by Akina Hansen | Jun 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Holly Ringland’s The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is coming to the small screen. A young girl loses both her parents in a tragic event, and is taken to live with her grandmother on a flower farm. Growing up, Alice learns the language of Australian native flowers...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
The television adaptation of Bonnie Garmus’ book Lessons in Chemistry has received an air date according to Deadline. The first two episodes will premiere on Apple TV+ on 13 October. The novel follows Elizabeth Zott, a chemist in the early 1960s who is forced...
by Akina Hansen | Jun 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Anthony Trollope was a well-known English novelist and a master of societal observations. His works include The American Senator and the ‘Chronicles of Barsetshire’ series among others, of which many have been adapted for the screen. Trollope was only 67...
by Akina Hansen | May 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Katherine Allum has won the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award for her novel The Skeleton House. The Fogarty Literary Award is for Western Australian writers aged 18 to 35. Allum has received a cash prize of $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press for her...
by Akina Hansen | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2023 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced with RecipeTin Eats: Dinner taking home the book of the year award. First established in 2001, the ABIAs showcase Australia’s best authors and exciting new talent. The winners were...
by Akina Hansen | May 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2023 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards have been announced. Debra Dank’s We Come With This Place won the Book of the Year, Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction. Indigenous Writers’ Prize and UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing....
by Akina Hansen | May 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is set for a film adaptation with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs set to star in the film, Deadline reports. The Salt Path by Winn was first published in 2019 and tells the incredible true story of the author and her...
by Akina Hansen | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association announced the winners of the Nebula Awards with Babel by R F Kuang winning best novel. Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R F Kuang is an epic historical...
by Akina Hansen | May 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
A letter written by John Steinbeck in 1958 to his love-struck son sold for $46 864 AUD at an auction in Boston, MA. John Steinbeck was an American novelist and Nobel Prize winner. He has many notable works including Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. In the...
by Akina Hansen | May 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Limberlost has won Arnott The Age fiction book of the year, an award he won two years ago for his second novel, The Rain Heron. Anott said he was ‘pretty blown away’ by winning. Arnott’s writing has understated elegance and lilts to poetic rhythms. Its...
