Our annual vote to discover Australia’s Favourite Author is here again! Over 100,000 Australians had their say last year, and this year will be even bigger! It’s your chance to champion your favourite Australian authors and vote them through to next week’s final round of voting. You can vote for as many authors as you like, with the poll closing at midnight tonight. Remember, ... Read more

Nominations for Australia’s Favourite Author are now open! The poll that stops the nation is back! We’re asking you to tell us your favourite Australia Author! Novelists, picture book authors, historians, biographers, all authors are now all open for nomination! You see, January at Booktopia is the month of Australian Stories, an entire month dedicated to celebrating books by Austra... Read more

With 2015 about to come to a close, and our Booktopia Books of the Year already announced, it’s time to present our Top 50 Bestselling Books of 2015. How many have you read? 50. SPECIAL DELIVERY by Annabel Crabb In Special Delivery, Annabel has teamed up with her best friend from childhood, fellow food tragic and Kitchen Cabinet recipe consultant Wendy Sharpe, to bring you recipes for tho... Read more

One of our favourite books of 2015 was Carrie Brownstein’s memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, a funny and self depreciating meditation about growing up as one of the most influential figures on the punk rock landscape in the US. Brownstein beautifully captures what it feels like to be known and adored by an entire subculture as lead guitarist of acclaimed band Sleater-Kinney, before sh... Read more

We gaze into our crystal ball and make five bookish predictions for 2016… ——————————————– 1. George R.R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter will be released before season 6 of Game of Thrones ends It’s been the burning question since the TV series began, but in 2016 fans of Martin’s Song ... Read more

Because there is no more satisfying phrase in the English language than ‘the book is better’… Whiskey Tango Foxtrot based on… The Taliban Shuffle by Kim Barker A true-life Catch-22 set in the war-torn countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region’s longest-serving correspondents. Kim Barker is not your typical, impassive foreign correspondent – ... Read more

We chat to some of the big winners at last night’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Darleen Bungey, Claire Zorn and Ross Coulthart, about the writing life and their favourite books of 2015. Enjoy! How do you get started writing each morning? Darleen Bungey (winner of the Best Non-Fiction award for John Olsen: An Artist’s Life): Getting started means going straight to the desk ̵... Read more

Joan London, Ross Coulthart and Clare Zorn were among the winners at last night’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in Sydney last night. London took out the prize for best fiction for her novel The Golden Age, telling the story of a Hungarian refugee living in Australia who finds forbidden love while being treated for polio in a Perth hospital. The judges praised the book as “... Read more

If a project contains the creative forces of Roald Dahl, Disney and Steven Spielberg, it’s going to be pretty spectacular. The long talked about live action adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved book The BFG won’t be here until July 2016, but we have the very first trailer to enjoy! Starring Mark Rylance, who played Thomas Cromwell in the TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wo... Read more

This week on our Facebook page we’re giving away a pretty damn amazing prize, with the help of our buddies at Random House Australia. We’re giving away an amazing Christmas Prize Pack, over 80 books to keep you reading through Christmas and way, way beyond! The pack contains the following books: The Shepherd’s Crown, Napoleon’s Last Island, The Boy At The Top Of The Moun... Read more