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Around Australia for Booktoberfest, with a $1000 book giveaway promotion

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

The recipient of the INAUGURAL BOOKTOBERFEST ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR library of your choice giveaway is ……

Filed under: Activity Books, Bargains, Booktoberfest, Booktopia, Children's Books, Coffee Table Books, Non Fiction, Picture Books, Publishing, Travel Writing | Tagged: 25 Years of Australian Georgraphic Photography, Booktoberfest, Booktopia, BRW Fast 100, Chicken Socks, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Eyewitness Travel Guide, Heart & Soul, Ken Duncan, Klutz, Teach Yourself series, The Ugly Truth, Travel Where to Go When, Walker picture books, Walking in the Light | Leave a Comment »

Eucalypts : A celebration by John Wrigley and Murray Fagg

Posted on October 12, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

A superbly illustrated celebration of the beauty and diversity of Australia’s most iconic and best-known trees. ‘The tallest and most stately trees I ever saw in any nobleman’s ground in England cannot excel in beauty those which nature presented to our view.’ First fleet surgeon Arthur Bowes Eucalypts are a familiar part of our landscape [...]

Filed under: Coffee Table Books, Gardening, History | Tagged: Eucalypts : A celebration, John Wrigley, Murray Fagg | Leave a Comment »

The Booktopia Book Guru’s Father’s Day Gift Guide (It’s a little bit funny…)

Posted on August 6, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

It is traditional on Mother’s Day to give mum the day off. She really deserves it, doing so much for us all year round. So we give her breakfast in bed, we make lunch, we do the laundry, we tidy the house, we cook dinner and give her presents. And then on Father’s Day… we [...]

Filed under: Adventure, Biography/Memoir, Coffee Table Books, Crime/Thriller, Fiction, History, Literature, Politics, Pop Science, Travel Writing | Tagged: Father's Day, Funny, Humor, Humour | 1 Comment »

A MasterChef Cookbook in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bookshop

Posted on July 26, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

The MasterChef Finale: it all came down to this… A Guava and Custard Apple Snow Egg …the signature dish of Quay restaurant’s executive chef, Peter Gilmore. I thought it looked like the result of a wayward shot on the back nine, (golf joke) but my family thought it looked intricate, delicate and delicious – I [...]

Filed under: Book retailing trends, Coffee Table Books, cook books, Publishing | Tagged: Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris, Julie Goodwin, MasterChef, Matt Preston | 2 Comments »

Stock Take Clearance Sale

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Booktopia

Our Stock Take Clearance Sale starts officially in a couple of days with our mixed-media advertising blitz BUT… we wanted our Booktopia Blog readers to have the opportunity to buy from us before everyone else hears about it. So you can click here and start shopping in our Clearance Sale right now. As we have [...]

Filed under: Bargains, Biography/Memoir, Children's Fiction, Coffee Table Books, cook books, Crime/Thriller, Fantasy, Fiction, Gift Books, Graphic Novel, Historical Romance, History, Literature, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: Stock Take Clearance Sale | Leave a Comment »

Horrockses Fashion : Off-the-peg style in the 40s and 50s by Christine Boydel

Posted on June 9, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Horrockses Fashion Tells the story of this iconic British fashion label and its role in the history of ready to wear fashion in the postwar decades. Horrockses Fashions was one of most respected ready-to-wear labels of the late 40s and 50s. Founded in 1946, the company concentrated on the production of quality womenswear, beach clothes, [...]

Filed under: Biography/Memoir, Coffee Table Books, History, Non Fiction | Tagged: Horrockses Fashion, The Golden Age of Couture | Leave a Comment »

And Now… A Message for the Men of Australia.

Posted on April 1, 2010 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

Married men of Australia, don’t you see? Wife’s Day must be taken more seriously than Mother’s Day. A mother is predisposed to forgive the faults of her son. A wife, however, never forgives or forgets.

Filed under: Biography/Memoir, Coffee Table Books, cook books, Crime/Thriller, Design and Style, Fiction, Gift Books, Historical Romance, Literature, Non Fiction | Tagged: Mother's Day | 1 Comment »

Booktopia Buzz, the best of April and Stephenie Meyer’s new Twilight book, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

We’ve got the new Stephenie Meyer novella and all the April Booktopia Buzz titles listed here.

Filed under: Booktopia, Coffee Table Books, cook books, Crime/Thriller, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Non Fiction, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: Angelologi, ANZAC Day, Beatrice and Virgil, Booktopia Buzz, Danielle Trussoni, Dead Men's Dust, House Rules, Jodi Picoult, light of lucia, Matt Hilton, Mother's Day, Slash and Burn, Stephenie Meyer, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Yann Martel | Leave a Comment »

Light of Lucia with Luciana Sampogna – cooking with love

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Toni Whitmont

You couldn’t get a more enticing book launch than this – an invitation to a Tuscan villa where you could spend several hours cooking an Italian banquet from scratch, before sitting down to eat and drink with colleagues. And the afternoon at Luciana Sampogna’s (Light of Lucia) Cucina Italiana was everything that was promised – and more!

Filed under: Booktopia, Coffee Table Books, cook books, Gift Books, Non Fiction | Tagged: Cucina Italiana, light of lucia, Luciana Sampogna | 2 Comments »

Booktopia’s Christmas Clearance Sale – Our Biggest Yet

Posted on December 24, 2009 by John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru

starting this afternoon all of our bargain books will be further reduced

Filed under: Bargains, Biography/Memoir, Children's Fiction, Coffee Table Books, Crime/Thriller, Design and Style, Fantasy, Fiction, Gift Books, Literary Prizes, Literature, Non Fiction, Romance, Young Adult | Tagged: A.L.Kennedy, Agatha Christie, Alexander Kent, Alice Sebold, Andrea Camilleri, Anita Shreve, Ann Patchett, Anne Enright, Anne Tyler, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Bargains, Bernard Cornwell, Carol Shields, Catherine Cookson, Cathy Kelly, Chris Ryan, Christmas, Clearance, Colin Dexter, Danielle Steel, Dean Koontz, Dick Francis, Douglas Kennedy, Edward St Aubyn, Greg Isles, Henning Mankell, Hilary Mantel, Ian Rankin, Irene Nemirovsky, Jack Higgins, James Patterson, Janet Evanovitch, Joanne Harris, Johanna Lindsey, Karin Slaughter, Kathy Reichs, Katie Fforde, Lindsay Davis, Low Prices, Marian Keyes, Michael Connelly, Minette Walters, Ngaio Marsh, Patrick O’Brian, Paullina Simons, Peter Robinson, Peter Temple, Philip Roth, RD Wingfield, Reduced, Robert Crais, Roddy Doyle, Sale, Sheila O’Flanagan, Sidney Sheldon, Thomas Keneally, Tom Wolfe, Tony Parsons, Val McDermid, Virginia Andrews | Leave a Comment »

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