Fairie-ality Style: Inspiration from Nature

Want to know when a book is seriously good? It is when a bookseller actually pays money to add it to their home collection. Enter Fairie-ality Style!

Stitches : In the top ten for 2009

If you follow this blog you will already know how much I love Stitches: A Memoir by David Small. I was most interested to see this week that the US Publishers Weekly magazine has chosen it as one of the 10 books that really stands out from everything else published this year.

Qantas – the death of an iconic brand?

Finally, we are allowed to talk about this book, and you can bet your life that QANTAS won’t be happy.

Fast movers from November’s Booktopia Buzz

The November Booktopia Buzz is up on the site and I always like to have a look at it about 6 hours after we’ve sent it to our customers, just to see what is really moving…So, any guesses for the top five for November from the latest Buzz?

Business Biographies

What a feast right now in terms of Australian business biographies – and what great stories!

Signed copies of Paul Barry’s James Packer story

How about those excerpts from the James Packer story that were all over the press over the weekend? The embargo is lifted this morning on Paul Barry’s Who Wants to be a Billionaire? and our stock, signed by the author, will be whisked over to the warehouse this afternoon.

an Australian services guide for the ageing and carers

This book is brilliant and I don’t know why it hasn’t been written before. I can think of half a dozen people in my immediate circle who would fall on this with gratitude as they try and navigate their way through the minefield of options and institutions when it comes to trying to get appropriate support for the ageing and carers.

Susan Duncan’s A Life on Pittwater – in a word, stunning

A Life on Pittwater is very warm and vibrant . This book is beautiful to look at, a treat to read, and an absolute celebration of community.

The Julie Julia Project: Something to get your teeth into

I have absolutely no idea of what is going on in the world this week because rather than listening to the radio in the car, I have spent all my vehicular hours on the Julie and Julia Project

dogs v cats: BTG weighs in

OK, it pains me to put this out there but have a look at this very cute clip put together by none other than Bradley Trevor Grieve extolling the virtues of dogs.