Author Jonathan Butler discusses his new book "The Boy in the Dress: Searching for the Truth Behind a Historical Hate Crime on Home Soil During WWII" and discusses true crime, the challenges of…

For the 2022 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lano & Woodley have raised the anchor, set sail and taken on the big seas of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The legendary comedy duo tell…

The great Gillian Armstrong (director, trailblazer, Australian New Wave alum) calls in to Primal Screen ahead of Wildflowers: Dancing, Desire and Freedom in the Films of Gillian Armstrong, a retrospective of her…

Sydney comic Suren Jayemanne is currently in Melbourne bringing his Industry Darling Adjacent show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Finding time between his run of shows at the Westin (across from The…

‘Cold Enough For Snow’ is Jessica Au’s tightly crafted, award-winning second novel that wrestles with the tension that comes with words unspoken. As mother and daughter travel through Japan together, the unbridgeable emotional…

Australian author Diana Reid delves into her debut novel ‘Love & Virtue’. The novel introduces Michaela and Eve, two fellow college students in Sydney who come to know the privilege, power and male-dominated…

Award-winning writer of ‘Burial Rites' and 'The Good People’, Hannah Kent, gives thoughtful insight into her latest novel, ‘Devotion’. Her lush descriptions of nature, religion, land, ghosts and queerness intertwine with the power…

Walkley Award-winning author Delia Falconer chats about her fourth book, ‘Signs and Wonders, Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss’. Comprising thirteen essays, it delves deeply into the human impact on the…

Stella Award-winning novelist, Emily Bitto delves into her new novel ‘Wild Abandon’. It follows Will, as he journeys to America in an attempt to mend his broken heart and hopefully find some peace…

In her latest book, two-time Miles Franklin award winner, Michelle de Kretser explores the ‘Scary Monsters’ of racism and misogyny. It follows two distinct novellas based in different times and places, though linked…