My name is Andrew Cattanach, and my family home had a cricket book wall. Many of them, in fact. When I was growing up I noticed my walls had a different look to them than other family homes. Sometimes there were tasteful awnings, feature walls drowned in colour, even red bricks peering through the paintwork. But no other home had a cricket book wall. So it was like smelling my mother’s cookies ... Read more
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Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Murdoch Books – you could win Tessa Kiros and Matthew Evans gift packs worth $625!
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Murdoch Books – you could win Tessa Kiros and Matthew Evans gift packs worth $625! Click here to enter the showcase Read more
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Penguin Books Australia – you could win 26 beautiful books worth more than $900.
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Penguin Books Australia – you could win 26 beautiful books worth more than $900. Click here to enter the showcase Read more
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Hachette Australia – you could win 26 beautiful books worth $600!
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Hachette Australia – you could win 26 beautiful books worth $600! Click here to enter the showcase Read more
Hilary Mantel : “Well, I don’t know, you wait 20 years for a Booker Prize and two come along at once.”
From the Man Booker website: Hilary Mantel is tonight named the winner of the £50,000 ($81,000) Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel Bring up the Bodies, published by Fourth Estate. Hilary Mantel is the first woman and the first British author to win the prize twice. She is only the third double winner alongside J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey. She is also the first person to win the prize f... Read more
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Random House Australia – you could win a book prize pack worth $899!
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Random House Australia – you could win a book prize pack worth $899! Click here to enter the showcase ALSO… Buy Eureka before the end of October to go in the draw to win one of three (3) sets of signed Peter FitzSimons books with a personalised message. Books include: Eureka, Mawson and Batavia. Read more
Booktoberfest Clearance Sale is on NOW!
6000+ titles all reduced OVER 1000 TITLES FOR LESS THAN $2 OUR BIGGEST SALE EVER! The biggest names in print discounted by up to 95%! We’ve been busy piling books into our warehouse so that we can bring you these fantastic bargains for the rest of the month. Thrillers from authors you love like Ian Rankin, Thomas Harris, Kathy Reichs. Romance from Maeve Binchy, Jackie Collins and many more. Our... Read more
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and HarperCollins Books Australia – you could win a book prize pack worth $715!
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and HarperCollins Books Australia – you could win a book prize pack worth $715! Click here to enter the showcase Read more
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Wiley – you could win a business book library and a children’s classics prize pack worth $1000!
Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Wiley – you could win a business book library and a children’s classics prize pack worth $1000! Click here to enter the showcase Read more
REVIEW: Sebastian Faulks – A Possible Life (Review by Catherine Horne)
The day after I finished Sebastian Faulks’s astonishing new novel I sat down to a few episodes of Mad Men. In one of his many moments of boozy insight, Don Draper offers this pearl of advertising wisdom to his protégé Peggy Olson: ‘You are the product. You feeling something. That’s what sells.’ This quote momentarily shattered my nostalgia-fuelled swoonfest as I realised that this is exactly ho... Read more