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Still Me is a lovely addition to a beloved series

Tanaya Lowden reviews Still Me, the third book in the Me Before You series by Jojo Moyes. Read more

by Tanaya Lowden | January 30, 2018 No comments

Five recent reads our staff have loved

Ben Hunter and John Purcell review these five great reads! Read more

by Ben Hunter | January 29, 2018 No comments

Banana Yoshimoto Ben Hunter Buzz Reviews of the Month Domenico Starnone Han Kang John Purcell Julian Barnes Moshi Moshi Reviews Robert Lukins The Everlasting Sunday The Only Story The White Book Trick

What Katie Read: Author Kate Forsyth reviews the 10 books she recently read and loved.

Kate Forsyth, author of Beauty in Thorns, reviews the books she read in December 2017. Read more

by Kate Forsyth | January 16, 2018 2 comments

Colin Dexter Greenwitch Inspector Morse Kate Forsyth Kate Furnivall Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Last Seen Wearing Over Sea Under Stone Silver on the Tree Susan Cooper The Betrayal The Dark Is Rising The Dark Is Rising Sequence The Grey King The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn The War I Finally Won The War That Saved My Life What Katie Read

What John Purcell did on his holidays

John Purcell discusses the books he read whilst on holidays. Read more

by John Purcell | January 12, 2018 3 comments

Amos Oz Ben Hobson Colm Toibin Flaubert's Parrot Holly Ringland House of Names How to Stop Time Ian McEwan John Purcell Julian Barnes Matt Haig Nutshell Penelope Fitzgerald Reviews Roddy Doyle Smile The Bookshop The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart The Lucky Galah The Only Story The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton To Become a Whale Tracy Sorensen

4 January Young Adult reads we’ve loved

Sarah McDuling and Tanaya Lowden review four new Young Adult releases for January. Read more

by Tanaya Lowden | January 9, 2018 No comments

Adriana Mather Batman Batman: Nightwalker DC Icons DC Icons Series Everless Holly Black How to Hang a Witch Marie Lu Sara Holland Sarah McDuling Tanaya Lowden The Cruel Prince The Folk of the Air YA YA Reviews of the Month Young Adult

Four ways that sport helped Taryn Bashford get published

Taryn Bashford discusses the influence of sport on her debut novel, The Harper Effect. Read more

by Booktopia Guest Blogger | January 5, 2018 No comments

#LoveOzYA Sports Taryn Bashford tennis The Harper Effect YA Young Adult Young Adult Fiction

Three Julian Barnes books to read while waiting for The Only Story

Waiting for the release of The Only Story by Julian Barnes? Here's three books for whilst you wait! Read more

by Ben Hunter | January 5, 2018 No comments

Ben Hunter Fiction Julian Barnes Levels of Life Literary Literature Man Booker Prize Winner The Noise of Time The Only Story The Sense of an Ending

Tim Winton’s latest is set to be an Australian classic

John Purcell reviews Tim Winton's upcoming release, The Shepherd's Hut. Read more

by John Purcell | January 4, 2018 No comments

Breath Cloudstreet Dirt Music John Purcell Literary New Tim Winton Review Tim Winton

Best of 2017: Young Adult Fiction

Browse our shortlist and winner for the best young adult fiction of 2017! Read more

by Tanaya Lowden | December 28, 2017 No comments

#LoveOzYA Alice Pung Amie Kaufman Angie Thomas Begin Best of 2017 Danielle Binks Ellie Marney End Gabrielle Tozer His Dark Materials Jaclyn Moriarty La Belle Sauvage Laini Taylor Lili Wilkinson Marissa Meyer Meagan Spooner Melissa Keil Michael Pryor Philip Pullman Renegades Strange the Dreamer The Book of Dust The Hate U Give Turtles All the Way Down unearthed Will Kostakis YA YA Fiction Young Adult Young Adult Fiction

Best of 2017: Historical Fiction

Browse our shortlist and winner for the best historical fiction of 2017! Read more

by Tanaya Lowden | December 28, 2017 1 comment

A Column of Fire.Bernard Cornwell Best of 2017 Chris Womersley City of Crows Fools and Mortals Historical Fiction Jennifer Egan Ken Follett Manhattan Beach Minette Walters Munich Philippa Gregory Robert Harris The Last Hours The Last Tudor

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