Friday Stuff and Items

The Bumper Book Trailer Edition

1) It seems that HarperCollins UK have made the World's Longest Domino Rally with Children's Books. This is a noble and worthy endeavour.*



It also seems that HarperCollins UK is staffed entirely by cute and funny boys. Maybe The House of Onion and HarperCollins could, you know, like, hang out sometime.

2) While we're flirting with talking about HarperCollins, here is the book trailer they produced for Lord Sunday. It's kind of hard-edged and steampunky. Cool.



3) In order to stop ourselves from making eyes at HarperCollins, we shall turn our gaze to the Mothership. Look at this atmospheric trailer for Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey**





4) What's that you say? You want another view of the mountains. Ok, very well then...






* Perhaps we could attempt the World's Longest Domino Rally with Cake. Might get messy. Biscuits? Biscuits shaped and decorated to look like dominoes? Biscuits shaped and decorated to look like books? Now we're cooking.
**That's the Miles Franklin Short-listed Jasper Jones, you know. *modest cough*

Wonders of a Godless World

This just in from The Mothership:




Isn't it beautiful? It has such a strong mood and it's very intriguing. We are all intrigued.

The animation is by James Gulliver Hancock, who also designed the gorgeous book jacket and composed the music in the clip. Clever fellow.

Wonders of A Godless World by Andrew McGahan is out in the world in October.
And well... would you look at that... October is tomorrow! Hurrah!

Good work, Sydney Onions!

I will tell you the truth. Trust me. - Liar!

We are so excited that Justine Larbalestier's brilliant new book Liar has almost hit the shelves. We've had so many lies to keep track of, and keep under our hats, so as soon as October rolls around, finally we'll be able to talk about them outside the House. Hooray!

And oh my, aren't we proud of our Bruno and his genius cover. It shouts to be picked up. It makes you want to run your hands over it, to caress that pooling blood (or is that just us and our fetish for embossing and spot gloss?).

We warn you, though, Liar is incredibly addictive. Once you pick it up and start reading, we suspect you'll find it pretty tricky to stop turning those pages.

We are also tickled pink that it's been attracting some very pleasing attention out in the world.*

Over here, the fabulous Lou Swinn & Zoe Dattner of Sleepers Publishing discuss it on their Twenty-first Century Bookshow - a terrifically refreshing, friendly and warm approach to talking about books. Pop on over and check out what they've been reading and recommending.

And look! We haz a trailer!

Oh, hello New York City. Colour us wanting to visit you immediately. If only there were some kind of portal linking Melbourne to NYC? Some kind of Magic door perhaps? Or would that be Madness?

*Okay, so some of the attention the original US cover attracted recently was not of the pleasing variety, but the outcome was. If you didn't see it splashed all over the internets at the time, you can catch up on the cover issue and the very interesting debate it sparked via the Publisher's Weekly articles and Justine's blog posts pre- and post- the decision to change the US jacket.