Booktopia Buzz: Two Booker Winners and our most beautiful Booktoberfest collection yet

Signed copies from Charlotte Wood, Elliot Perlman, Heather Rose, Favel Parrett and more [Booktopia Buzz]( Dear {NAME}, I have two things to tell you and both are very exciting! First Thing: there are two (TWO!) 2019 Booker Prize winners! The judges decided to split this year’s prize between Magaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, and Bernardine Evaristo’s love song to modern Britain and black womanhood, Girl, Woman, Other. Second Thing: [Booktoberfest]( is on right now. It’s our celebration of the bounty of great books that arrive at this time of year. All my favourites are here, lots of them are signed and all of them are discounted. Plus, one lucky reader will win a year’s worth of books!* Happy Reading and Happy Booktoberfest! Ben Hunter Fiction Category Manager [*Ts & Cs apply]( 2019's Joint Booker Winners [Girl, Woman, Other]( [by Bernardine Evaristo]( [Girl, Woman, Other]( Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters... [The Testaments]( [by Margaret Atwood]( [The Testaments]( In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred? [RRP $42.99]( [$29.95]( [Save 30%]( Booktoberfest Australian Highlights [Damascus]( [From the author of The Slap]( [by Christos Tsiolkas]( [Damascus]( Christos Tsiolkas' stunning new novel Damascus is a work of soaring ambition and achievement, of immense power and epic scope, taking as its subject nothing less than events... [RRP $32.99]( [$24.50]( [Save 26%]( [The Weekend]( [Signed Copies Available]( [by Charlotte Wood]( [The Weekend]( The brilliant new novel from Charlotte Wood, acclaimed author of The Natural Way of Things. Four older women have a lifelong friendship of the best kind: loving, practical, frank and steadfast... [RRP $29.99]( [$22.50]( [Save 25%]( [Bruny]( [Signed Copies Available]( [by Heather Rose]( [Bruny]( The brilliant and explosive new novel from the author of the award-winning The Museum of Modern Love. A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East... [RRP $32.99]( [$24.50]( [Save 26%]( [Maybe the Horse Will Talk]( [Signed Copies Available]( [by Elliot Perlman]( [Maybe the Horse Will Talk]( What if the only way to keep your job was to antagonise your boss? Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer... [RRP $32.99]( [$24.50]( [Save 26%]( [There Was Still Love]( [Signed Copies Available]( [by Favel Parrett]( [There Was Still Love]( The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author of Past the Shallows and When the Night Comes. A tender and masterfully told story of memory... [RRP $29.99]( [$22.50]( [Save 25%]( [Paris Savages]( [Signed Copies Available]( [by Katherine Johnson]( [Paris Savages]( Fraser Island, 1882. The population of the Badtjala people is in sharp decline following a run of brutal massacres. When German scientist Louis Müller offers to sail three Badtjala people – Bonny, Jurano and Dorondera... [RRP $32.99]( [$24.50]( [Save 26%]( [Field of Poppies]( [The Sea and Us]( [The Death of Jesus]( [The World That We Knew]( [Join the celebration this Booktoberfest!]( Booktoberfest International Highlights [The Dutch House]( [by Ann Patchett]( [The Dutch House]( A masterpiece from the Orange Prize-winning, New York Times number one bestselling author of Commonwealth and Bel Canto: a story of love, family, sacrifice, and the power of place. [RRP $29.99]( [$22.50]( [Save 25%]( [Akin]( [by Emma Donoghue]( [Akin]( Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his long-awaited first trip back to Nice... [RRP $29.99]( [$22.50]( [Save 25%]( [The Water Dancer]( [by Ta-Nehisi Coates]( [The Water Dancer]( Stunning and profound, the highly anticipated debut novel from the award-winning, bestselling author of We Were Eight Years in Power - a story of bondage, freedom, and love. [RRP $32.99]( [$24.75]( [Save 25%]( [Grand Union]( [by Zadie Smith]( [Grand Union]( The first ever collection of stories from the bestselling and beloved author of Swing Time and White Teeth In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. [RRP $32.99]( [$24.50]( [Save 26%]( [Olive, Again]( [by Elizabeth Strout]( [Olive, Again]( Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older, navigating the second half of her life as she comes to terms with the changes... [RRP $29.99]( [$22.50]( [Save 25%]( [The Confession]( [by Jessie Burton]( [The Confession]( The sensational new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse. One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls... 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