Sarah Wilson - bestselling author and entrepreneur, intrepid solver of problems and investigator of how to live a better life. She has also been an anxiety sufferer her whole life.

Here she discusses her new book First, We Make the Beast Beautiful - a new story about anxiety. Find out more -- http://bit.ly/2mkdSom

Sarah pulls at the thread of accepted definitions of anxiety, and unravels the notion that it is a difficult, dangerous disease that must be medicated into submission. Ultimately, she re-frames anxiety as a spiritual quest rather than a burdensome affliction, a state of yearning that will lead us closer to what really matters.

Sarah Wilson - bestselling author and entrepreneur, intrepid solver of problems and investigator of how to live a better life. She has also been an anxiety sufferer her whole life.

Here she discusses her new book First, We Make the Beast Beautiful - a new story about anxiety. Find out more -- http://bit.ly/2mkdSom

Sarah pulls at the thread of accepted definitions of anxiety, and unravels the notion that it is a difficult, dangerous disease that must be medicated into submission. Ultimately, she re-frames anxiety as a spiritual quest rather than a burdensome affliction, a state of yearning that will lead us closer to what really matters.

Caroline Baum is a long-standing friend and colleague of Booktopia. She is a respected journalist and presenter. She has worked for the BBC, ABC, Time Life Books, Vogue magazine (UK and Australia), was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine and the Editorial Director of Booktopia. She has been a judge of the Stella Prize, the Ned Kelly and Kibble Awards.

Caroline Baum's poignant and gripping memoir is for anyone who has felt the pressure of being at the fulcrum of a seesaw, the focus of all eyes and expectations - torn between love and fear, obedience and rebellion, duty and the longing to escape. In exploring what being a Good Daughter means and why it can be so difficult, Only uncovers truths that offer readers deep emotional insight...

Find out more -- http://bit.ly/2lbRsIp

Caroline Baum is a long-standing friend and colleague of Booktopia. She is a respected journalist and presenter. She has worked for the BBC, ABC, Time Life Books, Vogue magazine (UK and Australia), was the founding editor of Good Reading magazine and the Editorial Director of Booktopia. She has been a judge of the Stella Prize, the Ned Kelly and Kibble Awards.

Caroline Baum's poignant and gripping memoir is for anyone who has felt the pressure of being at the fulcrum of a seesaw, the focus of all eyes and expectations - torn between love and fear, obedience and rebellion, duty and the longing to escape. In exploring what being a Good Daughter means and why it can be so difficult, Only uncovers truths that offer readers deep emotional insight...

Find out more -- http://bit.ly/2lbRsIp

A rollicking fantasy-adventure by the master of children's speculative fiction. Talking dogs. Mischievous wizards. An evil stepstepfather. Loads and loads of toads. Such is the life of a Frogkisser.

Listen to Booktopia's Bron and Sarah chat to Garth Nix about his new book Frogkisser!

The book --http://www.booktopia.com.au/frogkisser--garth-nix/prod9781760293512.html

A rollicking fantasy-adventure by the master of children's speculative fiction. Talking dogs. Mischievous wizards. An evil stepstepfather. Loads and loads of toads. Such is the life of a Frogkisser.

Listen to Booktopia's Bron and Sarah chat to Garth Nix about his new book Frogkisser!

The book --http://www.booktopia.com.au/frogkisser--garth-nix/prod9781760293512.html

Candice Fox chats with Booktopia's Sarah McDuling about her new novel Crimson Lake!

Crimson Lake --> http://bit.ly/2kdZBd0

Read more on the story:

12.46: Thirteen-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop

12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her

12.52: The girl is missing...

Six minutes – that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of Claire’s abduction, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.

Amanda Pharrell knows what it’s like to be public enemy number one. Maybe it’s her murderous past that makes her so good as a private investigator, tracking lost souls in the wilderness. Her latest target, missing author Jake Scully, has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own – so she enlists help from the one person in town more hated than she is: Ted Conkaffey.

But the residents of Crimson Lake are watching the pair’s every move. And for Ted, a man already at breaking point, this town is offering no place to hide...

Candice Fox chats with Booktopia's Sarah McDuling about her new novel Crimson Lake!

Crimson Lake --> http://bit.ly/2kdZBd0

Read more on the story:

12.46: Thirteen-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop

12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her

12.52: The girl is missing...

Six minutes – that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. Accused but not convicted of Claire’s abduction, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake.

Amanda Pharrell knows what it’s like to be public enemy number one. Maybe it’s her murderous past that makes her so good as a private investigator, tracking lost souls in the wilderness. Her latest target, missing author Jake Scully, has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own – so she enlists help from the one person in town more hated than she is: Ted Conkaffey.

But the residents of Crimson Lake are watching the pair’s every move. And for Ted, a man already at breaking point, this town is offering no place to hide...

Kathryn Heyman chats about the inspiration for her new novel Storm and Grace, a riveting thriller about the competitive world of free diving in the tradition of Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep.

Kathryn Heyman chats about the inspiration for her new novel Storm and Grace, a riveting thriller about the competitive world of free diving in the tradition of Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep.