bay without additional funding or staffing meant that we were unable to resource an increase in regional events at the same time,' she said. This article from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker Magazine Subscriptions - get your favourite magazines delivered to your door - cheaper than the newsagent! You can save plenty off the in-store price of Australia's best magazines! Our partners at iSUBSCRIBE Australia carry over 1,200 local and national magazine, trade and newspaper titles and a selection of international titles online. Subscriptions can be purchased conveniently online, with a wide selection and special offers available.
Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke (Viking) was named the winner of the Nielsen BookData 2008 Booksellers Choice Award at the 84th Annual Booksellers Dinner last Monday night. After a moment of confusion, in which the slide for Janette Turner Hospital's shortlisted novel Orpheus Lost was projected onto the screen and mistaken as the winner by the audience, Cooke took to the stage, good humouredly asking the organisers ‘Are you sure?' The author paid tribute to the team at Penguin, saying she ‘could not ask for a more professional bunch of people', and thanking them for allowing her to ‘do it properly'--referring to the in-depth research undertaken for her book, which involved the Penguin IT department collating 4000 responses to 16 questions. Cooke amused the audience with tales of her own bookselling days, and said she was ‘so excited this is a booksellers award.' ‘I just think it's the most glamorous thing in the world,' she said of the profession. Girl Stuff: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years, beat shortlisted titles Orpheus Lost (Janette Turner Hospital); The Memory Room (Chrisopher Koch, Knopf); 4 Ingredients (Kim McCosker & Rachel Berminham, 4 Ingredients) and stable mate titles The Peasant Prince (Li Cunxin, illus by Anne Spudvilas, Viking) and Maggie's Harvest (Maggie Beer, Lantern). http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/06/08549/ 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 Boomerang Book Calendar A new addition to our website is the Boomerang Book Calendar containing upcoming author events, festivals, new releases and other information that is of interest to Australian book lovers. If you have a date that you would like to appear in the Boomerang Book Calendar, we welcome your input - contact@boomerangbooks.com Visit the Boomerang Book Calendar... June Bestsellers
Have you visited the Boomerang Books Info Bank? The Info Bank contains all the latest book news and reviews. You can even get this news delivered to you via Really Simple Syndication or RSS. What is RSS? Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a format for sharing headlines and other online content, allowing you to browse content from many sites at once with a news reader. To subscribe to this site's news feeds, you need a news-reader program on your computer or an account at one of the many online news readers on the web. Get RSS feeds of book news and reviews here... What's Hot in the Media
Most Mentioned in the Media this week: 1 Other, The by David Guterson 2 Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance by Giles Milton 4 Where Underpants Come from by Joe Bennett 5 Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation by Anne Henderson http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/newsletters/mx/218/print/ 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
Books Alive ambassador Michael Robotham has been shortlisted for the £2000 (A$4100) CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for crime writing. Robotham was nominated for Shatter (Little Brown), which the judges described as ‘dark, deep and brooding; everything a psychological thriller should be'. Sometime Australian, the south-east Aisa-based author Colin Cotterill, is in contention for the £20,000 (A$41,000) Duncan Lawrie Dagger for his novel The Coroner's Lunch (Text). Both awards will be announced in London on 10 July as part of the 2008 Duncan Lawrie Daggers. For more information, click here. http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/06/08602/ 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
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De Niro's Game by Lebanese author Rawi Hage (Picador) is the winner of this year's International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. With prize money of €100,000 (A$165,000) the IMPAC award is the world's richest prize for a work of fiction. The award's judges described Hage's novel about friends who have grown up in war-torn Beirut as ‘an eloquent, forthright and at times beautifully written' first novel. Hage beat seven other finalists to the prize, including Australian Gail Jones who was nominated for Dreams of Speaking. http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/06/08572/ 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
Penguin is the 2008 publisher of the year, Scribe is small publisher of the year, Gleebooks the independent bookseller of the year and Dymocks Garden City Booragoon chain bookseller of the year, following the announcement of the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) at a gala dinner in Melbourne last Sunday night. 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 Services for Authors and Publishers Published a book? There are a number of things that Boomerang Books can do for you to help sell your book - we can list your book in our database, we can publish reviews and we can promote your book in this newsletter. Learn more about services for authors and publishers... You have received this email because you have previously subscribed to the Boomerang Books Bulletin mailing list. To unsubscribe, please click the link below: [unsubscribe link] |
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