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Ahead of the bicentenary of his birth next year, Charles Dickens was all over the papers this week thanks to a new biography Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens: A Life (Viking). Receiving equal...
Media Extra: What’s hot?
The Man Booker Prize longlist was a hot topic in the media this week. Most mentioned was Peter Carey's longlisted book Parrot and Olivier in America (Hamish Hamilton), with another...
Most mentioned: this week in Media Extra
As the nation stopped to honour our Anzac soldiers this weekend, the book world was abuzz with new Anzac titles. The most mentioned chart usually features a few war-related titles...
Media Extra: What’s hot?
As the nation stopped to honour our Anzac soldiers this weekend, the book world was abuzz with new Anzac titles. The most mentioned chart usually features a few war-related titles...
Media Extra: What’s Hot?
In So Much for That (Lionel Shriver, Fourth Estate), Shep Knacker decides to retire on a tropical island, but then his wife is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer....
Media Extra: What’s Hot?
Yann Martel, author of Booker prize-winning novel The Life of Pi (Canongate), is back with Beatrice and Virgil (Text), again about a man on a journey. The protagonist is a...
Media Extra: What’s Hot?
Michael Robotham's Bleed for Me (Sphere) took out the most mentions in Media Extra this week with five citings. Kate Howarth's Ten Hail Marys (UQP) is a local story in...
Next Week’s Media Extra Due Tueday
The next edition of Media Extra will be sent out on Tuesday 6 April 2010 due to the Easter Monday holiday.
Media Extra: What’s Hot?
The 50-year anniversary of architect Robin Boyd's first publication The Australian Ugliness (Text) has arrived, along with an anniversary edition to commemorate it. Boyd was a fierce critic of Australian...
Most mentioned: this week in ‘Media Extra’
Ian McEwan's Solar (Jonathan Cape), a 'comedy about climate change', received far and away the most mentions over the past week, but they haven't all been positive. ‘In spite of...
Dates: last WBN and Media Extra for 2008
Next week's WBN (Wednesday 10 December) will be the last for 2008. The first WBN for 2009 will be published on Wednesday 7 January.In the interim period WBN will continue...
Media Extra: What’s hot
It's been a good weekend for some of Australia's independent publishers. Scribe had the number-one most-mentioned title with David Potts' The Myth of the Great Depression. Potts considers the memory...
Meet the Literary Editors: Claire Sutherland
In the latest of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media conducted for MX by Alae Taule'alo, we meet Claire Sutherland, books editor of...
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The book media has sunk its teeth into the hoo-hah surrounding this year's Miles Franklin Award-winner, Roger McDonald. Despite a whopping seven mentions by our MX contributors, McDonald's book The...
Meet the Literary Editors: Ray Chesterton
In the third of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media, conducted for MX by Alae Taule'alo, we meet Ray Chesterton, literary editor of...
Meet the literary editors: Jason Steger
In the second of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media conducted for MX by Alae Taule'alo, we meet Jason Steger, books editor of the Age and...
Meet the literary editors: Murray Waldren
In the first of a series of interviews with the literary editors of Australia's major book media conducted for MX by Alae Taule'Alo, we meet Murray Waldren, literary editor of...
Media Extra: What’s hot
This week, all five of our Most Mentioned titles received three mentions in the weekend media, as recorded by our Media Extra contributors. We're particularly pleased to see that local...
A LETTER TO MEDIA EXTRA SUBSCRIBERS
Welcome to the first online version of Media Extra (MX) and our sincere apologies for its delay in reaching you.When we launched MX in 2004, we wanted to create an affordable...