by Akina Hansen | Oct 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
An inscribed first edition copy of Emma by Jane Austen was bought for £375 000, making it the most expensive of the author’s works ever sold. Peter Harrington, the London rare book dealers, said the first edition copy was unique as its the only Austen novel with...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Small Press Network has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Book of the Year Award, (formerly the Most Underrated Book of the Year Award). The Book of the Year Award seeks to recognise some of the best and most ground-breaking Australian books. The Book of the...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
The National Book Foundation have announced their finalists for the 2022 Book Awards across the following five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. The five winners of the US awards will be announced on 16...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Head to your local bookshop on Saturday 8 October 2022 for Love Your Bookshop Day. Love Your Bookshop Day is an annual celebration of everything local bookshops do. From curating a great selection of books to creating events to celebrate authors, readers and upcoming...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with Australia’s leading essential building and infrastructure services provider ARA Group, have announced the Shortlists for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The ARA Historical Novel Prize is a...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize winning author of the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy, has died at the age of 70. Mantel’s beloved novel, Wolf Hall, was published in 2009, and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, was published in 2012. Both books won the Booker...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
A literary puzzle that went unsolved for almost 100 years was figured out again. Cain’s Jawbone was published in 1934 and envisioned by Edward Powys Mathers. The puzzle invited readers to reorder its 100 pages, with over 32 million possible combinations, and solve the...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The shortlist for the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award has been announced with four Western Australian writers in the running. The City of Fremantle Hungerford Award is in its 32nd year. The award is given biennially to a fiction or narrative non-fiction...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Modern e-readers didn’t emerge until 2007. However, the first ‘e-book’ is technically dated back to 1971. Technologist Michael Stern used a Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois to type up the Declaration of Independence. He then...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
The 2022 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced. The Booker Prize recognises and celebrates single works of fiction published in the UK in English. Six titles were shortlisted and were chose from a longlist of 13. Chosen novels had to be published in the UK or...
