The Grand Hotel

01 07 2010- Emma

We're very excited about it here, and are stocking brand spanking new copies, still warm off the press and Gregory spent a happy while signing them all for you as well!

They will of course be available at a reasonable Barwon Booksellers' rate of $30 for the trade paperback. 

The coming weeks will be seeing lots of publicity and reviews for The Grand Hotel, and we will provide links as they come, but just to give you a bit of a taste, here's a recent interview with Gregory:

Australian Book Review, July 10, Jorgensen review of The Grand Hotel

Gregory Day answers Ten Terrifying Questions at Booktopia

Reading group questions for The Grand Hotel - put together by Random House

1. It has been suggested that a major theme of The Grand Hotel is the fine line between laughter and tears. Do you agree?

2. In what other ways, and to what ends, is humour employed in the novel?

3. How does Noel’s belief that time is music get played out in the story?

4. What role is played by the dancing brolga that Noel spies in the clearing near the start of the book?

5. Can you name some significant parallels or connections between The Grand Hotel of the past and present? For instance, is there any possible relationship between The Dancing Brolga Ale in the reawakened Grand and The Native Companion Ale in the original one?