A 'powerfully compelling' novel narrated by a cheeky magpie called Tama has flown off with New Zealand's top literary prize.

Harvey Keitel has signed on to star in the eagerly anticipated Sky and Peacock TV adaptation of the Heather Morris novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has made Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. The literary magazine, whose list has been published every year since 1983, has declared Catton, 37, one of its 20 most significant British novelist aged under 40.

Australian author Michelle de Kretser's novel, Scary Monsters, has won this year's Rathbones Folio Prize for fiction.

English-born Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman and writer Tony Wheeler has won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the bestselling novel by New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer Heather Morris is being turned into a six-part TV series.

Cate Blanchett won best actress for her acclaimed performance as a composer-conductor in Tár.

Actor and FANZA arts patron Sam Neill will star opposite Annette Bening (American Beauty, The Kids Are All Right) in the highly anticipated new drama, Apples Never Fall.

The highly anticipated fifth novel from 'Australian queen of crime' author Jane Harper, Exiles, hit the shelves in the UK on 2 February. Arriving with great fanfare, it's now been hailed 'book of the month' by The Times.

The Australian High Commission in London, Acting High Commissioner to the UK, Lynette Wood, has announced a ground-breaking new partnership between Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra.

In November we were thrilled to host a special invitation-only event for FANZA’s most loyal supporters and friends at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London.

FANZA arts patron Sam Neill has been made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Leading Australian cultural advocate Dr Gene Sherman has released a beautiful new book documenting her life, work, architecture and design achievements - plus her art, jewellery and fashion collections.

Where are we now, ten years on from Julia Gillard's "misogyny speech" - the speech that stopped us all in our tracks? The new book from Australia's former prime minister, Not Now Not Ever, is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.

This month, hundreds of writers will be writing and rewriting their stories before submitting them for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

The brand-new all-Australian arts space at the Edinburgh Festival, House of Oz, has won Best Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Awards 2022.

The literary world is abuzz with the thrilling news that Australian author Kate Morton's hugely anticipated new book, Homecoming, will be published in the UK on 13 April 2023. Morton, who has written six novels, is one of Australia's biggest publishing exports having sold more than 16 million books in 42 countries.

The UK/Australia Season 2021 -22 Brochure is now available to download. Catch up on the amazing line-up of events taking place across the UK this year.