by Marisa Wikramanayake | Mar 24, 2017 | Round-ups
As always before we start, I wish to pay my respects to the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which I work, live and play: the Whajuk/Nyoongar people. May your campfires be always burning. This land was never seceded and has always been and always will...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Mar 18, 2017 | Interviews, Podcast episodes
We are back and in our second episode for 2017, we chat to Tinashe Jakwa. Tinashe Jakwa is a Zimbabwean born, now Perth based writer. She analyses all things political in Southern Africa as part of her work for Foreign Brief but is also pursuing a Masters of...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Feb 24, 2017 | Interviews, Round-ups
It’s 2017 and I am writing this to you from Nyoongar country in WA on which I live, work and play with acknowledgement of and respect to the elders and the traditional custodians of the Whadjuk/Nyoongar people – on land that never was and never will be...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Feb 23, 2017 | Interviews, Podcast episodes
We are back this year with another round of interviews via podcasts for you. And to kick start the year off, we have Raifeif Ismail, political candidate, medical student, woman of colour, activist, former child refugee from Sudan and also now a published author. Her...
by Marisa Wikramanayake | Jan 27, 2017 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
As always let us start with the numbers. Non-fiction numbers soared last year. We had 83 reviews of 60 books by 64 authors. Helen Garner had the most titles reviewed with four titles. But what else did you read in 2016? 2016 seemed to bring politics right into our...