Chip Le Grand’s gripping account of the Essendon drug saga, The Straight Dope, has won the Walkley Book Award at last night’s Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism after also winning the inaugural William Hill Australian Sports Book of The Year. Le Grand, a senior writer with The Australian, was praised for his meticulous account of the ASADA drug scandal that gripped Australi... Read more

One of Australia’s most loved authors, Judy Nunn, came to Booktopia HQ to sign copies of her new book Spirits of the Ghan! Judy signed A LOT of copies, but as she’s also one of Australia’s bestselling authors make sure you place your order now to secure your signed copy!   Grab your signed copy of Spirits of the Ghan here! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com... Read more

You may hear that Taylor Swift stays out too late, has nothing in her brain, or that she goes on too many dates and can’t make them stay. But that’s just what people say. What is more important (and a fact) is that she will be partnering with Scholastic in donating 25,000 books to New York City-based schools in 2016, in support of the Open a World of Possible initiative. Twenty-five... Read more

We’re kind of obsessed with PJ Harvey in the Booktopia office, so it doesn’t take much to make us spread the good word of PJ. But wowee, do we have big news… We have an Australian Exclusive. The only signed copies of The Hollow of the Hand, PJ Harvey’s beautiful collaboration with artist Seamus Murphy! Step One: Listen to these tasty licks. Step Two: Order your signed co... Read more

Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes, an investigation into autism, has won the 2015 Samuel Johnson prize, with judges praising it for ‘injecting a hopeful note into a conversation that’s normally dominated by despair’. Following on from his groundbreaking article The Geek Syndrome, Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians... Read more

Oscar-nominated acting great Gary Oldman and his longtime collaborator Douglas Urbanski have signed a book deal to publish a novel about Vampire Cowboys. Let that sink in. The book will be entitled Blood Riders, and it’s going to be amazing. And possibly ridiculous. Amiculous. It’s going to be Amiculous. Oldman and Urbanski gave this joint statement in the press release: “We have al... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Marlee Jane Ward author of Welcome To Orphancorp Six Sharp Questions ____________ 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales, went to university in Wollongong and spent a good number of years in Sydney. Now I’m based in Melbourne and I like it bes... Read more

Marlon James has become the first Jamaican author to win the coveted Man Booker Prize with his incredible novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. James says ‘The Booker is that thing you hear about, and it just shapes your writing. This is so surreal. I feel like I’m going to wake... Read more

A GIF demonstration of the 10 Stages of Realising Booktopia is Giving Away a Year’s Worth of Books this Booktoberfest… 1. Denial Well that can’t be true, what an embarrassing typo. 2. Contemplation Maybe it wasn’t a typo? 3. Excitement OMG it’s true. 4. Rabid Excitement OMFG IT’S TRUE! 5. Maths How much is a year’s worth of books? 6. Doubt I often read ... Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTBj7e4k80 Grab your copy of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies here Pride And Prejudice And Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.’ So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes ... Read more