The adaptation of the acclaimed Australian novel is the first to be announced for Anonymous Content's UK spin-off Chapter One.

An old man and a dog walking into a burnt black ­forest. The man’s name is Maurice Manton and the Jack Russell’s name is Charlie. “Where I go, Charlie goes,” Maurice says, wandering between the black...

In Australian writer Trent Dalton’s buzzy debut, a lovable, imaginative boy is forced to grow up.

Trent Dalton's bestselling coming-of-age novel has swept the field, claiming a record number of prizes.

Sand is optional.

It’s the news that isn’t that surprising - Boy Swallows Universe has broken records to become QPAC’s highest selling drama with more than 40,000 people seeing the play over six weeks.

There are several reasons for my ­distant and strictly honourable crush on Geraldine Brooks. The way she writes. The way she ­channelled a formidable journalism career into a novel-writing life that...

The woman at the window is 94 years old and Irish and as warm as the lemon light bouncing through the convent. “Former convent,” she says. “No longer a convent once we vacate it.” The woman at the...

Remember hugs? Wrapping your arms around someone you love and squeezing the life out of them because you haven’t seen them for three weeks or four days or five hours and you want to show them how...

The nightmare is mostly the same every time. He’s back in the water on his surfboard and he’s waiting for a wave and he knows it’s ­Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, where all the madness began in 2015 and...

The way my wife says she loves me chills me to the bone. Two of us making ham and cheese toasties together for a weekday lunch because we do that now since the virus sent us home to this open-ended...

It’s hard to know where to start with Trent Dalton. He’s a storyteller by heart, one who is gifted or, as he puts it, cursed. “There’s this flaw in my system where I feel like I have to dazzle people...

“Thanks Reg and Johnny, dear Rats of Tobruk.”

The award-winning journalist reveals how a chance encounter at a Powderfinger gig with the band’s frontman changed his life in unimaginable ways.

His name is an echo. Hantun Hantun. Last name same as the first. His name is like every good thing he’s ever taken from Buddhism. Everything you say comes back to you. Everything you do comes back to...

This is life as he knows it. This is Gary Diggles on a good day and good days are always the ones where you’re not dead. This is married for 48 years. This is a pet cavoodle by his feet named Dotti....

One useful way to measure the best people in life is to start by measuring the worst. Robyn Clauscen, 75, of Sunny Avenue, Wavell Heights, Brisbane, once worked for eight years in the nearby Toombul...

A portrait of the artist with line trimmer and lawnmower. Squint your eyes and he’s Michelangelo. Tom Moore’s masterpiece is a backyard lawn half the size of a tennis court in the middle of Sunny...

“Here if ya need.” Not the most intimidating sporting team motto ever ­conceived. Not really the kind of words that would instil fear in most opposition community netball teams – but fear was never...

Hannah Brown discovered she was pregnant on Australia Day. She’s a 33-year-old Brisbane woman who’s been living in London for seven years with her husband. “We did our usual Aussies-in-London...