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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD0IE4jCpvo&rel=0] Montebello : A Memoir by Robert Drewe Listen to me,’ my mother says. ‘They’ve let off an atom bomb today. Right here in W.A. Atom bombs worry the blazes out of me, and I want you at home.’ In the sleepy and conservative 1950s the British began a series of nuclear tests in the Montebello archipelago off the we... Read more

Twists and Turns People kept remarking on how they were surprised that a gold medal and fame hadn’t changed me. I always responded, ‘Why would I change? Being me is the easiest person to be.’ I was lying. It wasn’t. At the Beijing Olympic Games, he made history with an unforgettable dive, the first to ever score perfect tens from all four judges, and won gold for Australia. Grinning with pride ... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Peter FitzSimons author of Eureka Stockade: The Unfinished Revolution, Mawson, Batavia, Kokoda and many more… Six Sharp Questions ————————————– 1. Congratulations, you have a new book. What is it about and what does it mean to you? Eureka Stockade: The Unfinished Revolution, details ... Read more

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa3eC02delM&rel=0] A young, free-range chicken… A dominating, ravenous chef… Fifty recipes to make every dinner a turn-on… Fifty Shades of Chicken is a cookbook serving up epicurean double entendres and 50 excellent chicken recipes all while telling the story of a young free-range and very fresh chicken who, like Anastasia Steele, fi... Read more

Follow on from part one… Still Life with Shape-Shifter by Sharon Shinn With her beautifully wrought prose, Shinn has crafted worlds of grace and beauty in both genres of science fiction and fantasy. Now she turns her talents to our world and presents a treasure of urban fantasy chronicling the relationship between two sisters and the need to keep a life changing secret that is not your ow... Read more

Christmas is coming! Given the way the last couple of months have sped by it will be here before you know it. It’s rather easy at this time of year to see the new release books put at the top of catalogues, and piled in big displays – publishers throw fireworks around the newest blockbuster from the big name authors – and those of us with loved ones who read can easily pick up... Read more

Do you like scary stories? I’ll try my hand at one. Brynne Edelsten has her own television show. Not scary enough? Well you’re a tough nut to crack. Here’s five spine-chilling titles sure to make the hairs on your goosebumps rise. It by Stephen King It began for the Losers on a day in June of 1958, the day school let out for the summer. That was the day Henry Bowers carved the... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and The Five Mile Press – you could win a book prize pack worth worth $575! Click here to enter the showcase Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Woodslane – order Coastal Paradise Revealed or any Ken Duncan book from his photography series and go in the running to win a specially signed photograph print from Ken Duncan himself valued at $450. AND during Booktoberfest, when you buy one or more of the excellent titles from the Woodslane Booktoberfest Showcase you go in the draw to win the l... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Pan Macmillan Australia – you could win a book prize pack worth $680! Click here to enter the showcase Read more