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Newest MasterChef sensation, and Country Women’s Association cake champion’s secrets shared! One of life’s simple pleasures is the lingering aroma of a freshly baked cake, especially one you have made yourself. Cooks everywhere are rediscovering the satisfaction that comes from old-fashioned baking at home. And in this delectable world of cakes, scones, sponges and puddings, one home cook... Read more

I picked up The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I am totally devastated by this book. I cried when I read it, and I never cry. You don’t want to throw around phrases like “instant classic,” but I can see this book sitting next to The Catcher in the Rye. It’s that good. Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians and The Magician King [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_FzrUXOZEc&rel=0] NB... Read more

 The Booktopia Book Guru asks Eowyn Ivey author of The Snow Child Ten Terrifying Questions  ————————— 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in Denver, Colorado, but have spent my entire life since I was a very small child in Alaska. I attended public schoo... Read more

‘People like us … have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us … above their moral standards.’ — Modigliani Amedeo (‘Beloved of God’) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as van Gogh’s. In Modigliani’s time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists bu... Read more

Marianne de Pierres author of Burn Bright, Angel Arias and The Sentients of Orion series reveals… The 5 best novels I read this year are… Faithful Place by Tana French Marianne de Pierres: Tana French is a relatively new Irish crime writer with only three novels released to date. With each book she goes from strength to strength, and this, her third novel delivers superior characterisation and ... Read more

This is a novel Thomas Mann began when a young man and finished when an old man. He said he didn’t have the strength needed to keep up the tone of the novel when he was young. When you read this strange, delightful, exciting novel you’ll know what he meant. Felix Krull, the hero/villain, is exuberant and fantastical and irrepressible. To think up such a character requires youth R... Read more

OUT IN JANUARY: A new novel set in the world of Lauren Kate’s bestselling Fallen series. FALLEN IN LOVE is a riveting collection of four intertwined love stories featuring the Fallen characters that fans have grown to know and love: Miles, Shelby, Roland, Arriane, and Luce & Daniel. The novel, FALLEN IN LOVE, will be released in Australia 26th January 2012, before the fourth and final... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Lisa Heidke author of Lucy Springer Gets Even, What Kate Did Next, Claudia’s Big Break and, coming in January 2012, Stella Makes Good Six Sharp Questions ——————————– 1. Congratulations, you’ve a new book – what is it about and what does this book mean to you? In short, Stella Makes Good, is abou... Read more

Our Annual Christmas to New Year Clearance Sale is on right now. We have books from just $1 and over 500 titles under $3. What a great way to finish off the year! We have around 2,000 new bargain titles that we bought since our last sale so there should be plenty new titles to choose from… especially for kids. If you want to get to our Clearance Sale right now and browse Fiction, Non-fict... Read more

We can acknowledge that eBooks are cheap, convenient and instant… But I can’t think of them as sexy. These wonders from Penguin, however… Grrrrrrrrr… Penguin’s Clothbound Classics If, like us, you not only love having a great Classic to read but also cherish the feel of a wonderful object, then these are the books for you. Bound in cloth and each individually desig... Read more