by Akina Hansen | Nov 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
On the back of her Booker-prize winning The Testaments, Margaret Atwood will be emarking on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in February and March. The events will be ‘in conversation’, where the audience will join Atwood as she reflects on her writing...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you’ve been waiting your entire life to see Gollum haunt an old Guy Pearce, your time has come! The BBC have given us a glimpse of their upcoming three-part adaptation of Charles Dickens’ timless novel A Christmas Carol. Featuring Guy Pearce as the...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Clive Barker’s classic 80s horror anthology Books of Blood is getting the small screen treatment courtesy of The Orville and Star Trek writer Brannon Braga. Books of Blood is the collection of short stories that put Clive Barker on the map, resulting in...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Robert Drewe has won the 2019 Colin Roderick Literary Award with his short story compilation The True Colour of the Sea. The Colin Roderick Award is one of Australia’s oldest literary prizes, originally founded in 1967, with the aim to honur the best original...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
In the past few days you may have read about a controversial new book which threatens to peel back the curtain on the tumultuous Trump presidency. If that sounds like a cracking read, you’re in luck; Hachette Australia have acquired distribution rights for the...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
A number items from the estate of Australian author Colleen McCollough will be auctioned Wednesday 30 October at the Hughenden in Woolahra, NSW. Items up for sale include first drafts of Tim and The Thorn Birds, as well as the Royal typewriter she wrote her novels...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
The winners of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony in Canberra today, recognising works published in Australia that contribute to our country’s cultural and intellectual life. The winners of each category were awarded...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you found yourself disappointed by how the 2007 film version of The Golden Compass (aka Northern Lights) treated Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy series, your prayers have finally been answered! The BBC and HBO have joined forcesto adapt the entire trilogy to...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Following Bruce Pascoe’s latest book Salt, Sydney production company Blackfella Films have announced they are turning his award-winning book Dark Emu into a television documentary series. Airing on ABC next year, the series will be written by Pascoe as well as...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
In a rule-breaking decision, both Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been awarded the 2019 Booker Prize, with both authors sharing in the £50,000 award. Atwood won for The Testaments, her heavily anticipated followup to The Handmaid’s Tale; Evaristo...
