Small Publishers Spotlight: Magabala Books

Small Publishers Spotlight: Magabala Books

Hi everyone. Over the next few months, I aim to write posts featuring a small press/publisher which highlight recent or upcoming books, or past titles yet to be reviewed for the challenge. My first post is on a press that focuses on Indigenous literature. ~ Apart from...
October – December 2016 Roundup: Diversity

October – December 2016 Roundup: Diversity

Happy holidays to all our wonderful readers and AWW participants. I hope this finds you keeping cool in some form or another, be it beneath shady trees or at the beach, and of course that you have a book to hand! Of 348 reviews over the past three months, some 10%...
October 2016 Roundup: Historical Fiction

October 2016 Roundup: Historical Fiction

Considering the weather is warming up and the silly season is fast approaching, I’m very surprised by the amount of reviews this month – 22 reviews of 17 books by 16 authors. The author with two books reviewed is Anna Romer – 1 review for Thornwood...
July – September 2016 Roundup: Diversity

July – September 2016 Roundup: Diversity

At the end of July, as part of our Celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Writing, we featured an interview with Indigenous writer Melissa Lucashenko. Following on from this, it’s great to see a good number of reviews of Indigenous women’s...
July Round up – History, Memoir, Biography (HMB)

July Round up – History, Memoir, Biography (HMB)

July was a quiet HMB review month. Hopefully, though, that means you’re all halfway through some fabulous non-fiction right now. Helen Garner’s Everywhere I Look was our only double up review this month, with reviews from Sue @Whispering Gums and myself...