by Akina Hansen | Mar 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
Chris Hammer’s Scrublands is set for the small screen with Stan and Nine having announced that production is underway in Victoria. The series will star Luke Arnold, Bella Heathcote, Jay Ryan, Zane Ciarma, Adam Zwar, Victoria Thaine, Robert Taylor, Stacy...
by Akina Hansen | Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
The London Library is a private subscription-based lending library which was founded in 1841 by Thomas Carlyle. Many famous writers frequented the institution, from Charles Darwin, T S Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens and finally Bram Stoker,...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
A rare 1631 Bible referred to as the ‘Wicked’ Bible was discovered in New Zealand last year. It’s referred to as the ‘Wicked’ Bible for omitting the word ‘not’ from its seventh commandment, reading instead ‘thou shalt commit adultery’....
by Akina Hansen | Feb 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Following Terry Pratchett’s passing in 2015, friend and collaborator Neil Gaiman claimed in an interview that the author wanted his unfinished works and even his computers flattened by a steamroller. Two years later, Rob Wilkins, the manager of Pratchett’s estate,...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Over a decade ago, in an Alice Springs Dymocks, author Stephen King was mistaken for a vandal. When a customer came across King signing one of his books, they didn’t recognise the author, and alerted the store manager. King was gone by the time the manager arrived,...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
From 1982 to 1989, a group of Stasi majors, propaganda officers and border guards got together once every four weeks at the House of Culture in the Stasi’s paramilitary wing in East Berlin. These Stasi men did not meet up to discuss military campaigns but rather to...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Moby Dick author Herman Melville, for some reason, absolutely hated The Romance of Yachting: Voyage the First by Joseph C Hart. In a correspondence with editor Evart A Duyckinck, Melville commented, ‘Here’s a book positively turned wrong side out […] on my...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
According to Sylvia Plath’s mother, Aurelia Plath, her daughter had plans for a sequel to her novel, The Bell Jar. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a semi-autobiographical novel that follows Esther Greenwood as she suffers a deep depression. Sylvia shared with...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK. After the...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Novelist and poet, Gertrude Stein, attended Radcliffe College where she studied philosophy and psychology under William James. Elizabeth Sprigge notes in her book Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work, that the two became friends. In one of James’s final exams, Gertrude...
