Books, reading & writing

Anything and everything in Books, reading & writing from across our archives.

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18 Oct 2011

News

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Tintin Hits the Silver Screen / Graphic novels & comics

By Alex Landragin

23 Mar 2020

News

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Michael Williams: All the Best / Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Michael Williams

31 Mar 2011

Sendak’s Abandoned Tolkien Project / Graphic novels & comics

By Alex Landragin

Following on from news of Shaun Tan’s Astrid Lindgren Award win, we noticed that the inaugural winner of the prize was Maurice Sendak, legendary creator of Where the Wild Things Are (also of course a Dave Eggers-scripted, Spike Jonze-directed film, shot in Victoria). Sendak’s fans are legion, as are fans of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit (which itself won awards, and is soon to be…

23 Apr 2014

Past event

Jennifer Saunders / TV

With Jennifer Saunders and Kaz Cooke

5 Jul 2017

Past event

Promo image for Alan Brough with Charlie and the Karaoke Cockroaches: Kyneton

Wheeler Kids

Alan Brough with Charlie and the Karaoke Cockroaches: Kyneton / Children’s books

With Alan Brough

Hitler and the Decisions for the Final Solution: Christopher Browning / History

21 Sep 2017

Past event

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Binge, Whinge, Cringe: Does Australian Culture Even Exist? / Humour

With Charles Firth, Mark Humphries, Sally Warhaft and 1 other

29 Mar 2017

Past event

Promo image for Represent: Paul Daley and Jack Latimore on Black Stories and Media

Represent: Paul Daley and Jack Latimore on Black Stories and Media / First Nations

With Jack Latimore and Paul Daley

Fatima Bhutto / Government

With Fatima Bhutto

9 Sep 2011

The Best & Worst of Career Advice / Non-Fiction

By Alex Landragin

In 2008, young Canadian graduate Jay Bahadur was working a market research job, aching to become a journalist, when - according to his Wikipedia page - he received some telling advice from experienced journalists. He was told to skip journalism school and to work instead as a freelancer in “crazy places”. The advice might well have been unconventional but, as fortune does tend to…

7 Oct 2013

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