Festival Film: Clara Sola

      There’s a touch of magical realism in this intriguing Costa Rican drama by…

Starfish Giveaway: Win New Abrolhos Novel

  Lately our wild WA coast has set become the setting for several new novels. Just…

Festival Film: After Love

      Joanna Scanlan gives a superb performance in this intriguing film about an English…

Festival Film: Compartment No 6.

      Based on a novel by Rosa Liksom, this film, set in the late 1990s…

Pook’s Pearl of a Book Hits the Shelves

      A fine new historical novel, set in Broome, has just the shelves, and…

Festival Film: Murina

      A sun-drenched island off the idyllic Adriatic coast is the setting for Murina,…

Of Horses and War: New Portland Jones Novel

      World War Two didn’t just wipe out tens of thousands of young  Australian…

Caroline Brazier on Playing a Doomed Scottish Queen

      Caroline Brazier, one of Australia’s finest actresses, is soon to tread the boards…

The Hidden Life of Mary And Elizabeth Durack

      Patsy Millett doesn’t pull any punches in her new book about her famous…

Secrets of Perth’s Roe Street Madam Laid Bare

        You may not have heard of Josie de Bray, but this French-born…