A couple of awards that weren’t announced at Friday night’s ABIA Awards were the ABIA & Booktopia People’s Choice Awards. We asked you to vote for your favourite fiction and children’s books, and we received a huge response. Thanks to everyone who voted! After thousands of votes cast, we’re proud to announce the winners of the inaugural ABIA & Booktopia Peo... Read more

We are so proud to announce that Booktopia was awarded Best Online Retailer at the 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney on Friday night. The award served to recognise ‘the retailer that best demonstrated excellence and innovation in the marketplace and that supported the local industry’. In a evening dedicated to celebrating the Australian Book Industry, Graeme Simsion’s c... Read more

It seems Kevin Powers’ acclaimed novel The Yellow Birds has found even more fans in Hollywood, with Benedict Cumberbatch set to star in the film adaptation helmed by director David Lowery. “I never had any interest in making a war film until Jeff and Evan (Story Mining pictures) brought me the novel by Kevin Powers,” said Lowery. “And perhaps I still don’t, because... Read more

Looking for things to see at The Sydney Writer’s Festival? Come along and hear some experts from Booktopia chat about the wonderful world of books… Read more

John Purcell’s review of Tara’s new book, The Fictional Woman: I am reading this book now. It is much more than a memoir, Tara takes on the many issues facing women today. From equality in the workplace to motherhood, from the place of advertising in our lives today to the way we tell each other stories, this is a book which needs to be read by men and women. Well written, clearly a... Read more

Tara Moss has always been a great friend to Booktopia, so for her latest visit we wanted to do something for her. Taking inspiration from her first work of non-fiction The Fictional Woman, Tara and Booktopia’s John Purcell discussed the labels that dominate all of our lives, and in the vein of the amazing cover for The Fictional Woman, Tara drew John’s labels on him for all to see. ... Read more

Ahead of his Australian tour in May 2014 comes a heartfelt, hilarious, and often filthy memoir from raunchy comedian and beloved TV star, Bob Saget. Although best-known for his family-friendly role on the hit TV show Full House, Bob Saget is equally adored by fans for his lewd stand-up routines and his outrageously profane, scene-stealing cameos in The Aristocrats and Entourage. Now, in his pub... Read more

Delicious Days in Paris by Jane Paech Romantic, mouth-watering Paris – where do you start? Let food-lover and Paris expert Jane Paech show you around the city’s mille-feuille of history and culture, with its tempting pastry and chocolate shops on every corner. You’ll visit both legendary and little-known cafés, restaurants and pâtisseries of Paris, and see museums, art galleries, ga... Read more

Tiddas by Anita Heiss A story about what it means to be a friend … Five women, best friends for decades, meet once a month to talk about books … and life, love and the jagged bits in between. Dissecting each other’s lives seems the most natural thing in the world – and honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, don’t they? But each woman ... Read more

I’m so excited to be releasing the second book in my Bunyip Bay series, Outback Blaze. As the title suggests, the book involves a fire and although the fire and the story that accompanies it are fictional, this book was in part inspired by a real-life event. In 2009, my husband and I lived in Kojonup (a small but vibrant community in South Western Australia). My husband was the manager of the s... Read more