Our annual vote to discover Australia’s Favourite Author is here again! Over 100,000 Australians had their say last year, and this year will be even bigger! It’s your chance to champion your favourite Australian authors and vote them through to next week’s final round of voting. You can vote for as many authors as you like, with the poll closing at midnight tonight. Remember, ... Read more

When I was 12 I wanted to play cricket for Australia... Read more

I spent quite a lot of time on planes this month, which meant I had plenty of time for reading, the best thing about spending so much time in airports and hotels! Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Fiona Barton author of The Widow Ten Terrifying Questions ____________ 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? Born in Cambridge, UK and raised in the Fenlands of East Anglia, in a village called Burwell. Caught the bus every day to school – St Mary’s Convent, Cambridge – where I was taught by... Read more

Nominations for Australia’s Favourite Author are now open! The poll that stops the nation is back! We’re asking you to tell us your favourite Australia Author! Novelists, picture book authors, historians, biographers, all authors are now all open for nomination! You see, January at Booktopia is the month of Australian Stories, an entire month dedicated to celebrating books by Austra... Read more

In July 2015, as the debate over Adam Goodes being booed at AFL games raged and got ever more heated and ugly, Stan Grant wrote a short but powerful piece for The Guardian that went viral, not only in Australia but right around the world, shared over 100,000 times on social media. His was a personal, passionate and powerful response to racism in Australian and the sorrow, shame, anger and hards... Read more