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[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

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Scholastic Australia- you could win $1,000 worth of Scholastic Rewards for the school of your choice. Click here to enter the showcase Read more

Days of Blood and Starlight is the second book in what has to be the most wildly imaginative and beautifully written Urban Fantasy series I have come across in a long, long time. There was a time I’d have said Urban Fantasy was one of my favourite genres. But then along came a multi-million dollar book/movie franchise that will remain nameless (cough, cough, Twilight, cough) that was so insanel... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Hardie Grant Books – you could win a book prize pack worth worth $575! Click here to enter the showcase Read more