We’re so excited to be hosting award-winning novelist Kate Forsyth on the blog for a series of contributions on books and writing. Here’s her first installment, on the art of writing. Stay tuned for more! I read a lot. I read for my own selfish pleasure, and I read for work. I read stories submitted to me by my students. I read manuscripts by aspiring writers hoping I’ll help them w... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Kate Forsyth author of The Wild Girl, Bitter Greens and many, many more… Five Facetious Questions 1. Every writer spends at least one afternoon going from bookshop to bookshop making sure his or her latest book is facing out and neatly arranged. How far have you gone to draw attention to your own books in a shop? I’ve trained every member of my family, f... Read more

The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth One of the great untold love stories – how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales – filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars. The Wild Girl tells the story of Dortchen Wild. Growing up next door to the Grimm brothers in Hesse-Cassel, a small German kingdom, Dortchen told Wilhelm some of the most powerful... Read more

We find ourselves at the halfway point of the countdown to Australia’s Favourite Novelist, as voted by you. Here’s the story so far: Don’t forget to pencil in January 25th as a big day on the calender as we celebrate the Australia Day weekend in style with the announcement of Australia’s top 10 Favourite Novelists, as well as the launch of our Australian Stories Initiati... Read more

So fairytales are pretty hot right now. If that seems like a ridiculous sentence, consider the fact that we have not one, but two “Snow White” movies set to hit the big screen this year. It seems like all of a sudden the world had gone bonkers for stories about fairytale princesses living happily ever after. I blame Kate Middleton. Still, having suffered from a pretty serious fairytale addictio... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Kate Forsyth author of Witches of Eileanan series, The Starkin Crown and now, Bitter Greens, Six Sharp Questions ——————————- 1.    Congratulations, you’ve a new book, Bitter Greens – what is it about and what does this book mean to you? My new book Bitter Greens is a retelling of the Rapunzel fairytal... Read more