Between Water and the Night Sky
Reviewed onDescribed as a work of auto-fiction and based on the lives of Simone Lazaroo’s parents, Between Water and the Night Sky focuses on the lives of Francis and Elspeth, who …
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Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia
Reviewed onJulie Sprigg’s voice in Small Steps: A Physio in Ethiopia has the warmth and familiarity of a close friend sharing an amazing adventure. References to her childhood in country Western …
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Essentially, Many Maps explores the interaction between Western Australia’s First Nation peoples and their European colonisers. Across six chapters, and over 170 years, it ‘maps’ a history that draws upon …
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Ngaginybe Jarragbe: My Story
Reviewed onShirley Purdie comes from a long line of Gija artists from the remote community of Warmun in the East Kimberley. Ngaginybe Jarragbe: My Story is her story. The author/illustrator tells …
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Little Jiang
Reviewed onMei Ling Pang hopes her luck will change when her family moves from China to Australia. However, things don’t look promising in the town of Honeywood. Mei has no friends, …
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We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know by Sophie McNeill is an evocative and powerful book that thrusts readers into the midst of lives and locations devastated by war and oppression. …
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Red Can Origami
Reviewed onWhen young Melbourne journalist Ava lands herself a job in the northwest town of Gubinge, she is warned the ‘country will eat you alive’. Instead, she finds ‘it’s got you …
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In This Desert, There Were Seeds
Reviewed onFor nearly a decade, Writing WA has been building collaborative friendships with literary communities throughout Southeast Asia. In This Desert, There Were Seeds – an anthology of twenty stories from …
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