Author: Rosalyn Page

Journalist, blogger and writer covering arts, culture, travel and digital lifestyle at www.rosalynpage.com and www.somenotesfromabroad.com.

The Booker Prize, plus this week’s wrap

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Margaret Atwood bernadine Evaristo booker prize

The big news from the world of books and prizes this week was the announcement of the winner of the Booker Prize. In a shock decision, the Booker Prize was given to two authors, Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernadine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. The judges simply couldn’t split

Dead Central Exhibition

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One of the more interesting things on in Sydney at the moment has to be the Dead Central exhibition. This wonderful audio-visual experience at the NSW State Library takes you back to the late nineteenth century just before Central Station was built.  What a lot of Sydneysiders probably don’t realise is

Banksy Exhibition

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Banksy Love Is In The Air

The Banksy exhibition is currently on in Sydney with 80 artworks, the largest touring collection of the famed street artist's works. Just this week Banksy hit the news over a trademark dispute for merchandise using his artworks. Basically if he doesn't have his own merchandise, he doesn't own the trademark,

Friday On My Mind

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Clea DuVall

This week's round-up of Emmy winners and picks for streaming shows, film, TV, books, exhibitions and more. On the small screen  This week’s dress fest The Emmy’s celebrated more than just thigh-high splits, fake tans and frozen smiles (or maybe I’m getting confused with the Bronlow Medal in Australia); anyway there were

Queen Victoria: An unlikely icon

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Surviving seven assassination attempts, giving birth to nine children and reigning for over half of the nineteenth century, it’s fair to say Queen Victoria had a life less ordinary. But Victoria wasn’t destined for the role of queen from birth. Fifth in line to the throne, a series of deaths

The Nightingale: Feminine exploration of Australia’s violent Colonial past

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The Nightingale

The Nightingale is an astonishing new Australian film from writer/director Jennifer Kent in cinemas now. It’s the follow up to The Babadook, Kent’s critically acclaimed 2014 film. It traces the story of Clare, a young Irish convict woman free after serving her sentence is seeking revenge for the violent acts committed