Marginalia

Western Australian Booksellers: The Bodhi Tree, Mount Hawthorn

November 29, 2015 • UWA Publishing • bookshops • reading • The Bodhi Tree

An interview with Karen Kotze, owner of The Bodhi Tree Bookstore and Cafe in Mount Hawthorn.

Western Australian Booksellers: VIVA Books, Busselton

November 13, 2015 • UWA Publishing • bookshops • reading • VIVA BOOKS

Here's one for the readers "down south", a colloquialism that apparently apparently only makes sense to Western Australians. "Where down south?" a Victorian may ask, "where specifically?" Specifically down south, mate, the glorious Southwest, as opposed to "up north" or "further east."

Western Australian Booksellers: Bookcaffe, Swanbourne

November 6, 2015 • UWA Publishing • bookshops

Words by Charlotte Guest, Publishing Officer at UWA Publishing.

Amid the white noise of retail at Christmas, the only kind of White Christmas we get here, it can be difficult to know where to look for gifts. When advertising is rushing at you like you're in Times Square, how can the genuinely valuable rise above the cacophony of rubbish?

The Reading List: recommendations from the On Reading panel session

September 25, 2015 • UWA Publishing • Ande Roestenburg • Claire Jones • reading • research • Ross Gibson • Steve Heath • the reading process • Will Yeoman

Words by UWA Publishing Publishing Officer, Charlotte Guest

At the On Reading panel session, which took place as part of the 2015 WINTERarts Festival, we delved into the subject of reading habits and cognition. The panel was designed as an open forum for exchanging provocations to get us thinking about the ways in which reading practices may shape comprehension and communication. What eventuated was an expansive set of ruminations about where we may be taking reading and where reading may be taking us.

A Publisher’s Take on the Go Set a Watchman mess

September 4, 2015 • UWA Publishing • Go Set a Watchman • marketing

Words by Charlotte Guest, Publishing Officer at UWA Publishing

I know what you’re thinking: the Go Set a Watchman imbroglio has been combed through with the same fastidiousness seen in an anxious parent looking for lice. Perhaps, but I think it’s worth continuing the conversation a little longer in order to assess what this case study tells us about the way marketing works. Set aside the murky ethics of how the manuscript came to be published in the first place, and consider the post-production fall out...