by Akina Hansen | Oct 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature. Han is the first South Korean winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the first Asian woman to win the prize. Han Kang was born in 1970 in Gwangju , South Korea. She made her literary...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day, an initiative by BookPeople, this Saturday 12 October! The theme of Love Your Bookshop Day (LYBD) 2024 is Giving the Gift of Imagination. From hosting literary events to providing excellent book recommendations, bookshops are your...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, just published in August this year, is already moving towards a screen adaptation. The adaptation of Here One Moment will be brought to the screen by Made Up Stories and Nicole Kidman and Per Saari’s Blossom Films. Liane Moriarty’s...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Head to your local bookshop on Saturday 12 October 2024 for Love Your Bookshop Day. Love Your Bookshop Day celebrations are initiatives of the BookPeople created to celebrate bookshops across Australia and highlight what makes local bookshops great. The theme of...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Fans of Jeremy Clarkson will be pleased to hear another new book is coming from the TV presenter. The latest book will be the next instalment his ‘Diddly Squat’ series. The new book is called Diddly Squat: Home to roost which continues his story of...
by Akina Hansen | Oct 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA), in partnership with Australia’s leading essential building and infrastructure services provider ARA Group, have announced the Shortlists for the 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize. The ARA Historical Novel Prize is a...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Australian Ark: The Story of Australian Wine – 1788 to the Modern Era, published earlier this year, has just picked up its first international publishing award. Already acknowledged as an extraordinary contribution to the history and legacy of Australian wine...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Francesca de Tores’s Saltblood has won the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel. ABOUT THE BOOK In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision- Mary will...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
The First Casualty film, based on the book of the same name by Peter Greste, is to be released Boxing Day 2024. Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the frontline in the world’s most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his...
by Akina Hansen | Sep 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him – and encounters the complicit silences of a people...
