by Janine Rizzetti | Jan 24, 2018 | Round-ups, Yearly wrap-up
Congratulations fellow-readers! During 2017, there were 208 reviews of a total of 144 books in the History, Memoir and Biography genre. While it’s a slippery distinction between ‘Non Fiction’ and ‘History Memoir and Biography’, this is an...
by bernadetteinoz | Oct 20, 2017 | Round-ups
Since the last crime round up AWW reviewers have paid a lot of attention to the flurry of second books being published by our latest crop of emerging talents. Among the accolades she received for her debut novel THE DRY Jane Harper won this year’s Davitt Award...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Oct 13, 2017 | Interviews
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Odette Kelada, author of Drawing Sybylla, a novel that explores the real and imagined lives of Australia’s writing women. ~~~~ In your acknowledgements for Drawing Sybylla, you tell us that it is a story that emerged from...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Sep 29, 2017 | News
Winner of the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript, Drawing Sybylla is a novel about the challenges women writers have faced in pursuing the writing life. On stage, a woman named Sybil Jones is making a speech. She is talking about the...
by Brona68 | Sep 11, 2017 | Round-ups
Non-fiction (general) tends to be the genre standing wallflower-like in the corner at the AWW party, waiting to be asked to dance. Reviews have been light on this month, but I’m determined to bring Baby out of the corner to let her shine! Sadly half the reviews...
