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In the 16th episode of The Bookend, we sit down with a young and emerging writer Esibako Ndabeni from Pretoria, South Africa who is an accomplished author and a certified healer called sangoma in Afrikan. Her debut anthology Born to Kwaito was well-received amongst the fans of post-apartheid music genre Kwaito which originated in a small town of Soweto, Johannesburg in 1990s. Sacred Earth Philosophy, her second book of non-fiction, maps her journey and rite of initiation as a professional sangoma.  

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In the 15th episode, The Bookend has the pleasure of hosting Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz, an MIT alumna and a management consultant by profession, is an award winning poet from the USA. She has published two chapbooks of poetry titled All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents and Power Point. 

Her debut All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents bagged many awards such as San Diego Writers Festival Short Poetry Collection of the year 2024 and California Press Women Communication Prize in Creative Verse 2024. A Pushcart Prize nomination also adds to her honors. 

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In 14th episode of The Bookend, we sit down with Vaijayantee Bhattacharya, an accomplished author, poet, editor with a vast experience in the field of print journalism and publishing industry both in India and Bahrain. 
Mosaic Vision her debut collection inspired by her work and life lived in Bahrain and India - launched in her hometown Kolkata - is an exploration of the sensuous. 

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In episode 13,  The Bookend has the privilege of hosting  Jason L Moore, a lecturer of Philosophy, an instructor in Theology and an accomplished mental health coach from USA whose book Divine Frustrations explores the questions of faith and existence of God from the perspective of a common man.

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In the 12th episode of The Bookend, welcome Carol Ann Davids, an award winning novelist, editor and a publisher from South Africa who has been short listed for the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize 2013, longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2013; longlisted for the inaugural Kawani? Manuscript Project,  and shortlisted for the EU Literary Award in 2012.
Her debut novel The Blacks of Cape Town was a top seller in South Africa and second title How To Be A Revolutionary  won the prestigious Sunday Times Literary Award for best fiction in 2022.

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In the 11th episode of The Bookend, we sit down with Jamie Edelbrock an award-winning  author of children's books, teacher, speaker and a mental health advocate based as an expat in Indonesia. Jamie Edelbrock has authored three wonderful and widely appraised books for children titled as Tangled Up, Be the Sparkel and The Adventures of Little Selfie a recent release which she is busy promoting now a days. The books are remarkable for normalizing and initiating the discussion of mental health issues with children.

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In episode 10, we  welcome our first Bahraini author, novelist, artist and designer Amani Altawash whose debut novel Binat Gulnar has just been released and one of the top selling books in Bahrain. Binat Gulnar is remarkable for its immense scope spanning over many decades starting from the earliest point in 1920 when people from Iran began migrating to Bahrain in small boats and dinghies and for penning down the troubles they faced.

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In the 9th episode of The Bookend, we welcome the South African writer Thandiwe Ntshinga, a researcher, anthropologist, poultry farmer and the author of Black Racist Bitch: How Social Media Reveals South Africa's Unfinished Work on Race. 

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In the 8th episode of The Bookend meet  A R Arthur, an emerging  poet of mixed ethnicities from Middle East whose poems are reflective of his coming-of-age journey while travelling back and forth between the UK. US and Kuwait.  Apart from several publications in literary journals, there are three chapbooks to his credit titled as The Great Northern Journey, Vultures and Half Bred which won The Poetry Question chapbook contest 2021. Currently, AR Arthur is the editor-in-chief of a prestigious literary journal Fahmiden Journal/Publishing.

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In the7th episode of The Bookend , meet Rodney Harper,  an actor, podcaster, author, screenplay writer and a devout follower of Christ whose preachings have been a vital source for his life and creativity spurring on Rodney to write a book titled Drought Stricken. 

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