All Day All Night - Moon Taxi cover

Join us at Lost the Plot for all things books. 

This month we talk copyright controversy, free books, book awards and May reads.

Links:

Shakespeare First Folio
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3609165/Shakespeare-First-Folio-fetches-2-75-million-auction.html

Winnie The Pooh's 90th Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2tSqyVJC7M 

Future Library Project - David Mitchell
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/30/david-mitchell-buries-latest-manuscript-for-a-hundred-years 

International Man Booker Prize
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/16/man-booker-international-prize-serves-up-victory-to-the-vegetarian-han-kang-deborah-smith 

Nebula Awards
http://io9.gizmodo.com/women-swept-the-2015-the-nebula-awards-1776706665

Allie Brosch's New Book
http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/touchstone-to-publish-a-new-allie-brosch-book/119879

Neil Gaiman's New Book
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2016/05/finishing-things.html 

Breaking the Boundaries
http://www.musecanberra.com.au/events/2016/5/13/book-launch-breaking-the-boundaries

Towel Day
http://www.towelday.org/

Towel Day Game
https://apps.facebook.com/survive-forty-two/

Productivity Commission's Report
http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/current/intellectual-property/draft 

Book Copyright
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/productivity-commission-calls-for-free-import-of-books-copyright-shakeup-20160428-goh806.html

Book Copyright Interview
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/the-productivity-commission/7388204

Book Copyright - Tim Winton
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/tim-winton-condemns-government-plans-for-a-new-colonial-era-of-publishing-20160520-goze2o.html

Book Copyright - Open Letter by Jackie French
http://www.harpercollins.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Open-Letter-from-Jackie-French.pdf

Free Comic Book Day
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992 

Free Comics
https://impactcomics.comicretailer.com/Free-Comics/page/175

Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/

Redditgifts
www.redditgifts.com

Tinted Edges Book Blog
http://tintededges.wordpress.com


Episode 3 - Free Books

Not The Right Time

In this brief introductory podcast (because of exam season), Jeremy explains his motivations for starting it. He also talks about a secret at Old Parliament House, and a couple of anecdotes about one of its more colourful personalities, Archie Cameron. 

The books mentioned in the podcast are 'Acts of Parliament' by Gavin Souter (Melbourne University Press, 1988) and 'Servant of the House' by Frank Green (Heinemann, 1969). 

You can find Old Parliament House's #TriviaTuesday at its Twitter handle http://www.twitter.com/MoAD_Canberra. And topic suggestions can be sent to Jeremy's Twitter http://www.twitter.com/JeremyTravers.

Bartlet

Bartlet: The Pilot

Modern life can feel like an injury. Where do we turn for hope when all seems dark? It's times like these we need the consolation of art and ducks. Join us for an evening with Michael Leunig - cartoonist and philosopher - for a glimpse into his twentieth collection of cartoons Ducks for Dark Times. Explore the mind of one of Australia's most treasured artists and find the wisdom and resilience needed for anyone who is losing faith; who's becoming exhausted or fed up with the news, and for those of us who feel we could do well to laugh or weep a little more.

Author Talk

Hope in Dark Times: An Evening with Michael Leunig

Kate Forsyth chats about fairytales, feminism and providing a voice for the forgotten women in history. Discussing the incredible Charlotte de la Force in Bitter Greens and her determination to live life the way she intended, we follow her incredible journey, you will fall in love with her and not just because she dressed up as a bear to rescue her younger lover, although this is reason enough.

How wonderful was it to learn about the origins of Happily Ever After, this type of ending of a fairytale was, believe it or not, had quite a feminist angle. In this time period, marriage was to simply improve the position of others in society, never for love. Therefore, if a woman managed to marry the man she desired, and a man of her choice then she really did live happily ever after, unlike so many before her.

In Beauty in Thorns, one of Kate's latest novels, we chat about Lizzie Siddal, the model in the infamous Ophelia painting as well as the women in the pre-Raphaelite era trying to be heard. We read about their lovers, their struggles, opium addiction, eating disorders and the importance of art to change the world.

Kate Forsyth has sold more than a million books, which ones have you read?

Words and Nerds Podcas

27. Kate Forsyth: Fairytales, Feminism and the Forgotten Women in History.

Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally praised novel The Anchoress, is in conversation with Catherine Milne on Robyn's second novel, Book of Colours, a profoundly beautiful story about creativity and connection.

Book of Colours is set in London in 1321 in a small shop in Paternoster Row, where three people are drawn together around the creation of a magnificent, illuminated prayer book. As each struggles to see the book come into being, it will change everything they have understood about their place in the world.

In conversation with Robyn Cadwallader

It has been far too long coming, but finally we address Ursula K Le Guin's influential classic A Wizard of Earthsea. What's in a name? Find out as we forge ahead into the meditative reflective waters of Earthsea, a mere 50 years after the words found their way to paper. We never said we were punctual!

Seeking Tumnus

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin

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