Booklovers know it, and it appears the rest of the world is starting to catch on. A bookish job is a great job! The “aura of prestige” connected with a career in writing or academia is preferable to jobs that brought promises of wealth and celebrity status, according to a survey conducted by UK market research firm Yougov with more than 14,000 respondents. Being an author was the most popular c... Read more

The cinematic experience that is Fifty Shades of Grey: The Motion Picture continues to smash box office records worldwide. Fifty Shades of Grey made more than $80 million over the weekend in the US and $248.7 globally, making it the biggest Presidents Day weekend opener ever and the third-biggest R-rated premiere in box office history Fifty Shades’ opening weekend audience in the US was e... Read more

Mr. Grey will see you now… Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James The multi-million copy bestseller, now a major movie starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, Fifty Shades of Grey is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful e... Read more

The longlist for the 2015 Stella Prize has just been announced, and what an exciting list of Australian authors! Named after one of Australia’s most important female authors, Stella Maria Miles Franklin, The Stella Prize celebrates Australian women’s contribution to literature, awarded last year to Clare Wright for The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka. Don’t miss the chance to grab a copy of th... Read more

1. Gourmet recipes from world famous chefs don’t need to hurt your head The recipes in White Heat were simple, and that’s one of the most revolutionary things about the book. Before White Heat, chefs seemed to compete with each other about who had the most inaccessible recipes. Marco Pierre White, perhaps due to his cockiness, didn’t care about that, he just wanted to share hi... Read more

Recently we gave Bryce Courtenay fans the chance to win a First Edition pack signed by the late great author. The pack included 9 limited edition bookmarks and a signed First Edition of his books Jessica, Sylvia and Fortune Cookie. All you had to do to enter was buy a copy of The Silver Moon…   …and the winner is: I.Stojkovski, Calamvale, QLD Congratulations to the winner! Not ... Read more

Earlier this week The New Yorker produced a short film about Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan, focusing on his ‘writing shack’ on Bruny Island. It’s a beautiful piece, full of vintage musings on life, happiness and the writer’s life. We also get a glimpse into the award-winning author’s writing room: a modest, empty desk with a laptop, a lamp and a couple o... Read more

We don’t like cricket. No. We love it. And it seems plenty of Booktopians do as well. We had a huge response to a couple of big competitions we’ve been running to celebrate the summer of cricket. A beautiful limited edition of Adam Gilchrist’s memoir and a brand spanking new Kaboom cricket bat signed by Australia’s master blaster David Warner! But the big question is, ar... Read more

In perhaps the biggest literary news of the 21st century, To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has announced she will be releasing a sequel to her seminal debut in 2015. “It’s a pretty decent effort,” she said of her soon to be released second novel, 55 years in the making, entitled Go Set a Watchman. According to Harper, Go Set a Watchman is set roughly 20 years after To Kill a Mockingbird ... Read more

The first trailer for J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy has arrived, offering a dark glimpse into the small imaginary English town of Pagford. Everyone’s got skeletons rattling in their cupboards… Grab a copy of J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy here The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.... Read more