This week’s Booktopia Book Trailer of the Week goes to Walter Wheat’s methmerising new cookbook book Baking Bad. Cupcakes like you’ve never seen them before. Grab a copy of Baking Bad here Baking Bad by Walter Wheat You’re hooked on Breaking Bad. You’ve got high on the escapades of Walt and Jessie. Now it’s come to an end and you’re missing your latest ... Read more

Richard Flanagan has won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for 2014 for his incredible novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. A sweeping love story set against war, in a review last year we said ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North isn’t just one of the books of the year, it is one of the finest books of the last decade.’ Read the full review here It was controversially overlooked for the M... Read more

I can be a little bitter sometimes… Around this time last year I finished Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and immediately shouted to the world “THIS WILL WIN THE MILES FRANKLIN!” I told everyone who would listen, swelling with literary priggishness, waving them away when they offered up other worthy winners. “No” I would say. “You&#... Read more

Annabel Crabb’s The Wife Drought is a featured title in Random House’s Booktoberfest Showcase, click here for more details. The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb ‘I need a wife’ It’s a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it’s not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It’s a po... Read more

For much of his life, Stephen Hawking has been a cultural icon. The brilliant mind consigned to a wheelchair, the result of his crippling battle with motor neurone disease. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time changed the way science was looked at by the world, selling more than 10 million copies and being translated into over 40 languages. Despite this, little is known of Hawking’s priv... Read more

French novelist Patrick Modiano has won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature. Modiano is the author of Missing Person and Lacombe Lucien, which was made into a film. He beat a strong field that included bookies favourite Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Belarusian investigative journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich, and Syrian poet Adonis. American autho... Read more

J.K. Rowling sent twitter into a spin last night with a series of cryptic tweets that hinted at her writing a new novel, then hinting that it might be a new Harry Potter novel, followed by millions of fans hinting that they were very very excited. It started when Rowling sent this tweet: Which led inevitably to tweets like this: We believe OMFG is an anagram for Oh My (it) Feels Good. And tweet... Read more

Jamie’s Comfort Food by Jamie Oliver Jamie’s new cookbook brings together 100 ultimate comfort food recipes from around the world. It’s all about the dishes that are close to your heart, that put a smile on your face and make you feel happy, loved, safe and secure. Inspired by everything from childhood memories to the changing of the seasons, and taking into account the guilty pleasures a... Read more

Acute Misfortune by Erik Jensen An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction. In 2008 the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. At another, ... Read more

Booktoberfest is on right now, and you’re invited, so come and celebrate with us! Booktopia’s Booktoberfest is a month-long celebration of books, authors, publishers and most importantly you, the readers! We’re running competitions, giveaways and lots of other goodies for you all October. Australia’s biggest publishers have come to the Booktoberfest party with some incre... Read more