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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

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