Book Recommendations Archives

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

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