Australian Book Review

October 1980, no. 25

October 1980, no. 25

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Full Contents

Commentary

John McLaren on the 1980 federal election

by John McLaren

Commentary

Soundings column | Michele Field on the literary prize

by Michele Field

Film

The New Australian Cinema edited by Murray Scott

Letters

Letters to the Editor - October 1980

by Australian Book Review

Politics

Craig McGregor on writing about Bill Hayden

by Craig McGregor

Politics

Diplomatic Witness: Australian foreign affairs 1941-1947 by Paul Hasluck

by Geoffrey Williams

Literary Studies

Christopher Brennan: A critical biography by Axel Clark

by David English

Anthology

Ballades of Old Bohemia: An anthology of Louis Esson edited by Hugh Anderson

Biography

Bob Hawke by Robert Pullan & Hawke by John Hurst

Biography

Turgenev: The Quest for Faith by Robert Dessaix

by Judith Armstrong

Selected Writing

Occasional Writings and Speeches by Manning Clark

by Stuart Macintyre

Fiction

Homesickness by Murray Bail & Monkeys in the Dark by Blanche d’Alpuget

History

Whirlwinds in the Plain by Elsie M. Webster & The Mystery of Ludwig Leichhardt by Gordon Connell

Memoir

Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James

by Nancy Keesing

Photography

Patterns of Australia by Geoffrey Dutton

Anthology

Visions of Mowanjum: Aboriginal Writings from the Kimberley by Daisy Utemomorrah et al; Maisie McKenzie

by David Martin

Biography

Suharto’s Indonesia by Hamish McDonald

Politics

Drug Traffic, narcotics and organized crime in Australia by Alfred W. McCoy

by George Munster

Politics

Agenda for the Eighties: Contexts of Australian choices in foreign defence policy edited by Coral Bell

by Geoffrey Williams

A Dream of Islands: Voyages of self-discovery in the south seas: John Williams, Herman Melville, Walter Murray Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Gaugin by Gavan Daws

by Bernard Smith