by Akina Hansen | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Have you set your resolutions for 2019? Maybe you’ve already broken a few! Fear not – there’s still hope for your reading goals. Here are our best tips for keeping your reading on track in the New Year. 1. Take your book with you Many of us often think that reading...
by Akina Hansen | Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Victor Hugo’s 1862 historical novel Les Misérables is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential works of the 19th century – though people today are likely to be more familiar with the powerhouse stage musical or the 2012 movie starring Anne Hathaway...
by Akina Hansen | Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Gerald Murnane, author of 13 books including The Plains and his 2015 memoir, Something for the Pain: A memoir of the turf, has won the Fiction category of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for his most recent novel, Border Districts. The win brings...
by Akina Hansen | Dec 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Australian author Jock Serong’s On The Java Ridge has taken out first place in The Staunch Book Prize, a new award that is protesting the overload of violence towards women in fiction, particularly in crime and thriller genres. Claiming that violence against women in...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Since its release in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale has sold over eight million copies, and been adapted into an Emmy-winning, blockbuster television series. The newly announced sequel, The Testaments is set 15 years after Offred’s final scene in The Handmaid’s Tale and is...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Helen Lewis has won the $20,000 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for her book The Dead Still Cry Out, an investigation into her father’s life through the photographs he took during World War II as a paratrooper and combat cameraman. Lewis’s father, Mike,...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
Since thriller writer Lee Chid introduced his all American hero Jack Reacher in the 1997 novel Killing Floor, the brawny, calculated character has been pursued by all manner of armed-to-the-teeth villians, shielded the Vice President from assassination, and has made a...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
A writer who grew up in small-town Australia feeling ‘truly unseen’ will have a novel based on his experiences of growing up gay published by Fremantle Press after winning the City of Fremantle T.A.G Hungerford Award. Perth writer Holden Sheppard won the $12,000 prize...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many great musicals have their origins in books. Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist, and Roald Dahl’s Matilda are just some of the countess classic novels whose journeys from page to stage have become Broadway legend. But there are also some...
by Akina Hansen | Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Brisbane’s new Tool Library functions just like any other. Members visit, borrow goods, return them in a few days or weeks. Though there are some key differences. Instead of hushed voices, the quiet shuffling of pages, and the gentle patter of keyboards, the Brisbane...
