Dr Diana Carroll loves words. She is a professional writer, speaker, corporate coach, and reviewer. Her writing has been published in leading newspapers, magazines including ArtsHub, InDaily, the SMH, the Australian, Woman’s Day, and B&T.
Writing about the arts is one of her great passions.
A new novel from Louis de Bernieres promises so much. The famed author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and many other titles, along with a substantial catalogue of poetry, is indeed a superb wordsmith. But in this new novel that …
The life and work of leading conceptual performance artist Marina Abramović come together in this impressive new book that effectively blurs the lines between the art and the artist. And so it has been in much of her work …
A couple of years ago, Ali Heath released a beautiful homes book called CURATE, written with Lynda Gardner. That was a real success, selling over 20,000 copies. Heath’s new book, CREATE (do you see how similar those two words …
The Modern: A homage to art, love, and life in Manhattan by Anna Kate Blair
There is much to love in this debut novel from Melbourne writer Anna Kate Blair. It’s about art and desire and life in Manhattan. It’s …
The British Royal Family has rarely been out of the news in the last few decades from the sad story of Diana and Charles to the Queen’s astonishingly long reign and this year’s ascension of King Charles lll. Along the …
This year’s Sydney Contemporary was the biggest iteration yet featuring some 500 artists and 100 local and international galleries. The breadth and quality of the works on display attracts art collectors and curators from across the region. This year’s fair …
Sydney Contemporary opens at Carriageworks next month for its seventh and most dynamic iteration. Featuring more than 500 artists and 96 leading galleries from across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia and Singapore, it really is the meeting place for …
Readers of the award-winning Sydney author Dr Stephanie Bishop will know that things are rarely what they seem. In this haunting story, we witness a tragedy. The narrator, a novelist known as JB Blackwood, is on a cruise with her …
I’D RATHER NOT is a memoir but not as you might expect. Most memoirs are published by people who have lived a long and colourful life or have survived some great loss or trauma. None of this applies to Melbourne …
Shoji Morimoto is a young husband and father living in Tokyo. Disillusioned with life in the Japanese corporate culture, he started his own business as a ‘rental person who does nothing’ in 2018. At the time, it didn’t even really …