BooBook Education

24/07/2025

Siang Lu has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for his absurdist, ‘strikingly new’ novel about dictators in parallel cities – which dials the satire up to 11.

24/07/2025

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/miles-franklin-award-makes-history-with-2025-winner-siang-lu-20250724-p5mhhc.html

The winner of the coveted $60,000 literary prize was blown away to make the longlist. Taking out the award has left him lost for words.

24/07/2025

The six inventive books shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin explore ideas of identity, self and nationhood – and play with both ideas and form.

24/07/2025

Miles Franklin 2025: your guide to the shortlist of Australia’s biggest literary prize

Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Thursday. Here’s your primer

17/07/2025

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/thirty-books-we-ll-be-talking-about-for-the-rest-of-2025-20250715-p5mf0y.html

Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.

15/07/2025

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/specials/first-nations-languages-and-culture-special/102555634

In this BTN special, we meet a teenager who’s illustrated a picture book written in Pitjantjatjara, take a look at a website designed to help people learn Kaurna and visit students interviewing elders for NAIDOC Week. (HASS | History | English)

15/07/2025

https://theconversation.com/black-bushranger-brothers-jimmy-and-joe-governor-were-hanged-in-1901-but-were-they-wicked-or-wronged-256896

Historian Katherine Biber invites us to see the lives, crimes and deaths of Jimmy and Joe Governor in the context of bigger national ambitions – and colonial racism.

27/06/2025

Not to be missed!
Coriolanus is being performed in Melbourne by Bell Shakespeare from 24 July to 10 August.
Here is a brief intro from the Royal Shakespeare Company in London, who performed the play in 2017.

https://www.rsc.org.uk/coriolanus/the-plot #:~:text=Reluctantly%2C%20he%20agrees%20to%20make,they%20banish%20Coriolanus%20from%20Rome.

https://youtu.be/2DLOPqdnKr4?si=Z9H6x1pBQ_LBlx5K

Angus Jackson, Director and Sope Dirisu, Coriolanus explain the plot of Shakespeare's full throttle war play.Find out more and book tickets - http://bit.ly/...

25/06/2025

Clueless review – Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy are class acts in 90s Jane Austen parallel

Amy Heckerling’s high school romcoming-of-age classic, composed entirely of quotable funny lines, remains a sophisticated pleasure 30 years on

22/06/2025

The science-fiction show, which is currently topping the non-English charts in 24 countries, has come to symbolise the Argentine struggle for resistance.

21/06/2025

A new exhibition provides insights into the lives of the well-travelled traders around 900AD.

21/06/2025

The bruising exploration of politics, power and civic identity plays out in front of an audience split into two sides for Bell Shakespeare’s take