Last week Booktopia was lucky enough to have Nikki Gemmell in to chat about her latest novel I Take You and sign some copies for lucky customers. I Take You completes the trilogy of books that began with the worldwide bestseller The Bride Stripped Bare. We also filmed a short video with Nikki, with our own John Purcell trying to think of an idea for the video and Nikki…..well…..you&... Read more

What I do get to do however, is to sample a LOT of books, and I get to fall in love with a few. And the few that take me to a different place, more than make up for the rest of the 450 on that list that made me want to go out and re-plant the trees. So here they are, my top picks for 2011, for those of you for whom Morrissey and Reilly just don't cut it. Read more

In 2003, Nikki Gemmell created waves when The Bride Stripped Bare became a literary sensation with its raw unflinching depiction of female sexuality. Now she returns with another tour de force addressing the questions of what is intimacy and whether it is ever really possible to know another person. It is at once a manifesto of married mothers everywhere and a highly personal story of one woman... Read more

Apparently, some women like sex. They like the idea of it. They like having it. They even do ‘it’ as often as they can. I know! Imagine that? Did you know that some women think about sex all the time? It’s true. You just don’t see them having sex everywhere because, well, some people frown upon such exhibitionism. They have even enacted laws preventing such things. But t... Read more