Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Penguin and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $900! Just buy any title in Penguin’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Penguin’s showcase Our Top Pick The Silver Moon by Bryce Courtenay Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dr... Read more

In 2005 I was awarded a May Gibbs Fellowship and as a result was given a month’s use of a studio in Adelaide, South Australia. My main objective was to begin work on a new book. Along with that, I agreed to regularly spend time with the grade 5 girls at Seymour College in Adelaide. Mary Clark was the teacher librarian at Seymour at the time and we communicated for several months before I arrive... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Walker Books and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $600!!! Just buy any title in Walker Books’ Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Walker Books’ showcase Our Top Pick The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson Ever wanted to know why Magnus Bane is banned from Peru? O... Read more

WEEKLY PRIZE DRAW WINNERS – CONGRATULATIONS TO: Booktopia Weekly Prize Draw : $250 Booktopia Gift Voucher Week 1 L.Pettit, Merewether, NSW Week 2 M.Taylor, Marrickville, NSW Week 3 A.Brozicevich, Fremantle, WA Booktoberfest is on right now, and you’re invited, so come and celebrate with us! Booktopia’s Booktoberfest is a month-long celebration of books, authors, publishers and most ... Read more

There wasn’t a time when I didn’t hanker after books. I grew up seeing the deep pleasure my mother got from reading and wanted it for myself. Pocket money funded my little girl obsession with pony stories as I fell utterly under the spell of the Pullein-Thompson sisters and Pat Smythe. The English horsey world they wrote about was so far removed from my Australian farm life but I was living it ... Read more

Writing Mr Hong gave me the opportunity to reminisce about the early stages of my career and think about exactly why I chose a life in food. Putting it all down on paper was a lot of fun and gave me the opportunity to think about the significant moments in my food journey that changed everything for me. Mr Hong is full of recipes, of course, and stories about my life to date – from growin... Read more

There have been many books that have inspired me to become an author/illustrator and compiling a list of just ten books was veeeeery difficult. Being a children’s writer, it’s children’s books that I’ve always enjoyed and found comfort in. Being a fairly reluctant reader as a child, I was always searching for books that combined expressive text with eye-catching illustrations. My love of childr... Read more

Why did I choose the chef’s life? This is the question that curious onlookers ask me with gusto when they hear about the long, hard hours and miniscule pay. Some chefs say that cooking seethes through their veins, a passion passed on in childhood and set to dominate their life. For me, it was not quite like this … my early years were spent diligently packing preserving jars with apricots, squee... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Bolinda and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $800!! Just buy any title in Bolinda’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Bolinda’s showcase Our Top Pick Amnesia by Peter Carey How does a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America’s public enemy number one? When Gaby Baillieux releases t... Read more

WEEKLY PRIZE DRAW WINNERS – CONGRATULATIONS TO: Booktopia Weekly Prize Draw : $250 Booktopia Gift Voucher Week 1 L.Pettit, Merewether, NSW Week 2 M.Taylor, Marrickville, NSW Booktoberfest is on right now, and you’re invited, so come and celebrate with us! Booktopia’s Booktoberfest is a month-long celebration of books, authors, publishers and most importantly you, the readers! WeR... Read more