Janella Purcell lives the life we all want to lead. Healthy, happy and full of food! She made a special trip from the Mid-North Coast to Booktopia to sign some copies of her bestselling new book Janella’s Super Natural Foods and teach our Incompetent Cook a thing or two about the most important meal of the day, Breakfast! Janella is all about making food that is healthy AND easy, with ove... Read more

2014 will be remembered as the year Australian Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. We’re sure you’ll all recall that Narrow Road featured in our Best Books of 2013 list, along with Pulitzer Prize winning The Goldfinch and Stella Prize winning The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, so we feel very confident proclaiming that somewhere in this list... Read more

We wanted to give you a glimpse inside the genius that is Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul! But first, a big congrats to the winners of our Diary of a Wimpy Kid Facebook Competition winners. They are: Lynn Donges, Kristen Gislason Callow, Nicole Campbell, Nat Langfeldt, Lily Cunningham! Winners, please email us at promos@booktopia.com.au with your details! Check out some pages of the mega be... Read more

Santa may not be great at giving books (the coal always seems to smudge) but you have to admire his efficient delivery. Unfortunately we don’t have magical reindeer to help us deliver presents this Christmas. We have Australia Post who, while being absolutely wonderful, do get incredibly busy this time of year. So, if you’re ordering for Christmas, we strongly recommend placing your... Read more

Richard Flanagan continued his award winning efforts as he was announced co-winner of the Fiction Award ay the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards last night. Flanagan promptly announced he would would donating his $40,000 winning to the Indigenous Literacy Fund, while winner of the Children’s Fiction Award Bob Graham said he would be giving $10,000 to the Asylum Seeker Resource C... Read more

As if you needed more reasons to buy your gifts from Booktopia (in stock titles need to be order by December 10 for delivery in time for Christmas), we decided to explore the heady world of Mall Santa. You see, Mall Santa comes much earlier than his boss Santa Claus. He arrives at a shopping centre near your house. He brings his elves, who look alarmingly like disinterested high school dropouts... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Janella Purcell author of Janella’s Super Natural Foods Ten Terrifying Questions ____________ 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? Born, raised and schooled in Brisbane. Moved to Sydney permanently at 23, after many years back and forth. I was desperate to get to Sydney from about age... Read more

Out on the patio… we’d sit, And the humidity… we’d breathe Read about a man getting… bashed by a prawn, Laugh and think… this is Australia. We’ve been scrambling to keep this hilarious piece of Australiana in stock, with thousands of copies already on their way to eager men, women and crocs around the country. Order your copy today. Let’s put our ... Read more

THE Masterchef, Julie Goodwin, has a new book out that the whole family will love. It’s called 20/20 Meals, short for $20 meals in less than 20 minutes. Sounds good already doesn’t it? Julie dropped by Booktopia HQ to teach The Incompetent Chef a thing or two from her book, in particular the fancied Beef Tacos, all made from scratch in less than 20 minutes, and for considerably less... Read more

Booksellers around the world all said the same thing. A kids book with no pictures? That won’t take off. And then this happened… Suddenly it exploded. The Book with No Pictures was proclaimed the must have book for 2014, the surprise hit. So do yourself a favour, and… BLORK Well, you get the idea… Grab a copy of The Book with no Pictures here The Book With No Pictures by... Read more