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Nominations for Australia’s Favourite Author are now open! The poll that stops the nation is back! We’re asking you to tell us your favourite Australia Author! Novelists, picture book authors, historians, biographers, all authors are now all open for nomination! You see, January at Booktopia is the month of Australian Stories, an entire month dedicated to celebrating books by Austra... Read more

In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and powerful response to racism in Australian and the sorrow, shame, anger and hards... Read more

With 2015 about to come to a close, and our Booktopia Books of the Year already announced, it’s time to present our Top 50 Bestselling Books of 2015. How many have you read? 50. SPECIAL DELIVERY by Annabel Crabb In Special Delivery, Annabel has teamed up with her best friend from childhood, fellow food tragic and Kitchen Cabinet recipe consultant Wendy Sharpe, to bring you recipes for tho... Read more

We gaze into our crystal ball and make five bookish predictions for 2016… ——————————————– 1. George R.R. Martin’s The Winds of Winter will be released before season 6 of Game of Thrones ends It’s been the burning question since the TV series began, but in 2016 fans of Martin’s Song ... 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

Australia’s most listened-to film critic, Marc Fennell, tells the hidden stories behind the movies you know and love whilst also introducing you to a (bizarre) world of cinema you never knew existed. Did you know that there are messed up filmic versions of fairytales? Take for example the ancient Russian version of Beauty and the Beast which shows that all it takes to marry a prince is no... Read more

One of Australia’s favourite novelists Kate Forsyth, author of The Impossible Quest, Bitter Greens, The Wild Girl and now The Beast’s Garden, continues her monthly blog with us, giving her verdict on the books she read in October. My son – like so many others his age – sat his HSC last month, and so I spent lots of time waiting for him outside exam halls and libraries. This meant lots of lovely... Read more

My writing life itself is messy, ad hoc, organic and irregular in every way... Read more

It’s (almost) here! At long last, it has (nearly) arrived! All hail The Red Queen. Like so many others, I’ve been a fan of The Obernewtyn Chronicles since I was kid. I have read and re-read these books so many times, my copies have grown battered and torn and the characters have come to feel like old friends. But alas, all good things must come to an end! With The Red Queen, Isobell... Read more

What Katie Read… One of Australia’s favourite novelists Kate Forsyth, author of The Impossible Quest, Bitter Greens, The Wild Girl and now The Beast’s Garden, continues her monthly blog with us, giving her verdict on the books she’s been reading.   The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton This is one of the most beautiful and haunting psychological thrillers I have ever read. It bre... Read more