"...a fitting tribute to one man's extraordinary resilience." (The Guardian) and "A Screen Triumph!..." (Deadline)... Read more

The books I read during this month were chosen with an intentional theme... Read more

In his 1994 A Shorter History of Australia, Geoffrey Blainey confided that for “…many years I have been intermittently writing a very long and multi-sided book about Australia’s history, a book which I might never finish.” Coming from the doyen of Australian historians, this was exciting news. A single-author, inclusive and up-to-date account of our past is long over-due. Fast-forward over twen... Read more

We're a passionate lot at Booktopia, and it has taken weeks of reading, re-reading, meetings, angry coffee dates and re-re-reading to come up with The 2015 Booktopia Books of the Year... Read more

My first vision of Unforgiven came to me accompanied by music... Read more

Loyal Twilight fans, take a deep breath and release a collective sigh… Stephenie Meyer’s Life and Death is not the long-awaited Midnight Sun (the expected ‘Twilight as told from Edward Cullen’s perspective’) but an exploration into gender roles – a theory that Meyer wanted to indulge. Stephenie Meyer describes the novel as ‘a pretty straight-across-the-board gender swap’... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Emma Hooper author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James 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 Alberta, Canada. That’s right in the middle of Canada, where the long low prairies meet the rocky mountains. That’s where I was raised and schoo... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Mary Jo Putney author of Not Always A Saint and many more… Nine Naughty Questions ____________   1. Headless washboard abs, a torrid embrace, the sprawling homestead, an elegantly dressed décolletage, or the vaguely kinky object against a dark background – what’s your favourite type of romance cover and why? I like having people on the cover, preferably a coupl... Read more

I’m a journalist. Lies are not a valued commodity in my world... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Caleb Krisp author of Anyone but Ivy Pocket 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 somewhere near the beginning and raised in a series of locked rooms up and down the east coast. My schooling consisted of a one-legged governess with a prominent... Read more