by whisperinggums | Jan 9, 2018 | Yearly wrap-up
As AA Milne famously wrote “now we are six”, and I think he’d agree that we’ve had a pretty clever year. With our review database growing by over 20% from around 3,600 books reviewed to over 4,400 (which you can find on our Books Reviewed for...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Jul 17, 2017 | Round-ups
Welcome to Issue 6 of the Historical Fiction Round Up. It’s been a bit of a quieter month for historical fiction this time around with 26 reviews on 19 novels; this is 15 novels down from the last couple of months, although, when I did my search for this month, I did...
by TheresaSmithWrites | Jun 18, 2017 | Interviews, Spotlights
Welcome to Sunday Spotlight. Today we feature Kelly Gardiner, whose latest novel, 1917, was released on 1 February 2017. When did you start writing and what was the catalyst? I’ve always written stories and poetry, and worked as a journalist for years,...
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 ladyredjess | Jan 27, 2017 | Yearly wrap-up
As I put this wrap-up together yesterday (on Australia Day), I thought about the many different voices that chorus on this continent and how privileged we are to hear them. AWW’s readers were certainly listening in 2016! There were 27 reviews of books by Indigenous...
