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Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Penguin and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $900! Just buy any title in Penguin’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Penguin’s showcase Our Top Pick The Silver Moon by Bryce Courtenay Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dr... Read more

Looking back, I’ve had a pretty busy fourteen years. As a writer, here are just some of the things I’ve got up to: – I spent ten months running a winery-restaurant in the Clare Valley. – My two sisters and I had a big falling out and didn’t speak to each other for three years. – I moved to New York, where I not only found a job with a cantankerous old woman, but also met the l... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Walker Books and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $600!!! Just buy any title in Walker Books’ Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Walker Books’ showcase Our Top Pick The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson Ever wanted to know why Magnus Bane is banned from Peru? O... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks  Jennifer St George author of Tempted by the Billionaire Tycoon Nine Naughty Questions ———————————- 1. I wonder, is a romance writer born or made? Please tell us a little about your life before publication. I suppose they could be both, but I was certainly a romance writer that was made. Before taking... Read more

If you ever tried the Dick challenge and attempted to read all of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction works, after a while you may have felt, as I did, that all those strange worlds and characters seemed to blend together and it is hard to remember what happens in each book.   For me, as a Dick lover, I don’t mind this and think it was maybe intentional on the part of the author. He wa... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Bolinda and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $800!! Just buy any title in Bolinda’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Bolinda’s showcase Our Top Pick Amnesia by Peter Carey How does a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America’s public enemy number one? When Gaby Baillieux releases t... Read more

Australian novelist Cathryn Hein, author of The French Prize, Heartland and much more gives her verdict on the books she’s been reading. I read some wonderful books this month, from a traditional Mills & Boon romance that surprised me hugely, to heart-pounding thrillers, an Australian bush-set Gothic mystery and the heart-warming tale of a socially awkward vet. Damaso Claims His Heir ... Read more

This week’s Booktopia Book Trailer of the Week goes to Walter Wheat’s methmerising new cookbook book Baking Bad. Cupcakes like you’ve never seen them before. Grab a copy of Baking Bad here Baking Bad by Walter Wheat You’re hooked on Breaking Bad. You’ve got high on the escapades of Walt and Jessie. Now it’s come to an end and you’re missing your latest ... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and HarperCollins and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $999!! Just buy any title in HarperCollins’ Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter HarperCollins’ showcase Our Top Pick Kerry Stokes : The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule The compelling and inspirational story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes... Read more

In August we gave you the chance to enter our Kids Month Where’s Wally competition. We had 1 of 5 Where’s Wally packs valued at $175 RRP to giveaway! All you had to do to enter was find Wally on the website and buy a book from our Kids Month range. And the lucky winners of a Where’s Wally pack are… L.Randall, Ivanhoe East, VIC M.Hakeem, Mortdale, NSW E.Wells, Springwood,... Read more