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

At the recent Australian Book Expo, we set up a camera and asked Booktopians to review their favourite book. The response was amazing, with so many wonderful book lovers keen to chat about their favourite reads. Here are some of the best. Enjoy! Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson Click here for more details Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth Click here for more details Colorless Ts... Read more

In August we gave you the chance to enter our Kids Month promotions! Lots and lots of goodies were up for grabs! And the lucky winners are… The Peppa Pig Competition – S. Moors, Mosman Park, WA The Walker Picture Book Showcase Competition – E. Serisier, New Farm, QLD Clementine Rose Competition – Y. Tanuwidjaja, Melbourne, VIC Slaves of Socorro Competition – M. Mah... Read more

Could he do it? That’s the question on everyone’s lips as Richard Flanagan continues his surge towards a Man Booker Prize for his beautiful novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Flanagan’s masterpiece was controversially overlooked for this year’s Miles Franklin. 2010 winner Howard Jacobson is joined by fellow UK writers Ali Smith and Neel Mukherjee, with the new inte... Read more

A couple of awards that weren’t announced at Friday night’s ABIA Awards were the ABIA & Booktopia People’s Choice Awards. We asked you to vote for your favourite fiction and children’s books, and we received a huge response. Thanks to everyone who voted! After thousands of votes cast, we’re proud to announce the winners of the inaugural ABIA & Booktopia Peo... Read more

We are so proud to announce that Booktopia was awarded Best Online Retailer at the 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney on Friday night. The award served to recognise ‘the retailer that best demonstrated excellence and innovation in the marketplace and that supported the local industry’. In a evening dedicated to celebrating the Australian Book Industry, Graeme Simsion’s c... Read more

Ten years ago Tony Nash started Booktopia on a $10 per day budget. It took 3 days to sell the first book. Now we sell one book every 10 seconds and employee 70 people. Over 900,000 Australians have bought from Booktopia over the years. Each and every customer should be very proud that we have been able to donate over $300K worth of books in the last year as well as be the major sponsor of Write... Read more

This month we’re back with the poll that stops the nation, as we ask you who is Australia’s Favourite Novelist for 2014. Booktopia is Australia’s Local Bookstore, Australia’s truly locally owned and operated online bookstore, full of people who love books and more importantly, Australian books. January at Booktopia is the month of Australian Stories. To celebrate, we need your... Read more

Caroline Baum’s author interviews have been one of the biggest highlights of our year at Booktopia. Join us as we revisit the best interviews of 2013, and perhaps discover a new favourite author along the way. Writing a memoir is something of a balancing act; trying to reveal as much as possible, without oversharing or overexposing those involved. It also requires a great deal of vulnerab... Read more

If you love a sale, then Boxing Day is for you, and with Booktopia you can get a great deal from the comfort of your couch and a plate of Christmas leftovers. Our massive Christmas to New Year Sale is now on, with thousands of books at up to 95% off. Don’t miss out on huge discounts on big names like Bryce Courtenay, James Patterson and Danielle Steel. Looking for your next great read? Lo... Read more