It’s time for a twitter wrap from our favourite eccentric genius, Stephen King! Over to you Stephano… I am going to order that novel, EENY MEENIE. — Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 8, 2015 For more about Eeny Meeny click here Dennis Lehane’s WORLD GONE BY is the best gangster novel since THE GODFATHER. Terrific story, shattering conclusion. — Stephen King (@StephenKing) June ... Read more

She’s Japan’s highest selling author outside of Murakami, and now Marie Kondo wants to help Australians to tidy up! Forget everything you’ve been taught about decluttering. Japanese tidiness expert Marie Kondo has tips that will transform your home from unmanageable mess to ordered haven. Marie Kondo argues that if you tidy your home properly now, you’ll never need to declutter agai... Read more

The release of Go Set a Watchman next week is already shaping as the literary event of the century. The sequel (or ‘parent’ as Harper Lee calls it) to her seminal 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, exploring racial injustice in the American Deep South, will demand a two million copy initial print run in the US, numbers which have never been seen before. The release of the novel hasn&... Read more

Voracious reader and office loudmouth Andrew Cattanach lifts the lid on his favourite books of the year, so far! Quicksand by Steve Toltz I had my doubts about Steve Toltz even attempting to write a follow up to A Fraction of the Whole. Not only did he write it, he might have a Miles Franklin winner on his hands. Savagely witty and chaotically brilliant. Aldo has been so relentlessly unlucky – ... Read more

This is Ronson at his finest. Funny, intriguing and, in some places, downright shocking. Read more

Sofie Laguna’s acclaimed novel The Eye of the Sheep has won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Laguna beat four other authors — Sonya Hartnett, Joan London, Christine Piper and Craig Sherborne— to take home the $60,000 prize, presented each year to a novel which “presents Australian life in any of its phases”. 2015 is the second straight year where heavy favourites where ... Read more

Whenever a new film adaptation of a classic novel is released, you can hear readers’ whispers on the wind. Please, please please please, let it be good… But according to critics, Far from the Madding Crowd isn’t good. It’s great. Starring the incredible Carey Mulligan and directed by Thomas Vinterberg from a screenplay by David Nicholls (yes, that David Nicholls) the lat... Read more

Do you love John Green novels? Do you love sweeping films about first loves and losses? Do you love rubbing shoulders with celebrities? Are you feeling lucky, punk? After the runaway success of the film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars another of his novels, Paper Towns, is about the hit the big screen. To celebrate this, we have 2 double passes to the Australian Premiere... Read more

Let me tell you about a little book called Grey. You see, Grey is E.L. James’ long awaited follow up to her Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, which has sold over 100 million copies to date. A few weeks ago, James dropped a bombshell on the book industry with news that Grey would be published on Christian Grey’s birthday, June 18th. We ordered a truckload of copies, a record-breaking amo... Read more

Booktopia’s John Purcell finally sat down to write a review about the book he’s been talking about all year, The Other Side of the World. The Other Side of the World is a very, very good book. Let that statement stand there a bit and I will start from the beginning. It may seem strange to say but I started reading The Other Side of the World on the day it was handed to me because it... Read more