Congrats to Robbie Arnott for winning the Age Book of the Year Award with his novel The Rain Heron.  This is Arnott’s second novel (following the widely-acclaimed Flames (2018) which was short-listed for several major Australian awards).

'WHAM it hit me. (In fact WHAM-BAM, it hit us.) There is just no denying the arrival of the other half of your soul. Irresistible, scientific and inevitable as planets colliding after a million years of apparent circling.

Welcome to the FANZA Fringe –Our own companion  to the UK Australia Season. Our inaugural Fringe event is a chat about books with the Diving In podcast, Virginia and Louise.

Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums

The Season is the largest ever cultural exchange between the two nations and involves more than 200 live and digital events across both nations.

To celebrate Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), the Indigenous Literacy Foundation is proud to present Celebrating Stories and Language, a free virtual event for all Australians going live from 9am Wednesday 1 September at ild.org.au.

Author Cassandra Pybuss has won the National Biography award for her book Truganini. The story of Truganini, a Nuenonne woman from Bruny Island off Tasmania, is shrouded in myth for almost two centuries.

Looking for an open-air evening of opera favourites, with a roof covering just in case of rain?