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The release of Go Set a Watchman next week is already shaping as the literary event of the century. The sequel (or ‘parent’ as Harper Lee calls it) to her seminal 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, exploring racial injustice in the American Deep South, will demand a two million copy initial print run in the US, numbers which have never been seen before. The release of the novel hasn&... Read more

Voracious reader and office loudmouth Andrew Cattanach lifts the lid on his favourite books of the year, so far! Quicksand by Steve Toltz I had my doubts about Steve Toltz even attempting to write a follow up to A Fraction of the Whole. Not only did he write it, he might have a Miles Franklin winner on his hands. Savagely witty and chaotically brilliant. Aldo has been so relentlessly unlucky – ... Read more

James Patterson has been at the top of bestseller lists for over 20 years, with more than 305 million copies of his books still in print. It’s no wonder that, when we ran our competition to win a signed James Patterson pack, Booktopians got a little excited. All you had to do to enter was order any title from our James Patterson Book Guides by June 30th. TRUTH OR DIE by James Patterson, H... Read more

This is Ronson at his finest. Funny, intriguing and, in some places, downright shocking. Read more

May was our Month of Crime and we celebrated by giving customers the chance to win a book pack filled with awesome crime novels! All you had to do to enter was order Mark Billingham’s brilliant new book, Time of Death. Time of Death The Tom Thorne Series : Book 13 by Mark Billingham The Missing Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knif... Read more

Shikha Shah, Booktopia’s biggest Fifty Shades fan, has been up all night reading E.L. James’ latest offering. The review we’ve all been waiting for is finally here! Miss Shah will see you now… To all Fifty Shades Fans – the book that we have been waiting for is finally here! In Grey we delve into the mind of Christian, what he thinks, how he thinks, how he feels (e... Read more

Do you love John Green novels? Do you love sweeping films about first loves and losses? Do you love rubbing shoulders with celebrities? Are you feeling lucky, punk? After the runaway success of the film adaptation of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars another of his novels, Paper Towns, is about the hit the big screen. To celebrate this, we have 2 double passes to the Australian Premiere... Read more

Australian novelist Cathryn Hein, author of The Falls, The French Prize, Heartland and much more gives her verdict on the books she’s been reading. Lyrebird Hill by Anna Romer I thoroughly enjoyed Romer’s debut novel Thornwood House and her follow up, Lyrebird Hill, didn’t disappoint. The story unfolded beautifully, slipping between the present and colonial times, and held me captivated t... Read more

Do you love crime……fiction? Order Time of Death by Mark Billingham by midnight tonight and you could win an amazing crime prize pack! Time of Death The Tom Thorne Series : Book 13 by Mark Billingham The Missing Two schoolgirls are abducted in the small, dying Warwickshire town of Polesford, driving a knife into the heart of the community where police officer Helen Weeks grew up and ... Read more

A Pound of Flesh by Sophie Jackson, is the latest in a long line of Twilight fan fiction to be published. Jackson’s reason for creating Twilight fanfic alone makes you want to read this book because, let’s be honest, we are all guilty of creating new scenarios in our head and imagining an entirely different story. I’ve done it with so many of my favourite romance books, albeit... Read more