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3 weeks ago | artshub.co.uk | Thuy On

Catherine Deveny is dyslexic and has been a professional writer for 32 years. She is the author of 10 books, has appeared on Q&A five times, and published over 1000 columns in The Age newspaper (Australia). She’s been a regular on the ABC (Australia’s BBC), performed four one-woman stand-up shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Go Back To Where You Came From.

3 weeks ago | artshub.co.uk | Thuy On

Major Books, a new UK-based independent press, is dedicated to bringing Vietnamese literature –presently underrepresented on bookshelves – to global readers. The publishing house has just finished its debut project, with a trilogy of books by and about Vietnamese women, spanning three centuries. As the team’s co-founder Pascal Nguyen points out: “Vietnam is known globally for its textiles, cuisine and tourism.

1 month ago | artshub.co.uk | Gina Fairley

As we know the British Museum is all encompassing and exhausting. So how do you navigate it? I always plan a visit around the special (temporary) exhibitions and then allow myself to get lost and wander in a different section – just enough to digest in one visit. The British Museum’s Spring Program kicks into play on 1 May. Here are some of the new exhibitions on offer:It seems we can’t get enough of Japan.

1 month ago | artshub.co.uk | Daniel Herborn

In Jimmy Carr’s memoir, the arena-filling UK comic talks about how he quit his day job to become a club comic. Just six months into his new life, he could make a living purely from stand-up. To Australian comedian Nick Robertson, it read like a “fairy tale”. With Australia’s smaller population, having some side hustle or a fully-fledged day job is generally necessary, even for prominent comedians.

1 month ago | artshub.co.uk | Thuy On

The shortlist for this year’s International Booker Prize, worth £50,000, has now been announced. The 2025 judging panel includes Max Porter (chair), Caleb Femi, Sana Goyal, Anton Hur and Beth Orton.