Mo Zistwar

Online bookstore in Australia 🇦🇺 specialising in Mauritian Literature 🇲🇺

25/04/2026

.bookcrawl.australia in Melbourne CBD and finding some Mauritian authors among the bookshelves 🙌🏾 🇲🇺

12/04/2026

Weekend ebook: ‘Passing’ (1929) by Nella Larsen 🫶🏾

14/03/2026

Mauritian Independence Day Party 🇲🇺 great food, cool music and even better company

01/02/2026

Today, 1st of February 2026, marks the 191st anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Mauritius. Reading ‘Enslaved Women in Mauritius 1721-1835: An Overview’ by Vijaya Teelock (Women in the making of Mauritian history, 2021). Here extract from the article:

‘We have no way of knowing what enslaved women went through, what they thought or felt... The ‘quality’ of life depended very much on the whims of their owner, the commandeur (slave driver) and their husband or companion, if they had one. What were the consequences of slavery on their physical and mental health? What did they eat, drink and how did they look after their children? How did they maintain a semblance of family life when the family could be broken up at any time?‘.

14/01/2026

Rainbow lorikeets at sunset 🦜🦜
Swan Hill, North West Victoria
Wednesday 14 January; 8.30pm

13/01/2026

‘Determined to say something and leave a mark with nothing but pen and paper. Prepared for battle. Who am? A mere mortal’.

Extract from - Nilotic EP 12’ Vinyl (2022).

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31/12/2025

In ‘Portrait of an Island on Fire’, Ariel Saramandi challenges the reader to think of Mauritius more deeply. Saramandi takes us beyond the headlines and the picture-perfect luminous sea. What we see, what we want others to see and what is beneath is complex and challenging. We are so many things, all at once, all of the time...

Last blog post for 2025! Link in bio or here: https://linktr.ee/mozistwar

30/12/2025

The 2025 book stats are in…

📕 I discovered Freida McFadden! I always like thrillers and she did not disappoint.

📘I read some Australian stories (‘the mushroom tapes’ was the best)

📔I dived into the unsettling world of Mauritian authors with and

📗I finally read a classic on my ‘want to read’ list - ‘Bonjour tristesse’ by Françoise Sagan.

📚 I read hard copies, ebooks and listened to audiobooks (especially during my long drives and train trips 🚂 ). Sometimes I did both the book and the audiobook simultaneously. So many ways of reading!

📖 What a great year of reading and listening! Cheers to 2026 and discovering new authors and so many more stories.

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas 🎄

30/11/2025

New Books added to .au collection 📚
link in bio or https://www.mozistwar.au/books 🇲🇺🇷🇪

21/11/2025

Some light reading for long train travel… Reminiscing about my Ala Mater and finding out that Marie-Thérèse Humbert also spent part of her education at BPS college 💙

‘La mission de Mère Marie Augustine. De l’île Maurice jusqu’au bout du monde’ (2000) by the Congrégation de Bon-Secours et Amédée Nagapen.

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