I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to interview the author of Freeing Grace (see my rave review), by her publishers in New Zealand, Allen...
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HANDWRITTEN RECORDS OF 18TH CENTURY LONDON ONLINE
Historians, rejoice. Forty million words of petition, accusation, and complaint - have been posted online, giving unrivaled access to the underground...
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NZ POST NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, June 28, 2010 | 4:18 PM
Random House (NZ) authors Owen Marshall (Living As A Moon) and Fiona Farrell (Limestone), are two of the three fiction finalists in this year’s...
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Winning children's books
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 1:39 PM
Neil Gaiman's Newbery-winning The Graveyard Book has won the UK's prestigious Carnegie Medal. The equally illustrious Kate Greenaway Medal...
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ONE BOOK-ONE STORY WRITERS
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Sunday, June 20, 2010 | 3:44 PM
For those who don't know it, it is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of America's greatest novels, To Kill a Mocking Bird.In Reno, Nevada,...
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Changes at the top in Penguin NZ
Publishing director of Penguin NZ quits job.One of New Zealand publishing's leading figures, Penguin's publishing director Geoff Walker, has quit after...
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MOST RESERVED BOOKS
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, June 18, 2010 | 1:55 PM
Not so long ago, I tinkered with the idea that listing the most popular holds in public libraries was as good an indicator of bestsellers as the bestseller...
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SLUSH PILE HELL
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, June 17, 2010 | 1:48 PM
So long ago, I can't even find it, I posted hints about how to write a query letter to an agent. Now, courtesy of Jason Boog at GalleyCat at mediabistro.com,...
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CRIME IS IN THE AIR
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 | 2:18 PM
Suddenly, it seems, there is an insatiable demand for crime fiction. Jason Boog, on GalleyCat, announces today that Little, Brown, is launching...
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And the winner is ... a new crime fiction writer
On Graham Beattie's book blog today:The winner of the inaugural NZSA/Pindar Publishing Prize announcement‘Judging the inaugural NZSA/Pindar Prize for...
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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, by Stephenie Meyer
Amanda Craig, children's book reviewer for The Times, and first British reviewer of the first of the "Twilight" series, which has sold 6.8 million copies...
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OLIVE KITTERIDGE
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, June 14, 2010 | 7:48 PM
My good friend Roberta (Canoes of Kupe) McIntyre and I were talking book groups, and the book her group is reading at the moment sounded so intriguing...
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TYPE ONTO YOUR COMPUTER WITH A TYPEWRITER
Yes, it is the human interest story for the day: you can now connect an oldfashioned typewriter to your computer for a mere five hundred bucks.GalleyCat...
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JG BALLARD ARCHIVE ACQUIRED BY NATION
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, June 11, 2010 | 4:21 PM
Ballard papers saved for posterityThrough a legality I had never heard of before -- the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme -- a large archive of manuscripts,...
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Barbara Kingsolver Wins £30,000 Orange Prize
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | 4:20 PM
Barbara Kingsolver Wins £30,000 Orange PrizeNovelist Barbara Kingsolver (pictured) has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna, nudging out the...
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NANCY DAWSON'S HORNPIPE
Little Nancy DawsonHaul 'em away!Got her flannel drawers onHaul 'em away!Says our poor old bo'sunHaul 'em away!And a holly heigh ho!Haul 'em away!Thus...
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BOOK WEEK IN ISRAEL, WITH MARGARET ATWOOD
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, June 5, 2010 | 2:46 PM
A special edition of Haaretz, to mark Israel's book week.Margaret Atwood contributed a beautifully written, deeply emotional article to the newspaper...
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SECRET DOCUMENTS TO GO ONLINE
Millions of secret messages stored at the World War II code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, are to be made available online.Simon Greenish, CEO of the...
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THE BATTLE OF THE BUTTONS
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Thursday, June 3, 2010 | 4:02 PM
Those of you who buy from the online bookstore amazon -- which I guess includes you all -- have probably scarcely noticed the "Add to Cart" or "Add to...
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FIRST EDITION COLLECTION TO BE SOLD
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 | 3:20 PM
Well, it seems it is Christmas Carol remembrance moment. According to the BBC, a first edition of the story, complete with an inscription by...
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
June is here, and down in New Zealand, where a wintry blast of rain has predominated for the last eleven days, it feels like a mid-year Christmas -- which...
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A SKYPE IDEA
Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | 4:08 PM
According to the latest bulletin of the Authors Guild, the computer phone SKYPE is the gadget du jour for publicizing books. Needing just...
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RACING THE ALPHABET
Crime and mystery writer Sue Grafton started off the alphabet with A is for Alibi in 1982, and since then has worked her way up to U, with ever-increasing...
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