GINSIGHTS
at Big River Distillery
GINSIGHTS: EMMA PEI YIN
Thursday 4th September - 6pm
Big River, 1 Dairy Road Fyshwick
CWF Partners Big River Distilling Co, Paperchain Bookstore and MARION welcome guest author Emma Pei Yin..
Emma is an Australian-Hong Kong Chinese writer and editor. Her work has been featured in publications such as Mekong Review, Being Asian Australian, Her Canberra, Aniko Press, The Hong Kong Review and Books + Publishing.
When Sleeping Women Wake is at once monumental and intimate, heartbreaking and hopeful, exploring the unbreakable bonds that unite women. Through the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, and as war rages around them, each woman holds onto the hope that the others are alive. Can they fight for their freedom and still find their way back to each other? This epic and emotional story has been widely acclaimed since it was released in June 2025. Victoria Purman, the well-known Australian author of women’s historical fiction says When Sleeping Women Wake has: ‘All the things I love in a book: strong women, untold history and a rollicking story’.
Presented in partnership with the Big River Distilling Co, Paperchain Bookstore and MARION.
GINSIGHTS: EDMUND GOLDRICK
Thursday 18th September - 6pm
Big River, 1 Dairy Road Fyshwick
CWF Partners Big River Distilling Co, Paperchain Bookstore and MARION welcome guest author Edmund Goldrick.
Edmund grew up in Canberra, and after studying at Australian National University went on to work as a political and strategic studies researcher and journalist in the United Kingdom.
Told through the eyes of two of Australian escapees from a prisoner of war camp in Europe in WWII - mineworker Ross Sayers and storeman Ronald Jones - Anzac Guerrillas is the incredible true story of how these men became resistance fighters, double agents and spies, evading the Nazis and exposing a group of genocidal collaborators. The escaped Anzacs faced grave threats from all sides, and even as they came face-to-face with two of World War II's most divisive figures - Josip Broz Tito and Draza Mihailovic - their sense of what was right never wavered. Finding allies and sympathisers among Jewish refugees, British agents and suffragette resistance fighters, those who made it home alive had to fight to have their work with British Intelligence recognised. Once recognition was granted, they seldom spoke of their experiences again. The war would continue to haunt them, and their stories would remain untold, even to those closest to them - until now.
Presented in partnership with the Big River Distilling Co, Paperchain Bookstore and MARION.
