Day: 15 January 2019

Photo Gallery: FOMO Festival – Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (13.01.19)

FOMO Festival wrapped up in Melbourne over the weekend at Flemington Racecourse. One stage and one huge party, it was a great day with artists such as Nicki Minaj (no photography allowed), Rae Sremmurd, Mura Masa, Aminé, Kali Uchis and more. Photography by Rebecca Houlden

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Here’s the epic food lineup for Download Festival in Sydney and Melbourne

As if a festival with Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer, Alice in Chains and Judas Priest (and those are only the headliners) wasn’t enough, a supersized food program packed with some of the East Coast’s finest eateries has been announced for both the Sydney and Melbourne legs. As was the case last year, Jake Smyth and Kenny…

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Indie Book Awards announce 2019 shortlist

Established in 2008, the Indie Book Awards recognise and celebrate both best in Australian writing as well as the country’s most passionate independent booksellers. This year’s nominations include Markus Zusak‘s Bridge of Clay, his first novel since global phenomenon The Book Thief was published in 2005 and Jessica Townsend‘s Wundersmith, the sequel to last year’s Nevermoor, which…

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Book Review: Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s new novel Beautiful Revolutionary is Jonestown, but not as we know it.

In the summer of 1968, Evelyn Lynden and her husband Lenny move to Evergreen Valley, California so that Lenny can work as an orderly in an asylum- part of the agreement he has made as a conscientious objector, so that he does not have to go over and fight in the Vietnam War. Their arrival…

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