Succession star Sarah Snook will headline the Sydney Theatre Company’s acclaimed one-woman adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray when it makes its West End debut early next year.

Anna McGahan’s Immaculate is the winner of this year's The Australian / Vogel’s Award for Young Writers, which has launched the careers of over a hundred Australian authors, including Anna’s uncle, beloved Australian novelist Andrew McGahan.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she is writing a book, with the focus more on leadership than on politics.

Through an exciting partnership between the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific and Creative New Zealand, the Edinburgh Festivals Intensive programme has been reignited. This opportunity supports New Zealand artists to experience the Edinburgh festivals and this will be the first time a New Zealand delegation of artists has travelled to Edinburgh since pre-Covid-19. 

One of the UK’s leading literary industry talents has been announced as the new artistic director of Auckland Writers Festival, Waituhi O Tāmaki.

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.