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Diverse choices popular for summer reading

Posted on December 26, 2009, 9:09am and updated on December 29, 2009 at 2:30 pm

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A broad range of fiction and non-fiction novels, biographies, children’s stories and cookbooks have been popular choices for summer reading this year.

According to Angus and Robertson managing supervisor Lee-Anne Alexander, there was rarely a standout bestseller.

“Everything on display at the store front is doing really well and people have taken to the true crime biographies, like Mick Gatto and Roberta Williams,” Ms Alexander said.

“In the wake of New Moon’s movie release, the Twilight saga books — actually most vampire-fantasy books — are selling fast.”

Ms Alexander said the same was true of children’s book Where The Wild Things Are, which had also just hit the big screen, and the Diary Of A Wimpy Kid series.

“Bart Cummings isn’t doing too badly and The Kitchen Garden Companion has been the best-selling cookbook, alongside Masterchef,” she said.

“It’s really good to see such a mixture of popular books covering all ages, male and female.”

Ms Alexander said the store had been flat out in the lead-up to Christmas, its ABC centre CD and DVD selection also proving a favourite among shoppers to sell strongly across the board.

Mount Gambier’s Book City has reported the same variation in popularity.

Staff have seen local interest soar with Pieter Zaadstra’s new book Mount Gambier And SA In Art alongside the well-loved cookbooks, vampirism and real crime novels.

  • Picture: The Kitchen Garden Companion has been selling like hotcakes, along with Masterchef cookbooks, children’s book Where The Wild Things Are and anything about vampires or the Melbourne underworld, according to Angus and Robertson bookstore supervisor Lee-Anne Alexander (left) and book seller Axelle Ruwoldt.
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