Can Hollywood star and FANZA Arts Patron, Sam Neill, defend Oklahoma against a terrifying alien takeover? That is the question that lies at the heart of his exciting new television series, Invasion, in which the New Zealand actor plays Sheriff John Bell Tyson, who is tasked with exactly that.

The long-awaited arrival of the latest book by international bestselling author Heather Morris is finally here! Three Sisters is based on the lives of Holocaust survivors Cibi, Magda and Livia Meller, whom Morris met when she was promoting her bestselling novel The Tattooist Of Auschwitz.

British songwriter Larry Mindel has just released Ōkārito Ways, a love song to the wetlands of Southland’s beautiful but vulnerable Ōkārito Lagoon.

(An eye-witness account from your FANZA roving reporter) Mary Beard riddled with guilt. Leanne Benjamin teetering. Julia Gillard disbelieving. Barry Humphries quelling his inner Sir Les. And Professor Chris Gosden delivering an immutable truth. 

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?