With historical must-reads from Peter FitzSimons on Sir Douglas Mawson, to the brilliant fiction that is Elliot Perlman's The Street Sweeper, to highly anticipated autobiographies from cricket fast bowler Brett Lee and Tour de France Green Jersey winner Robbie McEwen you will have all your Christmas gifts covered Read more

What a cracker of an edition I have for you for December. How is this for a line-up? Gifts, give-aways and goodies to win include an amazing high quality Ken Duncan signed and numbered print valued at nearly $2,000 to be won by a purchaser of Australia: Our Island Paradise Read more

Five weeks, five prizes to be won, each prize being the winner's choice of books with an RRP of $100. Want to be in the running? Read more

What I do get to do however, is to sample a LOT of books, and I get to fall in love with a few. And the few that take me to a different place, more than make up for the rest of the 450 on that list that made me want to go out and re-plant the trees. So here they are, my top picks for 2011, for those of you for whom Morrissey and Reilly just don't cut it. Read more

At the end of the day, once you finish The Freudian Slip you’ll most likely be asking yourself the same question that has been niggling at me since I flipped the last page. Where is my time machine? Read more

Recently, I was given Miroslav Penkov's East of the West collection. Never heard of him? Either had I. While Penkov is a debut author, Rodney Hall's latest collection, Silence, comes to us from the pen of a true master. Read more

In 2003, Nikki Gemmell created waves when The Bride Stripped Bare became a literary sensation with its raw unflinching depiction of female sexuality. Now she returns with another tour de force addressing the questions of what is intimacy and whether it is ever really possible to know another person. It is at once a manifesto of married mothers everywhere and a highly personal story of one woman... Read more

Alice Hoffman has chosen the calendar settings wisely for her upcoming novel The Dovekeepers, which is a remarkable re-telling of the Masada story. Read more

At Booktopia, we have made Get Reading even better. We are giving away the entire collection of 50 books to one lucky person who buys from the Get Reading 50 between now and the end of September. How good is that? 50 books you get to keep Read more

Sarah Thornhill is a fitting ending to the trilogy. Grenville writes like a poet, matching her rhythm and cadence to the characters and the setting. The story is utterly compelling and the emotion is taut and eventually, overwhelming Read more