by Akina Hansen | Feb 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
JD Salinger published just four books in his lifetime, all to great acclaim. His most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, continues to sell around one million copies every year. Though he died in 2010, Salinger has not published anything since 1965. His family has...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy was first published in 1878. A novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, Anna Karenina deals with themes of betrayal, faith, family, Imperial Russian society, marriage and desire. Now, YA author and screenwriter Jenny...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
E.L. James has been working on some new stuff. The author of the blockbuster Fifty Shades trilogy has an ‘erotic love story’ coming out April 16. It’s called The Mister and, according to the publisher, will again be a story of sex, wealth and other indulgences,...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Jennifer Rowe has been keeping kids reading for 35 years. Best known for her children’s books penned under her grandmother’s name, Emily Rodda, Rowe has published more than 50 books for kids including the award-winning Rowan of Rin and Deltora Quest series. This...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Twenty years after publishing his 1995 debut crime novel, City of Light, rock musician and writer Dave Warner answered the door of his Sydney home to find two suited men standing outside. The men introduced themselves as cold case detectives. They were working on the...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
The etymology boffins at the Macquarie Dictionary have, once again, trawled through the list of new words added to the dictionary in 2018 and selected the term or phrase that most accurately ‘represents the year gone by’. Last year their Word of the Year was milkshake...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Reading is Australia’s favourite leisure activity. On average, we spend more time with books in our hands than Americans and Brits, and we still far prefer print over e-books. So how many books sold in Australia last year? After a booming summer holiday period, the...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Everyone knows that you don’t judge a book by its cover. You pick it up, flip it over, and judge it by the blurb instead. Sometimes snappy, other times breathless, and usually including some zealous combo of the words ‘haunting’, ‘thrilling’ and ‘un-put-downable’, a...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s always exciting to hear that one of your favourite books is being adapted for the screen. And recently, a number of popular movies and TV shows based on books have sweetened the deal by inspiring authors to write sequels to their books that may never have...
by Akina Hansen | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Catch-22, the 1961 novel by Joseph Heller, is considered to be one of the most influential books of the 20th century. Originally adapted in the 1970 black comedy feature film directed by Mike Nichols, the book is being revived as a 6-episode TV miniseries on Hulu,...
