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It’s Kids Month at Booktopia and we have awesome competitions for you to enter and signed promotions for you to enjoy! Old School Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Book 10 by Jeff Kinney Buy anything in the Kids Month range and you could win a kids book pack, worth $1000 RRP! Terms and Conditions apply. The Diary of the Wimpy Kid series of books, by best-selling author Jeff Kinney, charts the highs ... Read more

In December 2013 the whole of Melbourne was buzzing with the details of a most bizarre murder... Read more

For an extremely limited time only, we gave two lucky people the opportunity to join us at Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, for the evening performance at The Lyric Theatre on August 19th. All you had to to was simply order a copy of the tie-in edition of Matilda by August 13th to enter! And the lucky Booktopian is… R.Shen, Kings Langley, NSW   Matilda : Theatre Tie-In by Roald Dahl Matil... 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’s been reading. It has been a busy few months for me! Every June, I run a writers’ retreat and literary tour in Oxford and the Cotswolds (https://www.kateforsyth.com.au/writing-r... Read more

Did you know the most amazing netball players in the world are in the same place at the same time – right now – in Australia! The Netball World Cup is currently being held in Sydney, wrapping up on the 16th August. If you’re not in Sydney to watch the games, don’t worry, Fox Sports will cover all the Netball World Cup games and Network Ten will broadcast the Australian Diamonds’ mat... Read more

In June and July we had a pile of prizes and promotions for you to plunder. Let’s wrap a few up and announce the winners of these great prizes, shall we? All you had to do to enter was order from The Izzy Folau series by July 31st! Daniel and Sione have been given the chance of a lifetime to be coached by Australian rugby union star, Israel Folau. But can they make it count? While Daniel and Si... Read more

Blindsided. by rugby great Michael Lynagh, is a life-affirming memoir about luck, family, mates and rugby; and a timely reminder of how you play the game of life, as much as rugby, matters…even if you happen to be a Wallaby legend… To celebrate its release, we offered Booktopian’s something really exciting, the chance to attend the Bledisloe Cup! The winner to receive two Adul... Read more

Guest Blogger Jeremy Vine looks at the most famous Queer Characters in the Comic Book World. Superhero comics push a lot of story-telling boundaries and often touch on some very topical issues, but let’s be honest, they aren’t always down with the rainbow. Over the years there have been a lot of characters who would fall into the category of ‘queer’ but not as many who w... Read more

Guest Blogger Jeremy Vine answers the ago old question posed by comic book newbies It’s a question that gets asked a lot by newcomers to comics. Some characters, like Batman and Superman, have been getting published every month for the last seventy five years. These aren’t really stories where you can just start at the beginning and read through to the end – there’s too much. ... Read more

Firehawk helicopter pilot Vern Taylor can’t help but be distracted by gorgeous mechanic Denise Conroy. Fighting forest fires with Mount Hood Aviation is a far cry from some of the violence Vern has seen…until they find out that MHA isn’t all that it seems. I love heroines who have non-traditional careers, and helicopter mechanic fits that bill. I particularly love Denise’s camarader... Read more