Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë : Australian fans await new film.

The new film of Jane Eyre is being released in Australia on 11th August 2011  In a bold new feature version of Jane Eyre, director Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe) infuse a contemporary immediacy into Charlotte Brontë’s timeless, classic story. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious [...]

Game of Thrones vs Harry Potter

See the HBO series definitely but I defy you to read the first book, Game of Thrones, and not come back for more.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Teaser Trailer from Columbia Pictures

Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest is one of the greatest success stories in modern publishing history. Before you see the film, make sure you’ve read the books… The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (See cheap [...]

The Lost Thing by Oscar winner, Shaun Tan. (Congratulations, Shaun!)

“The Lost Thing” has won the Oscar for animated short film. Directed by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann, the short film tells the story of a boy who finds a misshapen creature on a beach and tries to find a home for it. The movie is based on a children’s picture book by Tan. “The [...]

And the Oscar goes too…. the book that inspired the film!

The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich The fast-paced story of two Ivy-League outcasts who concocted a scheme to meet girls, and ended up inventing Facebook Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg – an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius – were never going to fit [...]

I Am Number Four – Lorien Legacies Series : Book 1 by Pittacus Lore

“I am Number Four held me absolutely in its thrall from start to finish,” says Toni Whitmont, Editor-in-Chief of the Booktopia BUZZ – read the full review here. ———————————– There were NINE of us who escaped . . . Number ONE was killed in Malaysia Number TWO was murdered in England. Number THREE was hunted [...]

Palo Alto by James Franco

This face is suddenly everywhere. While wondering why, I caught the end of an interview on TV. My hero, Jon Stewart seemed to be taking the face, James Franco, seriously. Franco had just won an Oscar nomination for best actor for his performance in 127 Hours (explains why his face is everywhere). But that wasn’t [...]

Tamara Drew is a film of the graphic novel which was the compilation of the Guardian serial which was loosely based upon the great work of Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. Got that?

I shouldn’t mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. Thomas Hardy – Far from the Madding Crowd Tamara Drewe is a brilliant graphic novel inspired by Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd by Posy Simmonds the author of the widely acclaimed Gemma Bovery Tamara Drewe has [...]

Howl: A Graphic Novel. Allen Ginsberg’s poem illustrated by Eric Drooker

You’d think one group of writers, The Beats, would escape being revitalised by the addition of paranormal paraphernalia – if you added zombies to On the Road or Naked Lunch, who would notice, right? But the genius of modern publishing has managed to evoke the malaise of the day on the cover of an illustrated [...]

A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth. Now a film starring George Clooney: The American

A haunting psychological suspense novel, now re-released to tie in to the major new film starring George Clooney The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla – Mr. Butterfly. He is a discreet gentleman who spends his time quietly painting rare butterflies. He has few friends and is constantly on [...]

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