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20 international guests to see at Melbourne Writers Festival 2017
Here are 20 international guests appearing at this year’s Melbourne Writers Fesitval (MWF). You can find even more guests in the full Festival program here.
We’re also so pleased to be hosting a full day of fantastic free events showcasing a range of new Australian fiction, and you can find out what our staff are most excited to see right here.
Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas is the author of The Hate U Give, which debuted at…
Celebrate the very best in new Australian fiction at Melbourne Writers Festival 2017
As part of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), we’re partnering with the festival for a full day of fantastic free events showcasing a range of new Australian fiction. Join us at the Cube at ACMI on Saturday 2 September from 10am and hear from some amazing talented local writers. Below is the day’s schedule.
For more MWF inspiration, we’ve compiled a list of terrific international guests, and our staff have shared the events they’re most excited to attend…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Open House Melbourne Weekend: 2017 Program by Open House Melbourne
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (including sales of other editions)
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
Wimmera by Mark Brandi
No Way! Okay, Fine. by Brodie Lancaster
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
Sleeping in the Ground by Peter Robinson
Hunger by Roxane Gay
The Open House Melbourne weekend is scheduled for the weekend of 29-30…
Our children's and YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (Polly and Buster Book 1) by Sally Rippin
A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee
The World’s Worst Children 2 by David Walliams and Tony Ross
Worlds Collide (The Land of Stories Book 6) by Chris Colfer
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
Marsh and Me by Martine Murray
Elizabeth and Zenobia by Jessica Miller
Five recent YA books I want to rave about
After the joyful experience of reading stacks of OzYA fiction as one of the judges for the Readings Young Adult Book Prize, I went on an international YA reading binge. Here are five of my favourite YA novels of recent times.
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
I adored this smart, romantic and thoroughly entertaining debut novel. Dimple and Rishi are both headed for Insomnia Con – an intense web development competition held at San Francisco State University…
What we're reading: Georgia Blain, Margaret Mahy & Ghassan Hage
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Britt Munro is reading Is Racism an Environmental Threat? by Ghassan Hage
This is a wry and expansive analysis of the mode of being that Hage terms ‘domestication’ (which he explores as synonymous with practises of modern nation-building) as the root of both structural racism and environmental degradation. I love reading Hage because he always…
Our top picks of the month for book clubs
For pairing with a feast of Indian food…
The Parcel by Anosh Irani
In the swollen and crumbling red-light district of Kamathipura, at the heart of Bombay, lives Madhu. Her home is Hijra House, one of the last bastions in the land war slowly consuming the area as property developers vie for land. It is here that hijras – eunuchs, people of the third sex, ‘neither here nor there’ – ply their trade. Madhu has been given the difficult and…
Our top picks for MIFF 2017
Staff share what they’re planning to see at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) this year. You can find the full program here.
Jemima Bucknell is excited for a very special Australian film event.
MIFF is just the best time of year for the Melbourne film scene. I’m looking forward to new things from the cinema landscapers like Terence Malick with Song to Song, Luca Guadagnino with Call Me by Your Name, Todd Haynes with Wonderstruck…
MIFF 2017 picks for kids and teens
This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) presents two program streams for a youth audience. MIFF Kids is a program of films for all ages at family-friendly times on the weekends. MIFF Schools brings together an array of high quality, diverse and age appropriate films in languages most commonly taught in Victorian schools.
Here is what’s on offer for kids and teens in 2017.
RECOMMENDED FOR 8+
USA & China | English
Directed by Pixar…
Eight Australian fiction debuts to read in July
Australia Day by Melanie Cheng
In her debut story collection, Melanie Cheng offers a fresh perspective on contemporary Australia and asks crucial questions about the possibility of human connection in a globalised world. The people she writes about are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim – but no matter who they are or where they come from, they all share a desire to belong. Hawthorn bookseller Annie Condon describes this collection as ‘a wonderful feat…
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