January 9, 2010

Book review: Boris Akunin’s Pelagia & the Black Monk

Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Russian author Boris Akunin’s second novel in the Pelagia crime fiction series: Pelagia & the Black Monk. This review was previously published on Blogcritics.com [...]

October 6, 2009

Book Review – Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals

Marisa Wikramanayake reviews Terry Pratchett’s latest novel in the Discworld Series, Unseen Academicals and lists links to buy the book online. Sometimes you just get lucky.

Lucky is what I am. Terry Pratchett’s latest novel Unseen Academicals gets released today (Oct. 6th) in the United States but if you are in Australia, it’s already out in hardcover in the stores for $49.95 AUD. Amazon has it here for $14.03 USD. [...]

May 28, 2009

Book Review: Pelagia & The White Bulldog

Marisa Wikramanayake is a freelance editor and writer. Here, she reviews Boris Akunin’s Pelagia & The White Bulldog, the first in a crime fiction series involving a nun as the detective and set in 19th Century rural Russia. [...]

May 2, 2009

Book Review Published: Graham Greene’s May We Borrow Your Husband?

Marisa Wikramanayake is a freelance writer and editor based in Perth, Australia. In this entry, she reviews Graham Greene’s May We Borrow Your Husband? published in 1967. Marisa has been blogging since 1998 and she is currently writing her second novel, a historical work, a poetry collection and a collection of the best work from the Perth Diary columns that she writes for the weekly Sunday Leader newspaper. When she isn’t too tired from all that she reviews music for RTR and books for Compendium. Then she plays with the cat and plays drums in an indie rock band. [...]