by Akina Hansen | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Author Emily Bitto has won the $20 000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award for her novel Wild Abandon. The Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award recognises the best original book published in Australia the previous calendar year that deals with ‘any aspect...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Journalist Bob Woodward releases eight hours of recorded interviews with former president, Donald Trump, in his new audiobook called The Trump Tapes. Woodward writes for the Washington Post where his coverage of the Watergate Scandal brought down former President...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel The Shards will be released in January 2023. Ellis is the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho which also received an acclaimed film adaptation that starred Christian Bale and Reese Witherspoon. His upcoming...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Book Fair Australia is the first multi-genre book fair in Sydney and is an exciting opportunity for independent and traditional authors and publishers to celebrate books, showcase titles, and connect with readers across all genres. Join Book Fair Australia for a...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Long before A Streetcar Named Desire, a 16-year-old Tennessee Williams entered (and won) a writing contest posing as a disgruntled divorcee. The contest topic was ‘Can a good wife be a good sport?’, so Williams took on the persona of a man scorned by his former...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Author Molly Schmidt has won the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award for her manuscript Salt River Road. The City of Fremantle Hungerford Award is a biennial prize that is awarded to an emerging West Australian writer for their first unpublished work of fiction...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with the ARA Group, have announced the winners of the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize for the Adult and Children and Young Adult (CYA) Category. The ARA Historical Novel Prize is a literary prize that...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize. Shehan Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan author to win the 50 000 pound ($86 000) Booker Prize. He was born in Colombo and is the multi-award winning author of Chinaman: The...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
When Herman Melville, author of the classic Moby Dick, died at the age of 72 in 1891, his obituary was typo-marred and exceedingly short. At the time of his passing, his last novel The Confidence-Man had been published over three decades prior. Many of the outlets of...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 2020, over 200 books worth more than $4.5 million (AU) were found buried under the floor of a rural property in Romania. According to the Associate Press, the haul, which included first editions of works by Galileo and Isaac Newton, are alleged to have been...
