
The Book Awards shortlists for the 2022 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) has been announced.
View More»Director Robert Connolly and actor Eric Bana who previously worked together on the film ‘The Dry’, are reuniting for another film based on Jane Harper’s novel, Force of Nature.
View More»Author Nell Pierce has won this year's Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for her novel, A Place Near Eden.
View More»NT Writers Festival returns to beautiful Larrakia land for four days of talks and immersive events celebrating story, language and culture shaped by place.
View More»Graham Norton’s debut novel, Holding, has been adapted for the small screen and will air on SBS TV.
View More»Our podcast with Caroline Petit, author of The Natural History of Love marks our 200th Good Reading podcast!
View More»Columbia University have announced the winners and nominated finalists of the 106th Pulitzer Prize via video stream.
View More»Actor Jeff Daniels has been cast in the lead role in Netflix’s A Man in Full, a limited series adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel of the same name.
View More»The 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced. The prize seeks to highlight the best fiction by women across the world, regardless of their age, race, nationality or background.
View More»Jayne Allen's 'Black Girls' trilogy of novels is getting a television adaptation with AGC studios.
View More»Award winning and number one bestselling author Dervla McTiernan is releasing a new standalone thriller this year called The Murder Rule.
View More»Lily Rabe, Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens and Finn Wittrock are set to star in Sony’s film adaptation of Chuck Klosterman's Downtown Owl.
View More»The character Lisbeth Salander from Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is coming back in a new trilogy to be written by Swedish... View More»
The Danish animated documentary Flee which received three Oscar nominations is being adapted into a graphic novel, the Hollywood Reporter reports.
View More»The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is being adapted into a Netflix film by Liz Tigelaar, the creator of Little Fires... View More»
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) have announced this year’s Book of the Year Awards Shortlist and that this year’s final prize pool will exceed $100 000 for the first time.
View More»Reese Witherspoon is partnering with Dolly Parton and James Patterson to adapt their novel, Run, Rose, Run into a feature film, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
View More»Australian independent booksellers have announced the winners of the 2022 Indie Book Awards.
View More»An auction of signed and dedicated copies of books, submission package critiques and mentoring sessions from writers and editors are raising money for Ukraine.
View More»Jon Krakauer’s book Under the Banner of Heaven is set for a limited series adaptation on Hulu and will feature Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones,... View More»
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Road, Cormac McCarthy, has two novels coming out this fall in the US.
View More»The Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation have appointed Gabrielle Wang as the new Australian Children’s Laureate for 2022-23.
View More»William Jackson Harper will be staring in the film adaptation of M T Anderson’s science fiction novel Landscape with Invisible Hand.
View More»Children’s author and illustrator, Shirley Hughes, who was best known for creating the Alfie book series and the picture book, Dogger, has died age 94.
View More»Pan Macmillan Australia have announced Australian and international bestselling author Jane Harper's next novel, Exiles, which will be released on 20 September.
View More»Conservative commentator and satirist, PJ O’Rourke has died at age 74 of complications from lung cancer.
View More»Lianne Moriarty's novel, The Husband's Secret is set for a film adaptation, according to deadline.
View More»The new TV series ‘Reacher’ which is based on Lee’s Childs mystery series has been renewed for a second season just days after premiering on February 4.
View More»Author R A Spratt has revealed the process behind the cover of her latest book in the popular Friday Barnes series, Friday Barnes 10: Undercover, which follows young detective Friday as she solves a mystery in Norway.
... View More»Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has announced its full program for the 2022 festival which will be held across six days from March 5 – March 10 and will include a total of 165 guests.
View More»The Arts Council have named award winning writer Colm Tóibin as the new Laureate for Irish Fiction from 2022 – 2024.
View More»Australian independent booksellers have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Indie Book Awards.
View More»Love Nature and the ABC have commissioned author and conservationist Tim Winton to write and narrate a three-part docuseries on the Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia.
View More»Joelle Taylor has won the 2021 TS Eliot poetry prize for her collection C+nto & Othered Poems which looks at butch lesbian counterculture in the 1990s.
View More»One of the smallest books in the world sold at an auction in Brussels for approximately AU $6 500 (£3500).
View More»The winners of the 2021 Hugo Awards have been announced with Martha Wells taking the top science fiction award for her novel Network Effect.
View More»gr's resident book and film buff reviews The Power of the Dog, based on the book of the same name by Thomas Savage.
View More»Acclaimed author and activist Gloria Jean Watkins or more widely known by her pen name, bell hooks, has died at the age of 69 at her home in Kentucky.
View More»Author Chris Hammer has topped the 2021 list for eBook loans from Australian public libraries on the Libby App.
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Actor and comedian Celeste Barber is set to executive produce and star in the eight-episode series ‘Wellmania’, which is inspired by the book Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by author Brigid Delaney.
View More»American author Anne Rice, who wrote the bestselling 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire has died at the age of 80.
View More»Australian independent booksellers have announced the longlist for the Indie Book Awards 2022.
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The Guardian reported that American writer Sandra Newman is writing a feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four called Julia which has been approved by... View More»
Serena Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam champion and 4-time Olympic medallist, is set to release a children’s book titled, The Adventures of Qai Qai.
View More»James Goodhand’s novel Last Lesson is set for a tv adaptation and will be produced by Red Planet Pictures.
View More»Acclaimed novelist Bernardine Evaristo will become the next president of the Royal Society of Literature, becoming the first writer of colour in the position.
View More»The Walkley Foundation announced the 2021 longlist for the Walkley Book Award, part of the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
View More»Black Inc. and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) are partnering to publish Seeking Asylum: Our Stories.
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