Romance Archives

January is the month of Australian Stories at Booktopia, and to celebrate we need your help to discover Australia’s Favourite Novelist for 2014! This is it folks. Your last chance to push your favourite authors into next week’s final round of voting. Last year’s winner Kate Morton is also in this heat! Next week we’ll have the top 100 authors from all the heats for you to vote... Read more

January is the month of Australian Stories at Booktopia, and to celebrate we need your help to discover Australia’s Favourite Novelist for 2014! Heat 4 is full of some huge names and exciting newcomers. Who will you vote for? Thanks to everyone who has voted so far, the response has been incredible! And thanks to all the wonderful authors and publishers for spreading the word! Remember you can ... Read more

January is the month of Australian Stories at Booktopia, and to celebrate we need your help to discover Australia’s Favourite Novelist for 2014! Today’s list is full of the most popular writers in Australia today, it’s a tough one! Remember you can select as many authors as you like with your vote and give them the chance to become Australia’s Favourite Novelist! ——... Read more

January is the month of Australian Stories at Booktopia, and to celebrate we need your help to discover Australia’s Favourite Novelist for 2014! Yesterday had some big surprises as Australia searched their hearts and bookcases, will today be the same? A reminder that this is only Heat 2, so you might see some of your favourites missing today. Don’t worry, over the week you’ll have a... Read more

January is the month of Australian Stories at Booktopia, and to celebrate we need your help to discover Australia’s Favourite Novelist for 2014! We’ve taken your nominations and today is the day to put your votes forward. You can vote for as many novelists as you like. A reminder that this is only Heat 1, so you might see some of your favourites missing today. Don’t worry, over the ... Read more

The Booktopia team  nominates their favourite titles from a great year of books. Caroline Baum’s Picks THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS Elizabeth Gilbert From Caroline’s Book of the Year Review: I’ve said it more than once, and I will say it again, loudly. I ADORE this book. I don’t think it has found the readership it deserves because some people think ‘Oh, she wrote E... Read more

Sometimes we all feel like curling up with a cup of tea and having a bit of a weep. A book is the perfect answer for that kind of mood – you can experience an entire emotional rollercoaster in an evening without ever having to leave your couch. Each of these books guarantees that combination of escapism and all the feels. There will be no graceful, one-tear-silently-slipping-down-the-chee... Read more

Bestselling author Kate Belle on the expectation of a HEA I have an affliction as a ‘romance’ writer. I’m not good at happy endings. Actually, it’s more of a curse than an affliction, because romance readers expect their Happy Ever After (HEA) fix, it’s why they read the genre. For God’s sake, in romance HEA’s are mandatory! It’s part of the genre’s promise. Believe me, I’ve tried, God knows I’... Read more

Curious about which rogue is most full of rascal, which heroine the sharpest, which love scene the steamiest? Booktopia’s romance guru Haylee Nash rates the Top Ten Most Romantic Novels ever written. From Mr. Darcy to Noah Calhoun, our Top Ten covers unmissable classics and contemporary hits. Think the list is spot on? Or did we miss a crucial novel (too few Scottish highlanders)? Let us ... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Meg Cabot author of The Bride Wore Size 12 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, raised, and educated in Bloomington, Indiana, known world wide as the “Gateway to Scenic Southern Indiana.” Read more