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Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Simon & Schuster and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!! Just buy any title in Simon & Schuster’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Simon & Schuster’s showcase Our Top Pick Bill, The Life of William Dobell by Scott Bevan By 1945, William Dobell had become what so many artists desir... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Allen & Unwin and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!! Just buy any title in Allen & Unwin’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Allen and Unwin’s showcase Our Top Pick The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum Molly Meldrum’s warm, vivid, often hilarious a... Read more

1. The Rise and Fall of Australia by Nick Bryant In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that the author is my husband. But this is a terrific account of the amazing artistic success that Australia is achieving internationally at the moment, even if our politicians at home are letting us down. Click here to buy 2. Holiday at Home by Jason Grant My favorite Australian Interior styl... Read more

In many ways, my journey started with a book. When I was a baby, my mum had been wandering through the maze of disability when someone gave her a copy of Alan Marshall’s I Can Jump Puddles. This book is as close as you’ll get to a ‘how to’ guide for raising a child with a disability in the bush. It’s the story of a boy who lost the use of his legs through polio and... Read more

Charles Bean, Australia’s official correspondent during the Great War, is one of Australia’s most influential historians. He was, almost single-handedly, responsible for creating one of the most treasured aspects of our national psyche – the Anzac legend. To Bean, the men Australia sent to the Great War were a heroic ‘race apart’, whose self-sacrifice, courage and valour gave a new birth ... Read more

For much of his life, Stephen Hawking has been a cultural icon. The brilliant mind consigned to a wheelchair, the result of his crippling battle with motor neurone disease. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time changed the way science was looked at by the world, selling more than 10 million copies and being translated into over 40 languages. Despite this, little is known of Hawking’s priv... Read more

We love giving away stuff at Booktopia, and during September we had the following prizes up for grabs: A Barbie, Hot Wheels or My Little Pony pack, 1 of 6 Hilary Mantel Collections and 2 (I REPEAT 2) copies of Gone Girl signed by Gillian Flynn !!! See if you’re a winner below, and don’t forgot to check out our Booktoberfest page for more great prizes you could win. A Barbie Prize Pa... Read more

Jamie’s Comfort Food by Jamie Oliver Jamie’s new cookbook brings together 100 ultimate comfort food recipes from around the world. It’s all about the dishes that are close to your heart, that put a smile on your face and make you feel happy, loved, safe and secure. Inspired by everything from childhood memories to the changing of the seasons, and taking into account the guilty pleasures a... Read more

Last night a few lucky Booktopians got an early look at the film adaptation Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. The experience proved, without a doubt, that great films made from great books can peacefully co-exist. More often than not a great book is butchered by Hollywood, with dense characters painted insipidly on the screen,... Read more

As September draws to a close we don’t want you to miss out on two amazing prizes you could win. Today is your last chance to win a beautiful Hilary Mantel book pack or a signed copy of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl! Hilary Mantel and Gillian Flynn couldn’t be more different as writers, but they do share a couple of traits, both selling millions and millions of copies worldwide, a... Read more