August was Kids Month at Booktopia, and to celebrate we ran a colouring in competition, thanks to our friends at Random House Australia. We received so many entries, the response was amazing! Thanks to everyone who entered and every child for their hard work and beautiful colouring in. . Of course, the hardest part is picking a winner. Taking into account skill, age and all-round creativity, we... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Anna Romer author of Thornwood House Ten Terrifying Questions ———————— 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in Sydney, and spent much of my childhood in the gorgeous little village of Sawtell on the NSW north coast. I grew up in Que... Read more

The wait is over. Australia’s First Female Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be publishing a memoir, out in 2014. Nikki Christer, Random House Australia Publishing Director, said she was both delighted and honoured to be publishing the memoir of Australia’s first female Prime Minister. There is much in Julia Gillard’s life and parliamentary legacy to be admired and debated. In any reckoni... Read more

This September we’ve been running Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. To celebrate, we’ve asked some of our favourite Australian authors to give us Five Books Every Man Should Read. Today’s guest is Hannah Richell, author of the award-winning Secrets of The Tides and The Shadow Year. Hannah, take it away… The Stand by Stephen King No man should be allowed to reach adulthood ... Read more

Click here to buy Coal Creek from Booktopia, Australia’s Local Bookstore Coal Creek by Alex Miller Me and Ben had been mates since we was boys and if it come to it I knew I would have to be on his side.’ Bobby Blue is caught between loyalty to his only friend, Ben Tobin, and his boss, Daniel Collins, the new Constable at Mount Hay. ‘Ben was not a big man but he was strong and ... Read more

This September we’ve been running Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. To celebrate, we’ve asked some of our favourite Australian authors to give us Five Books Every Man Should Read. Today’s guest is the one of Australia’s most exciting new writers and author of the exquisite Past The Shallows, Favel Parrett. Favel, take it away… The Road by Cormac McCarthy McCarthy is ... Read more

Steve Jobs had told Google that if it included multitouch on its phones, he would sue, and true to his word he sued the Nexus One maker, HTC, a month later in Delaware Federal District Court. More noticeably, he began seeking out public opportunities to attack Google and Android. A month after the Nexus One was released – and days after Jobs announced the first iPad – he tore into G... Read more

Paper To Petal by Rebecca Thuss & Patrick Farrell Foreword by Martha Stewart An inspiring book featuring 75 unique and captivating paper flowers. Filled with beautiful photography, this book will feature simple accessible ideas, over-the-top aspirational ideas, and everything in between. The book begins with a lush gallery of images of the flowers, including a flower inspired by a Dr. Seuss... Read more

It is with deep sorrow that we share the sad news that Christopher Koch passed away peacefully in the early hours of this morning near his home in Tasmania. A leading Australian literary novelist, Christopher Koch was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature in 1995 and was twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award for fiction. Born and educated in ... Read more

In Australian cuisine, they don’t come much bigger than Serge Dansereau. Dansereau started work in Sydney at The Regent in 1983, spending 18 years there while shooting their flagship restaurant to three-hat fame. Serge encouraged a greater knowledge of what we can produce in Australia and worked hard to get it from paddock to plate. In 1998 Dansereau was approached to head up the kitchen ... Read more