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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 March Book of the Month SIX FOUR Hideo Yokoyama Read the Japanese crime sensation that sold a million In March we celebrate For Dummies month. The range has been copies in six days! The nightmare no parent could evolving recently with many titles focused on coding for adults and for endure, the case no detective could solve, and the twist kids. There is a For Dummies title to suit everyone - whatever your no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, secret passion or hobby. Purchase a For Dummies book during the the parents of a 7 year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and month of March, and go into the draw to win a For Dummies Hamper. listened to the demands of their daughter’s kidnapper. The hamper includes five For Dummies They would never learn his identity.They would never books of your choice and other fun see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that merchandise! See instore or our website followed, the Japanese public listened to the police’s for more details. apologies. They would never forget the botched investigation that became known as Six Four. They would never forgive the authorities their failure. For one week in late 2002, the press officer attached to the police department in We have stocked up on Easter titles for question confronted an anomaly in the case. He could never imagine what he you to share with the little ones. Snuggle would uncover. He would never have looked if he’d known what he’d find. up together with an Easter themed story. We have a great range to choose ABOUT THE AUTHOR from. Hideo Yokoyama worked for 12 years as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo, before becoming one of Japan’s most acclaimed fiction writers. His exhaustive and relentless work ethic is known to This month we continue with our mirror the intense and obsessive behaviour of his characters. Six Four is his Random Author in Residence sixth novel, and his first to be published in the English language. Program. A big thank you to George Ivanoff for his visit last month. If you want to talk books and writing with an author - make Young Adult Book of the Month you way to a Robinsons store hosting one of the amazing REBEL OF THE SANDS authors from Penguin Random Alwyn Hamilton House. This month’s author’s are The first in a trilogy packed with shooting contests, Jacqueline Harvey and Tristan train robberies, festivals under the stars, powerful Bancks. They will happily discuss any topic with you and look forward Djinni magic and an electrifying love story. Dustwalk is to meeting you. Amani’s home. The desert sand is in her bones. But she wants to escape. More than a want. A need. Then a foreigner with no name turns up to save her life, and March is also the month we with him the chance to run. But to where? The desert celebrate Dr Seuss. This year plains are full of danger. Sand and blood are swirling, would have been Dr Seuss’ 112 and the Sultan’s enemies are on the rise. birthday. There are so many titles to choose from and two newly ABOUT THE AUTHOR discovered! Alwyn Hamilton was born in Toronto and spent her early years bouncing between Europe and Canada And for now until her parents settled in France. She left France for Cambridge University to study History of Art at GOOD READING! King’s College, focusing in on painting in the French Revolution. She then moved to London where she now lives and put her degree to use working for an auction house. Rebel of The Sands is her first novel. RANDOM AUTHOR RANDOM AUTHOR IN RESIDENCE IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM 2016 WITH AUTHOR’S JACQUELINE HARVEY & Robinsons is building on the momentum of Random Author Day launched TRISTAN BANCKS - MARCH 4th in February 2015. This year we are extending the program to host authors in residence. This means authors will spend more time in the @ HIGHPOINT 10:45am-11:30am store getting to know our bookselling world and our staff and customers. @ NORTHLAND 12:30am-1:30pm If you’ve ever wanted to sit and talk to a published author about their Jacqueline Harvey knew she wanted to be an author at a stories, what they do, how they do it, what inspires them etc, then young age. Her bestselling Alice-Miranda series began as an this is the opportunity to do it. Working with Penguin Random House, idea for a picture book, but it soon became apparent that this Robinsons has developed an ‘Author in Residence Program’. perpetually positive seven-and-a-quarter-year-old had a lot more to say. Jacqueline Harvey has just released the 13th During their time in our stores, authors will learn about the bookstore book in her bestselling Alice-Miranda series, ‘Alice-Miranda environment, with a hands on focus on the sections they write. It is an to the Rescue’. exchange of information between authors, booksellers and readers that we hope will benefit all. Thank you to Penguin Random House and their Tristan Bancks is a children’s and teen authors for this continued support of Robinsons Bookshop. author with a background in acting and filmmaking. His book ‘Two Wolves’ won the An Einstein Project Initiative. Honour Book in the 2015 Children’s book Council Awards. His latest series ‘My Life and Other Mistakes’ is full of weird and funny semi-autobiographical short shories.

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