by Akina Hansen | Sep 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Need some good reading to kick off the new month? Here are 10 hotly anticipated reads being released in the first 10 days of October. 1 OCTOBER Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales Erebus: The story of a ship by Michael Palin No Spin by Shane Warne Hippie by Paulo Coelho...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
George R R Martin has arrived home from his epic success at The Emmy’s. He has released on his blog an exclusive peek on the history of Westeros and the Targaryen lords in Fire & Blood. Fire & Blood will be illustrated by Doug Wheatley and written...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Paul McCartney says, ‘I’ve got eight grandchildren and they’re all beautiful and one day one of them said to me “Hey Grandude!”. I said “What?” and I thought, I kind of like that, so from then on I was kind of known as Grandude.’ He...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
The most commonly Googled question about the world’s most famous kids horror writer is ‘When did R L Stine die?’. Perhaps the fact the ‘Goosebumps’ series debuted over two and half decades ago – and that the moniker R L Stine sounds likes it belongs to someone at...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
A number of books have fallen victim to a googley-eye rampage at Alexandria-Monroe Public Library, Indiana, US, this week. Library staff have pleaded for an end to the stealthy stickers, writing on their Facebook page that the images will ‘haunt nightmares for all...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Man Booker shortlist was announced on Thursday with the coveted fiction award’s possible winners now down to six contenders, four of whom are women. Anna Burns’ Milkman, Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black, Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under,...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
The shortlist has been announced for the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award, Western Australia’s longest running manuscript award. Emerging WA writers, Yuot Alaak, Zoe Deleuil, Alan Fyfe, Holden Sheppard, Julie Sprigg and Trish Versteegenhave are all in the...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Today Aussies of all ages are encouraged to set aside 60 minutes for a date with a book. The Australian Reading Hour initiative aims to help people discover or rekindle a love of reading, reduce stress (by 68 per cent, to be exact) and improve literacy skills. Any...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
After a heated auction among multiple parties, British indie producer Synchronicity Films has secured the rights to Heather Morris’ book The Tattooist of Auschwitz. The book is written by Australia-based author Heather Morris, and draws on years of interviews...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Professor Yuval Noah Harari meditates for two hours a day and doesn’t own a smartphone. He’s a globally respected writer and thinker, and authored the books Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Most recently he wrote 21 Lessons...
