Young Master Richard is currently in Melbourne, swanning about with many famous authors at the Melbourne Writers Festival. These authors include China Mieville and Margo Lanagan! The rest of us remain in Hobart, being very jealous.

In other news, we are talking pre-orders for a number of titles, some of which you will be very excited about, and some of which will make you feel a little bit ill.

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol - Pre-Order for $29.95 (RRP $49.95)
Matthew Reilly's Five Ancient Warriors - Pre-Order for $29.95 (RRP $49.95)
Dave Eggers' The Wild Things - Pre-Order a regular edition for $35.00 or..

see us in-store for exciting alternatives!

and last of all (some of you may do a little uncontrollable squeal)

Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm (Part 1 of 3) Pre-Order for 24.95 (RRP $35.00)

We have finally gone Penguin mad!

Notebooks!

Pencils!

Mugs!

Deckchairs are also available, but are mostly impractical for two reasons:

1. It's still winter.
2. There isn't any space to store said deckchairs. Sigh.

2009 Hugo Awards Winner accounced..

The full list can be found here: http://twitter.com/thehugoawards as a direct link from Twitter updates.

Also, we recommend fellow twitter users to follow http://twitter.com/neilhimself and see him swear in excitement.