Author interviews, short stories, extracts, features and discussion about books from around the world
"To write anything worth reading you have to put everything you have into every sentence. There can be no lazy thinking, no clichés, no borrowed tropes, no third-hand experience; there can be no hiding.” Miranda Darling
A pet ring-tailed possum examines a 1943 Department of Information movie camera. Australian War Memorial collection/Wikimedia Commons
THE BOOKANISTA TEAM, led by Farhana Gani, works closely with selected TV and film production companies and a network of literary and specialist book-to-screen agents, publishers and authors, to identify and recommend past, present and future book titles for adaptation for the screen, together with original screenplays and pitch ideas.
Since 2021, eight titles we’ve recommended have been optioned. Watch this space for updates, and join us on this thrilling, entertaining, sometimes precarious adventure as projects go into active development and are greenlit.
Drawing on extensive experience, knowledge and contacts across the TV and publishing industries, our services include in-depth report writing and analysis, and supporting in-house development teams.
