Bookstores are an essential component in every community, and every few weeks on the Bookmarked Blog we are going to visit one of our stores and hear what the staff have been reading and loving lately.

Dymocks Doncaster is located in Westfield Doncaster, and Chevelle and her team have put together some cracking recommendations to help get your spring reading sorted.

We know there are many of you out there who enjoy watching scary movies, but we're here today to talk about the unforgiving horror of reading a truly scary book. 

We asked some of our well-read horror fans for their top Halloween book picks.

This is our last top ten list for October. Tomorrow, our November catalogue is launched and *spoiler alert* it's Christmas themed. 

Yes, whether you like it or not, with less than two months until the big day the silly season has arrived for another year. We've got some very exciting things to share with you between now and December 25, but for the moment let's look at what made our best seller list this week.

Australia's first season of the The Bachelorette finished tonight, but that doesn't mean you need to let go of that bachelorette feeling! We've compiled a list of our five favourite fictional bachelorettes to help keep that 'I'm in the pursuit of true love' journey alive.

If you've loved watching Sam Frost find the man of her dreams (her words, not ours), these fictional bachelorettes will delight you in their quest for romance.

Phil Cook, the Group General Manager at Dymocks Carindale and Dymocks Garden City in Queensland, read The Lake House by Kate Morton a few months ago. 

To celebrate its publication, we would like to share with you Phil's thoughtful and detailed review of Kate Morton's latest historical saga. 

If you've ever been fascinated by the interests and, more importantly, the purchasing power of millennials, our top ten this week should be of great interest to you. 

Keep reading to find out what our Booklovers have been buying across the country this week.

In any given month, it's likely that you could visit your local cinema and watch a film or two that have been adapted from books. Adapting books to films has been all the rage in Hollywood for many years now, and book-to-film franchises dominate the box office. 

We look at some of the books in the top 51 kids' books that have experienced on-screen success.

In a bid to form a well-read opinion about who the potential Man Booker Prize winner could be for 2015, Kate Procko, our colleague and resident word warrior, took it upon herself to read all of the shortlisted titles prior to the announcement of the winner.

Read on to find out which books Kate loved, Kate didn’t love as much, and of course which book Kate thinks will win the coveted prize in 2015.

This week, our top ten was all about new editions of old favourites.

There were, of course, some of the usual suspects (also known as adult colouring books), but we were very excited to see some of the biggest names in children's and young adult fiction in the list.

Carole Wilkinson's new book Atmospheric: The Burning Story of Climate Change was released last month and is a perfect non-fiction resource for teens who want to know more about climate change but aren't sure where to start. 

Carole was kind enough to write a guest post for the Bookmarked Blog about how teenagers can get their voices heard, especially if you're under 18 and can't yet vote. 

When news broke last month that a special tenth anniversary edition of Twilight would be released in October with some surprise additional content, the office went slightly mad trying to guess what the new content would be.

Our Digital and Community Coordinator takes a look at where Twilight has taken us in ten years, and what readers can expect from Life and Death.

Wow, October, hey? That happened quickly! 

If the realisation that it's already October is terrifying enough for you, look away while we tell you that Christmas is only a cool 79 days away. Happy Tuesday! 

Jamie Oliver recently took aim at the sugar industry in his documentary Jamie's Sugar Rush; however, Australians have been leading the anti-sugar crusade for nearly a decade.

We've compiled a brief history of Australia's most recognisable anti-sugar advocates, their books, their history, and why they're so passionate about living a sugar-free life.