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If you love books and you’re on twitter, you really need to be following Stephen King. He LOVES tweeting about books. So much so that his twitter feed sometimes feels like some sort of rambling book club. In fact, he tweets so much about books that someone should accumulate all his tweets into one blog post and provide links on where to pick up these wonderful books. Well we’re goin... Read more

Writing a novel is more difficult than writing a screenplay. Why do I think this? Two words. Word count. My three action novels run between eighty to one hundred thousand words each. A typical screenplay? Twenty thousand, if that. I had one horror script come in at sixteen thousand a few years back. So, obviously, that means the time investment is very different too, about a year for a book ver... Read more

Booktopia’s Editorial Director Caroline Baum has been named a finalist for the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian writer for a proposed biographical work. The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was established in 2011 to encourage Australian authors to attain a high standard of biography writing and to commemorate the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Ro... Read more

We’ve finally arrived! After all your nominations and voting, we now have the final list of Australia’s Favourite Authors for you to vote on! You can vote for as many authors as you like, so make sure you look carefully through the list. This poll is open all week, so tell your family and friends to cast their vote as well! At midday on Monday the 19th of January we’ll begin t... Read more

During November and December we gave you the chance to enter a bunch of competitions to give you a stellar start to 2015. We had a North Face backpack, a ball and mini cricket bat signed by Glenn Maxwell and dinner for two at Peter Gilmore’s award-winning restaurant Quay, valued at $520, up for grabs. All you had to do to enter was order Walking Home by Sonia Choquette. And the lucky winn... Read more

In December we gave you the chance to enter our Leatherbound Classics competition. We had a Leatherbound Classics library to giveaway to one lucky customer! All you had to do to enter was buy a book from the series. Quite frankly everyone in the office was upset that employees can’t enter competitions, what a prize! And the very lucky winner of a Leatherbound Classics library is… B.... Read more

We’ve all heard the news and now we are SO excited! Aren’t we? Well, if you haven’t already heard there may be an Absolutely Fabulous film released this year! I have loved this show for so long, I can’t even remember when I started watching it. My mother always hated it but my grandfather adored it, he saw things my way. I think what we both loved about Absolutely Fabulo... Read more

In November and December we gave you the chance to enter two incredible competitions. We had 8 Bolinda Audiobook packs up for grabs with each audiobook in the pack signed by the author, or 3 books signed by Professor Brian Cox to win! And the lucky winner of the Brian Cox pack is… S.Patterson, Baynton, WA All you had to do to enter was buy Human Universe. Human life is a staggeringly stra... Read more

2014 was a huge year for Australian authors. There seems no better time, January being our month of Australian Stories, to reflect on my favourite Australian authors of 2014. So many Australian authors had career defining years in 2014, but these are a few that made a huge impact with their work both on and off the page. Confused about the concept? So am I, but we’ll get there. Sonya Hart... Read more

Establishing your own style is one of the hardest things to achieve, even more so when you’ve trying to raise children. Have no fear, Dijanna Mulhearn is here! Dijanna’s new book Wardrobe 101 for Mums is the follow up to her phenomenally successful Wardrobe 101. She chats with John Purcell in this exclusive interview. Grab a copy of Wardrobe 101 for Mums here Wardrobe 101 for Mums b... Read more