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Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Text Publishing and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!!! Just buy any title in Text Publishing’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Text Publishing’s showcase Our Top Pick The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion ‘We’ve got something to celebrate,’ Rosie said. I am not fond of surprises, especially i... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Thames & Hudson and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!!! Just buy any title in Thames & Hudson’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Thames & Hudson’s showcase Our Top Pick The Forever House by Cameron Bruhn, Katelin Butler Imagine a home designed and built especially for your family... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and The Five Mile Press and you could win this amazing prize pack worth $999!! Just buy any title in The Five Mile Press Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter The Five Mile Press showcase Our Top Pick Little Elliot, Big City by Mike Curato Amid the hustle and bustle, the big crowds and bigger buildings, Little Elliot leads a quiet l... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Murdoch Books and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $800!!! Just buy any title in Murdoch Books’ Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Murdoch Books’ showcase Our Top Pick Sepia by Martin Benn Sepia, is quite simply, one long, exquisite, “wow” moment.’ – John Lethlean, Weekend A... Read more

I realised with shame that I’d not read any fiction for so long that I was losing touch with other people’s storytelling.  I was so immersed in my two novels per year, my research/travels, masterclasses, book tours, festivals and just as importantly, my family, that reading for the pure joy of entertainment had been ignored.  I do read towers of books for research and I love it, but it’s not th... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Harlequin and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $500!!! Just buy any title in Harlequin’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Harlequin’s showcase Our Top Pick The Brewer’s Tale by Karen Brooks It had been Mother’s secret and mine, one passed down through the de Winter women for generatio... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Pan Macmillan and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!!! Just buy any title in Pan Macmillan’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Pan Macmillan’s showcase Our Top Pick The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly Order The Great Zoo of China before November 30th and go in the draw to win a signed Mat... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Bloomsbury and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $800!!! Just buy any title in Bloomsbury’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Bloomsbury’s showcase Our Top Pick Let Me be Frank with You by Richard Ford Richard Ford returns to the territory that sealed his reputation as a master: the world of Frank ... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Random House and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $800!!! Just buy any title in Random House’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Random House’s showcase Our Top Pick My Story by Julia Gillard ‘I was Prime Minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Thre... Read more

Writing in the steppes of Genghis Khan A crisp autumn day near the Danube River in Hungary in 2007 marked the end of a long journey for my animals and I. For three and a half years I had travelled with three horses, and a dog, Tigon, from the Mongolian empire capital, Kharkhorin, across the steppe of Central Asia on a quest to understand the legacy of the nomads – the horseback cultures, who un... Read more