by Akina Hansen | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
The shortlist for the annual Stella Prize has been announced, featuring a range of fiction and non-fiction books, and an anthology of short stories. Women authors Jess Hill, Caro Llewellyn, Favel Parrett, Josephine Rowe, Tara June Winch and Charlotte Wood have all...
by Akina Hansen | Mar 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
A young boy from the UK has received an outpouring of support from authors, bookshops and celebrities once they learned he had been bullied for his love of books. Callum Manning from South Shields had recently started a new school, where fellow pupils discovered his...
by Akina Hansen | Mar 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
The ultimate Australian book festival will be taking place in the quaint country town of Clunes, Victoria this May. The annual Booktown festival, now in its’ 13th year, will occur over the weekend from the 2nd-3rd of May. The festival already has an impressive list...
by Akina Hansen | Mar 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Iranian author Shokoofeh Azar has been longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. The 2017 novel was recently translated to English and released by Wild Dingo Press, a small Australian publisher. This nomination...
by Akina Hansen | Mar 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sarah Epstein of Walker Books Australia has won the Young Adult Fiction Award at the Adelaide Festival for Literature for her debut novel, Small Spaces. The awards are presented every two years during Adelaide Writer’s Week, which is part of the Adelaide Festival. The...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Behrouz Boochani’s award-winning book, No Friend but the Mountains, will be adapted into a film with an expected 2021 release. Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian writer, had his 2018 memoir published while he was kept in detention on Manus Island. He wrote No Friend but the...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code fame will publish his first children’s book this year, bringing in elements of music and technology in order to create a full experience for his new, young readers. Wild Symphony will be released on 1 September in 21 countries, with the...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sphere is set to publish the story of Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who is now 99 years old. Parting Words: 9 lessons for a remarkable life is slated for a December 2020 release. It will tell Ferencz’s life story,...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Australian novel The Trespassers by Meg Mundell has been added to a United Nations (UN) reading list centred on sustainability goals. The UN sustainable development goals are a set of global benchmarks designed to help achieve ‘a better and more sustainable future for...
by Akina Hansen | Feb 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Melting Moments by Anna Goldsworthy ‘Goldsworthy’s prose is delicate, evocative and exquisite, and the minutiae of Ruby’s daily life become an exposition of what it meant to be a woman in pre-feminist Australia.’ – Maureen Eppen Read the review | Buy...
