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WHERE BOOKS ARE THE HEROES For orders over $70 postage is FREE robinsons bookshop Frankston Chadstone Greensborough City Highpoint Northland Eastland [email protected] www.robinsonsbooks.com.au Ph: 03 9783 6488 Victoria’s Oldest General Independent Bookshop Voted Victoria’s Favourite Bookshop News February Book of the Month THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL Yann Martel Happy New Year to all of our customers! We We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers hope you all enjoyed a safe and happy an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of Christmas. We were certainly very busy the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the throughout December - so we know a lot of strange treasure the journal describes. 35 years later, people received books for Christmas! a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself This month we launch our new Author In drawn into Tomás’s quest. 50 years later, Senator Residence Program - a joint initiative between Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own Robinsons and Penguin Random House. We beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma are excited to bring authors to our stores to spend some time getting research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern to know our environment, our customers and to share their knowledge Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together. and experience with our staff and customers. We would like to encourage our customers to come and meet these authors who are ABOUT THE AUTHOR just as keen to meet you as you are to meet them. Keep an eye on our Yann Martel is the author of ‘Life of Pi’, the #1 booknews, website or facebook to stay in the loop on this. international bestseller that has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, won the 2002 Man Booker, spent more Due to the hike in postage rates in January we are refreshing our than a year on international bestseller lists, and was booknews mailing list. So if you are a fan and wish to continue adapted to the screen in an Oscar-winning film by Ang receiving booknews in the mail please let us know now otherwise you Lee. Born in Spain in 1963, Yann studied philosophy at will stop receiving this wonderful publication. You can also consider the University, and travelled widely before turning to writing. enviroment and opt to receive Booknews via email. It seems the colouring craze continues. We sold almost 4,000 adult Young Adult Book of the Month colouring books in December and we are still seeing strong interest BURNING MIDNIGHT in January. If you haven’t tried it yet - why not give it a go? We also Will McIntosh saw a jump in Blind Date with a Book sales this year with over 600 Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn’t sold in December. Congratulations to all of the BDWAB Golden Ticket pay much, Alex’s stores have muscled out most of Winners! We have redeemed most tickets already - and we are the independent sellers, but it helps him and his mom waiting on a few stragglers. If you have a second chance draw ticket it make the rent. No one knows where the brilliant- is worth dropping it in to Robinsons as you may win a prize. colored spheres came from. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, Unfortunately we have been unable to come to an agreement with better-looking. The rarer the sphere, the greater the Chadstone shopping centre regarding terms for renewal of our lease improvement. When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with for Graus Comix and we are temporarily closing the Graus Comix a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start store which has been located at Chadstone since November 2013. We searching together. One day they find a Gold, a color no one has ever are actively looking for a new tenancy to relocate Graus Comix later seen. When Alex learns what they have, he will go to any lengths to take it in the year. Meanwhile all of our bookstores will boost their comic from them. The Gold is priceless, but what does it actually do? book offer to make sure we don’t let customers down. In particular our Chadstone store will stock most items previously stocked at Graus ABOUT THE AUTHOR Comix Chadstone and we encourage customers to head there for their Will McIntosh’s novel, ‘Love Minus Eighty’, was named pop culture fix. best Science Fiction novel of the year by the American Library Association. His recently published novel, And for now Defenders, has been optioned by Warner Brothers for a feature film. Will was a psychology professor for two GOOD READING! decades before turning to writing full-time. RANDOM AUTHOR RANDOM AUTHOR IN RESIDENCE IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM 2016 WITH AUTHOR GEORGE IVANOFF - FEB 11th Robinsons is building on the momentum of Random Author Day launched in February 2015. This year we are extending the program to host @ HIGHPOINT 9:30am-10:30am authors in residence. This means authors will spend more time in the @ NORTHLAND 11:30am-1pm store getting to know our bookselling world and our staff and customers. @ FRANKSTON 2:30pm-4:30pm If you’ve ever wanted to sit and talk to a published author about their stories, what they do, how they do it, what inspires them etc, then George Ivanoff is an author and stay-at-home dad residing in Melbourne. He this is the opportunity to do it. Working with Penguin Random House, has written over 90 books for children, including the RFDS Robinsons has developed an ‘Author in Residence Program’. adventures, the You Choose series and the Gamers trilogy. During their time in our stores, authors will learn about the bookstore As a kid, George loved reading interactive books, where he environment, with a hands on focus on the sections they write. It is an got to make decisions about the direction of the story. He exchange of information between authors, booksellers and readers that has had more fun plotting and writing the You we hope will benefit all. Thank you to Penguin Random House and their Choose books than pretty much anything authors for this continued support of Robinsons Bookshop. else, and writing the RFDS adventures has opened his eyes to the amazing working An Einstein Project Initiative. done by the Royal Flying Doctor Service. George’s new books for kids centre on the RFDS, are released this month through Random Penguin House.
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