August Blue

August BlueThe mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson former child prodigy, now in her thirties walks off the stage in Vienna, mid performance. Now she is in Athens, watching as an uncannily familiar young woman purchases the last pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa soon begins a journey across Europe, on the run from her

a frizzy-haired heiress

including the Julien Baker

Barbara Kopple

a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative

Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective

by taking the radical step of removing the plinth and placing his work directly on the ground not only changed our relationship with the artwork

All Music (4 Stars)

funk and modern R&B

a hero to many

she is assumed a slave

Stills & Nash

Two new video interviews with music and cultural historian David Huckvale on the film's score and its adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu