by Akina Hansen | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
The rights for the recently released Percival Everett book, James, have been sold to Universal Pictures. It has been announced that Percival Everett himself will write the screenplay and Steven Spielberg will executive produce the project and New Zealand filmmaker...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
It Ends With Us, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the compelling story of Lily Bloom (Blake Lively), a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. ...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
BookPeople, the Association of Australian Booksellers, announced the winners of the 2024 BookPeople Book of the Year Awards, at a gala dinner held in Melbourne. The event celebrated the literary community, recognising exceptional books across various categories...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Highway of Lost Hearts by award-winning Darwin playwright Mary Anne Butler is coming to Riverside Theatres from 14-15 June. Highway of Lost Hearts was first published in 2014 and is based on a solo trip Butler took from Darwin to NSW. This production is directed by...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Colin Thompson’s book series ‘The Floods’ is coming to the big screen in the form of a movie called My Freaky Family. From the opening chase sequence to the musical finale, this animated feature is full of thrills, spills, and spells. Betty Flood finds...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Scott Turow’s 1987 book Presumed Innocent, is coming to the small screen with Apple TV+ releasing an eight-part limited series. It stars and is executive produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Anne Sewitsky and Greg Yaitanes. The cast also includes Ruth...
by Akina Hansen | May 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2024 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards have just been announced with She is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann taking out Book of the Year. The outstanding winning works were selected by 32 judges across 12 prize categories from 834 entries. NSW...
by Akina Hansen | May 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, has a new non-fiction title due to be released in September 2024. Three Wild Dogs and the Truth is touted by the publisher to be a tender, motley and exquisitely written memoir about the human need for both connection and...
by Akina Hansen | May 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2024 British Book Awards – or Nibbies – have been announced. Murdle by G T Karber triumphing as both Overall Winner and Non-fiction Lifestyle Book of the Year. G T Karber grew up in Arkansas, the son of a judge and a civil rights attorney. He...
by Akina Hansen | May 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Canadian writer and Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro has died aged 92 on 13 May. Alice Munro is an acclaimed Canadian short story writer who is best known for her collections which depict the every day lives of small town folk in Canada. In 2013 she became the...
