Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and HarperCollins and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $999!! Just buy any title in HarperCollins’ Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter HarperCollins’ showcase Our Top Pick Kerry Stokes : The Boy from Nowhere by Andrew Rule The compelling and inspirational story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Simon & Schuster and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!! Just buy any title in Simon & Schuster’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Simon & Schuster’s showcase Our Top Pick Bill, The Life of William Dobell by Scott Bevan By 1945, William Dobell had become what so many artists desir... Read more

Celebrate Booktoberfest with Booktopia and Allen & Unwin and you could win this amazing prize pack worth over $700!! Just buy any title in Allen & Unwin’s Booktoberfest Showcase and you could win! Click here to enter Allen and Unwin’s showcase Our Top Pick The Never, Um, Ever Ending Story by Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum Molly Meldrum’s warm, vivid, often hilarious a... Read more

Annabel Crabb’s The Wife Drought is a featured title in Random House’s Booktoberfest Showcase, click here for more details. The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb ‘I need a wife’ It’s a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it’s not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It’s a po... Read more

WEEKLY PRIZE DRAW WINNERS – CONGRATULATIONS TO: Booktopia Weekly Prize Draw : $250 Booktopia Gift Voucher Week 1 L.Pettit, Merewether, 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! We’re running competitions, giveawa... Read more

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! We’re running competitions, giveaways and lots of other goodies for you all October. Australia’s biggest publishers have come to the Booktoberfest party with some incre... Read more

WEEKLY PRIZE DRAW WINNERS – CONGRATULATIONS TO: Booktopia Weekly Prize Draw : $250 Booktopia Gift Certificate Week 1 Winner: T. Davis, Churchill, VIC Week 2 Winner: A. McKinnon, Penshurst, NSW Week 3 Winner: G, Thomas, Glengarry, VIC Week 4 Winner: R. Courtney,  Wollstonecraft, NSW Allen & Unwin Prize A collection of 20 gorgeous books, including new fiction, non fiction and children’s... Read more

Yasser Arafat is notoriously credited with having said that a war about religion is like having a fight over who has got the best imaginary friend. As provocative as the statement is to people of faith, it cannot be denied that human beings have long been capable of intense personal relationships with figures who have no objective existence. Whether such a person is called devout or insane depe... Read more

I’ll let you behind the curtain of having the best job in the world. Publishers are awesome, and very generous. So when a book comes along that excites and surprises a publisher, so much so that we only get to look at a quick teaser before release instead of the entire book, we tend to take notice. Mike Tyson’s autobiography Undisputed Truth is one of those books. As the sports nerd... Read more

BOOKS HAVE… made a writer of me. It doesn’t get more important than that as far as I’m concerned. Reading is the most satisfying experience of my life. I spend as much time doing it as I possibly can. Finding the right book is critical. And finding a new author whose work I can respond to is always pure magic. I WRITE BECAUSE… I love writing. I think I became a writer in... Read more