by Akina Hansen | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Conservative commentator and satirist, PJ O’Rourke has died at age 74 of complications from lung cancer. O’Rourke was well known for his dissection of US politics and culture and held various roles over his career, which included working as the editor in chief of...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lianne Moriarty’s novel, The Husband’s Secret is set for a film adaptation, according to deadline. Kat Coiro is set to direct Sony Pictures’ The Husband’s Secret which is based on Liane Moriarty’s number one New York Times bestselling novel. The novel,...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The new TV series ‘Reacher’ which is based on Lee’s Childs mystery series has been renewed for a second season just days after premiering on February 4. Alan Ritchson plays the character Jack Reacher, the ex-military policeman in Lee Child’s popular mystery-thriller...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Author R A Spratt has revealed the process behind the cover of her latest book in the popular Friday Barnes series, Friday Barnes 10: Undercover, which follows young detective Friday as she solves a mystery in Norway. According to Spratt the iconic pose in Edvard...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has announced its full program for the 2022 festival which will be held across six days from March 5 – March 10 and will include a total of 165 guests. 92 additional local, national and international authors will be added to the previously...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Arts Council have named award winning writer Colm Tóibin as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2022 – 2024. He will take over Sebastian Barry, who succeeded inaugural laureate Anne Enright. Colm Tóibin responded to his new appointment, stating: ‘I am honoured...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Australian independent booksellers have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. The Indie Book Awards were established in 2008 and recognize and celebrate the best in Australian writing. The 24 shortlisted books have been nominated by indie booksellers...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Love Nature and the ABC have commissioned author and conservationist Tim Winton to write and narrate a three-part docuseries on the Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia. The series will explore the areas biodiversity, history and indigenous cultural history and...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Joelle Taylor has won the 2021 TS Eliot poetry prize for her collection C+nto & Othered Poems which looks at butch lesbian counterculture in the 1990s. The collection is Taylour’s fourth and is part-memoir and part-conjecture, and looks at the communities women...
by Akina Hansen | Dec 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
One of the smallest books in the world sold at an auction in Brussels for approximately AU $6 500 (£3500). The book titled The Lord’s Prayer, is leather bound and measures at 5mm by 5mm and contains various translations of the Lord’s Prayer in Dutch, English, American...
