Ever since Stieg Larsson’s (Girl with a Dragon Tattoo) Millennium trilogy hit the bestseller list, Scandinavian crime fiction and television – also called Nordic Noir (to encompass Iceland and Finland) – has had a huge impact internationally.  It is characterised as realism coupled with a dark and morally…

Award Winners For some inspiration, these are some of the award winning reads that rocked (at least some corners) of the world in 2013. The Queensland Literary Awards winners including Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko – an intelligent comedy about indigenous land rights and the modern woman The winner…

Popular Australian actor and musician and former QUT acting student Michael Dorman has been a familiar face on Australian TV screens over the last year with his starring role as lovesick Tom Wilcox in Wonderland (currently on order for the library collection). Perhaps less well known is his…