Starting this Friday, 28 November at 8.30 pm on ABC 1, the long-awaited TV series of Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James finally hits our screens. The three-part series, based on the best-selling P.D. James novel of the same name, is a murder mystery picking up where Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ended. The cast includes Matthew Rhys, Anna Maxwell Martin, Jenna Coleman, Matthew Goo... Read more

Tonight Angelina Jolie will première her latest movie Unbroken (based on the book by Laura Hillenbrand) which she directed and filmed across New South Wales & Queensland last year. Talking about the WWII drama Jolie said that she she feels Zamperini’s inspirational story offers a bright light of hope for an often-troubled time. “(The world) can seem hopeless and it can seem very... Read more

A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists by Jane Rawson has won the Most Underrated Book Award for 2014. Announced at an event in Sydney last night, Rawson beat out Robert Kenny’s Gardens of Fire and Holy Bible by Vanessa Russell. A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists by Jane Rawson It is 1997 in San Francisco and Simon and Sarah have been sent on a quest to see America: they must ... Read more

CBS has picked up James Patterson’s bestselling thriller Zoo, expected to hit the small screen in 2015. Zoo will star James Wolk (of The Crazy Ones and Mad Men fame) as young biologist Jackson Oz. There will be thrills, spills and co-ordinated mammal attacks. Zoo by James Patterson An epic, unputdownable thriller from the world’s bestselling thriller writer James Patterson All over ... Read more

The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story: Life, Countdown and Everything in Between By: Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum Molly Meldrum’s warm, vivid, often hilarious and always compelling account of life in and out of Countdown. More than thirty-five years in the making, this is the story of Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum and the television show that stopped the nation. In 1974 Ian ‘Molly&#... Read more

From the LA Times: Netflix has secured the rights to Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” according to Deadline, with the bestselling series of books for kids to be adapted as a live-action series for the online streaming network. There are 13 books in the “Unfortunate Events” series, beginning with 1999’s “The Bad Beginning” and end... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Megan Amram author of Science…for Her! 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 Portland, Oregon, United States. Like most Americans, I don’t know any other countries. Is Australia in Florida? I was raised in Portland and schooled at Har... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Samantha Verant author of Seven Letters from Paris 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 Los Angeles at UCLA hospital in October of 1969, and I led the quintessential beach baby lifestyle…until my biological father drove off into the ... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Text Publishing and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!!! Just buy any title in Text Publishing’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Text Publishing’s showcase Our Top Pick The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion ‘We’ve got something to celebrate,’ Rosie said. I am not fond of surprises, especially i... Read more

The Melbourne Spring Carnival throws up uncertainty as quickly as the odds change in the Melbourne Cup all-in market. The favourite one day, can find himself the despised outsider. Every year we play the guessing game that is the Spring Carnival. It’s never an exact science, and in my thirty-eight years as a racing writer, I’ve seen Caulfield Cup winners and likely Melbourne Cup victors pull ou... Read more