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The winners of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards in the UK have been announced.
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Karim – Riverside Theatres
Karim is set to premiere at Riverside Theatres Parramatta from 25 July – 3 August 2024 and is a new work by acclaimed playwright James Elazzi.
Writer James Elazzi (Lady Tabouli and Sons of Byblos) is co-directing this production with Shane Anthony. ...read more
The Bugalugs Bum Thief – Riverside Theatres
Tim Winton’s beloved children’s novel, The Bugalugs Bum Thief, has been adapted for the stage and is coming to ...
James by Percival Everett – Film Rights Sold
The rights for the recently released Percival Everett book, James, have been sold to Universal Pictures. It has ...
Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us on the big screen
It Ends With Us, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the compelling story of Lily ...
BookPeople 2024 award winners announced
BookPeople, the Association of Australian Booksellers, announced the winners of the 2024 BookPeople Book of the ...
Highway of Lost Hearts – Riverside Theatres
Highway of Lost Hearts by award-winning Darwin playwright Mary Anne Butler is coming to Riverside Theatres from ...
My Freaky Family – Based on Colin Thompson’s ‘The Floods’
Colin Thompson’s book series 'The Floods' is coming to the big screen in the form of a movie called My Freaky ...
Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent coming to Apple TV+
Scott Turow's 1987 book Presumed Innocent, is coming to the small screen with Apple TV+ releasing an eight-part ...
Winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards announced
The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have just been announced with She is the Earth by Ali Cobby ...
New Markus Zusak Coming – Three Wild Dogs and the Truth
Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, has a new non-fiction title due to be released in September ...
2024 British Book Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2024 British Book Awards – or Nibbies – have been announced.
Murdle by G T Karber ...
Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro dies at 92
Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro has died aged 92 on 13 May.
Alice Munro is ...
The 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards Winners
The much-anticipated 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were presented on Thursday, 9 May at a ...
Alexis Wright’s ‘Praiseworthy’ wins 2024 Stella Prize
Stella has announced that Alexis Wright is the winner of the Australian 2024 Stella Prize for her novel ...
Shortlist released for The Women’s Prize 2024
The shortlisted authors and books for the Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced. The list was whittled down ...
Tim Minchin set to release You Don’t Have to Have a Dream
Australian Tim Minchin is set to release his first non-fiction book in late September ...
BookPeople Book of the Year Award 2024 shortlists
The Booksellers' Choice Book of the Year Awards recognises the books that booksellers most enjoyed reading and ...
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy film in the works
Renée Zellweger will be again heading to our cinema screens with a film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s Bridget ...
John Farnham to release his memoir in late 2024
Publisher Hachette Australia has announced it will publish John Farnham's memoir, The Voice Inside 20 October ...
2024 Stella Prize shortlist have been announced
Stella has announced their six outstanding books shortlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize.
The 2024 Stella Prize ...