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 Rouse Hill is located in Rouse Hill Town Centre, and Lynne and her knowledgeable staff have been keeping Rouse Hill readers well-read for over 13 years.

You're a very stable bunch, Booklovers, and we mean that with respect. 

We had every intention of returning to a top ten this week. That was the plan until we looked over the top ten and noticed that beyond the books sitting in first and second place switching order, the books that came in from third to eighth didn't budge. That's quite impressive. 

Want to learn more about how the covers of a best-selling book series are redesigned?

Read on for a guest post from Maria Soler Canton, designer of the new covers for Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series. 

We loved extending our top ten to a top twenty-one last week. In fact, we loved it so much that we've decided to mix it up again and bring you our top twenty best-selling books this week. 

What new and exciting books made the list? Read on to find out!

We know how overwhelming it can be when you're trying to pick a new book to read. Walking into a bookstore is great, without question, but September and October are two of the busiest publishing months of the year and sometimes it can be difficult to find the perfect book in amongst all the new releases. 

If rural fiction, rural fiction, or historical romance are your cup of tea, read on because we have the perfect recommendations for you.

When three powerhouse authors come together to write a new YA book series, you can be fairly sure it will be all kinds of epic and awesome. We're pleased to report that Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti absolutely doesn't disappoint. 

We recently sat down to talk all things zeroes to heroes with these three extraordinary writers. What did they have to say? You'll need to read on to find out...

In recent weeks, our top ten best-selling books posts have focussed on, interestingly enough, the top ten. This week, we're mixing it up. It's been a big month so far for books and publishing and while we had a couple of small changes to the top ten this week, we saw some exciting movement a little lower down in our list in the top 11-21. Read on to see what made it into our top twenty-one this week.

If your friends, siblings, or children are spending hours talking to their laptops, referring to spending time with others as “collabs”, or giving themselves bizarre “challenges” to complete on film -- congratulations, you know an aspiring YouTube star. Although we can’t list them all (a new star is emerging every day!), below we give you a primer on some of the biggest YouTube stars with books already out or books on the way.

Earlier this year at the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) we were honoured to win the award for National Book Retailer of the Year. We were also lucky enough to interview two of Australia's brightest literary talents, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Brooke Davis. 

We're giving one lucky reader the chance to win a full set of the ABIA prize-winning books, so read on to find out how to enter.

Claire Varley's debut novel, The Bit In Between, hit our shelves in August, and it's a book that Claire refers to as her love letter to the Solomons. 

We asked Claire what inspired her to write the book and she's answered that question for us in this special guest post.

To fans of young adult fiction, Patrick Ness is a bit of a legend.

Actually, that might be an understatement. He's a big legend. He has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal twice, and is one of only two authors to win the award in consecutive years (he won in both 2011 and 2012). 

This week, our top five books were the same five books just in a different order, and our eighth and ninth best-selling books swapped positions. Tenth remained the same (you go, Paula Hawkins), and the sixth and seventh best-selling books made their Dymocks top 10 debut.

Father’s Day is this Sunday (6 September), so time is now of the essence if you are still trying to find the perfect present for your dad. To help ease your shopping woes, we’ve put together our top ten recommended titles that any dad is sure to love.