Behold the second coming. The erotic juggernaut Fifty Shades of Grey has received the film tie-in treatment ahead of the movie’s release in February 2015. We love it. Against the wall make out sessions always trump silk ties. Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James The multi-million copy bestseller soon to be a major movie starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson... Read more

Thanks to the folks at Murdoch Books we’re giving away a dinner for two, with wines to match, at Quay, Australia’s most awarded restaurant. Quay is one of just two Australian restaurants on the prestigious S. Pellegrino World’s Top 50 Restaurants List! All you need to do to enter the draw is order a copy of Organum, the gorgeous new book from Quay’s Executive Chef Peter ... Read more

Spoil yourself… Insurgent Divergent Series : Book 2 I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, sh... Read more

Booktoberfest is over for 2014, but for some lucky folks the celebrations have only just begun! Some of our publishing partners put up some amazing prizes, before we do anything we’re giving a huge shout out to all our awesome participating publishing partners. Allen & Unwin, Bloomsbury, Bolinda, The Five Miles Press, Hachette, Hardie Grant, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Lonely Plant, Pan... Read more

And who got him out? Watch the video and find out! (PS: For a limited time, order your signed copy of Gilly’s illustrated memoir here) Adam Gilchrist The Man, The Cricketer, The Legend Going in first or seventh, wearing whites or colours, Adam Gilchrist was the most exhilarating cricketer of the modern age. This is the most complete, intimate and fascinating illustrated autobiography of ‘... Read more

The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell and Audrey Niffenegger With characters like Coraline and the Sandman to his name, Neil Gaiman is one of the best-loved authors in the world today; a creative force in comics, fiction, and the movies and TV, a serial award-winner, and a social media phenomenon whose every work is a guaranteed #1 bestseller. His passionate following of fans numbers millio... Read more

Rick Riordan’s epic bestselling series reaches its final chapter. Though the Greek and Roman crew members of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen – all of them – and they’re stronger than ever. The gods, still suffering from multiple personality disorder, are useless. How... Read more

In a bold contemporary reworking of a classic Persian epic tale , this is the story of Zal, a boy raised among birds who meets Silber, a magician who wants to pull off the greatest trick in the history of the world. Zal also falls in not-quite-love love with Asiya an anorexic Cassandra-like photographer ( and her humungously large sister Willa). As you can tell from this schematic synopsis, you... Read more

Val McDermid’s novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She chats to John Purcell about her latest novel The Skeleton Road and her amazing career. Grab a copy of The Skeleton Road here The Skeleton Road by Val McDermid When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a crumbling, gothic building in Edinburgh, Detective Chief ... Read more

Robert Dessaix knows his readers better than almost any other writer in Australia. He has met many of them personally at festivals over many years after developing an intense intimacy with them as a radio broadcaster. He has groupies who find him so captivating that I have heard them say after his public appearances than they’d like to pop him in their pocket and take him home. But Robert is no... Read more