Books News Greta Thunberg is headlining London Literature Festival with the launch of ‘The Climate Book’ by Tammy Moir Greta Thunberg is set to headline this year’s The Southbank Centre London Literature Festival, with a world-exclusive launch of The Climate Book (Allen Lane). Returning for its 15th year, the…
Books News The full shortlist for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award is here by Tammy Moir The Dublin Literary Award is one of the world’s most valuable annual prizes for a single work of fiction published in English, worth a cool €100,000 (A$147,400). Now in its…
Clocked News ‘Disco Elysium’ has some of the sharpest dialogue you will ever experience by Alastair Cairns Disco Elysium starts with the momentum of a jet plane roaring off the tarmac. The fact that it does this through words alone, a conversation with your ‘ancient reptilian brain’…
Books Clocked News Prolific fantasy author Brandon Sanderson is working on a video game by Alastair Cairns Brandon Sanderson, the acclaimed fantasy/sci-fi author that finished the Wheel of Time series, has just let slip that he’s developing a video game with a mystery studio. Brandon Sanderson is…
Books News A book of Virginia Woolf’s opinions on her literary peers just sold for £21k by Ria Pandey A book in which acclaimed novelist Virginia Woolf shared her thoughts on her contemporaries has sold for £21,000. Titled Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions, the book was…
Film and TV News Netflix just dropped the trailer for ‘Rebecca’ and it sucks by Mary Ali Netflix just dropped the trailer for its adaptation of the iconic Rebecca, and frankly, it’s a little disappointing. It’s almost impossible to hear the name Rebecca and not think of…
News Talking to your characters won’t make you a psychopath, study says by Mia Montesin A study shows writers hear their characters talk back. 61% say they listen to them. Research from Durham University and the Edinburgh International Book Festival reveals writers’ experiences with their…
Books Features ‘Janis: Her Life and Music’: a celebration of rock’s first female superstar by Luke Saunders Around 1 a.m. on 4 Oct, 1970, Janis Joplin skin popped a dose of ‘China White’ heroin at Room 105 of the Landmark Motor Hotel. The batch was 40-50 percent…
Books Features Flea’s pain-stricken memoir Acid for the Children is a moving journey by Luke Saunders Is Acid for the Children as good as Scar Tissue? No. It’s nothing like it. Flea is assuredly aware of the magnificence of Anthony Kiedis’ autobiography and has not set…
Arts News Fiona Wright navigates the safety and discomfort of home in The World Was Whole by Molly Lasker Essayist, poet and critic Fiona Wright is one of Sydney’s seminal voices in creative non-fiction. Her works, simultaneously idiosyncratic and universally themed, detail the awkwardness and discomfort of life, both…
News These are the biggest fiction bestsellers of the last 100 years by Molly Lasker The team at Literary Hub have compiled a list of the bestsellers in adult fiction over the last 100 years via data collected from Publisher’s Weekly’s information archives. It’s interesting looking…
News A sequel to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale set for release after 30 years by Molly Lasker Margaret Atwood, in a statement released on her Twitter account, has announced that she is currently writing a sequel to her much loved The Handmaid’s Tale, over thirty years after…
Books News After some light winter reading? Brian Eno lists his top books for rebuilding civilisation by Bill Robinson Legendary artist and composer Brian Eno has shared a list of 59 book to build your intellectual world, and 20 books he believes would help rebuild civilisation, should it ever…
