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How the literature of fire can help readers find hope among the ashes

“We are living apocalyptically.”

The Conversation · Jan 17, 2025

From the Baillie Gifford to the Giller: can literary prizes survive protests against sponsors?

Writers have been coming out against companies that fund awards, with serious implications for the books industry

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2024

The Narrow Road To The Deep North: UK release date, cast, plot and everything you need to know

The Narrow Road To The Deep North stars Saltburn's Jacob Elordi playing a prisoner of war in an epic love story.

WhatToWatch · Dec 3, 2024

Afternoon Update: Trump picks Dr Oz to run Medicare; bullying reports increase at Rio Tinto; and the new word for cost-of-living rage

The president-elect has also nominated former WWE executive Linda McMahon as education secretary

The Guardian - AU · Nov 20, 2024

Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan adds Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize to his trophy shelf

Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2024

Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan makes history securing Baillie Gifford gong

The author secured the non-fiction award for his memoir Question 7.

Evening Standard · Nov 19, 2024

Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize and questions sponsor’s fossil fuel ties

Australian author says he will not accept £50,000 prize money until fund manager reduces its fossil fuel investments

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2024

Richard Flanagan: ‘I’m not sure that I will write again’

The Tasmanian novelist – whose latest book, Question 7, is up for both fiction and nonfiction prizes – on HG Wells, the TV adaptation of his Booker prize winner The Narrow Road to the Deep North… and his much-missed parrot, Herb

The Guardian - UK · Nov 16, 2024

Julia Leigh’s The Hunter at 25: a ruthlessly unsentimental tale of nature betrayed

Some time in the late 1990s, a man is hiking through Tasmania’s Central Plateau, hoping to kill a thylacine. He’s a mainlander, and he has come to a Tasmania that no longer exists: before MONA, before Jetstar, before secret saunas and mountain bike trails, before the Tasmanian Forest Agreement, before…

The Conversation · Oct 29, 2024

Maestro of ominous music wins best film soundtrack

A screen composer renowned for ominous beats and discordant orchestration has won score of the year for his work on yet another major feature film.

AAP · Oct 29, 2024