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Geoffrey Radcliffe

The Music of Man by Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis W. Davis & The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium by Gerald Durrell

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April 1980, no. 19
Geoffrey Radcliffe Reviews ‘The Music of Man’ By Yehudi Menuhina and Curtis W. Davis, ‘The Picnic and Suchlike Pandemonium’ By Gerald Durrell, and ‘The Americans: Fifty Letters from America on Our Life and Times’ By Alistair Cooke

Irrespective of their countries of origin, books by remarkable men must command attention in the expectation that they will add to or consolidate knowledge, provide grounds for thought or useful debate or, hopefully, entertain.

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Confederates by Thomas Keneally

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February–March 1980, no. 18
Geoffrey Radcliffe reviews 'Confederates' by Thomas Keneally

On one of the early chaotic army days of World War II in France, I was combining the disagreeable tasks of eating and censoring letters home written by the men in my section.

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Australian Writers: An illustrated guide to their lives and work by Graeme Kinross-Smith

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February–March 1980, no. 18
Geoffrey Radcliffe reviews 'Australian Writers: An illustrated guide to their lives and work' by Graeme Kinross-Smith

Normally, Australia’s Writers could be expected to attract the special attention of critics. However, by sensible use of his preface and the quality of his book’s contents, Graeme Kinross Smith has minimised the possibility of adverse comment. Carefully, he sets out the guidelines adopted for the fifty­four essays that range from two to ten pages each, starting with Captain Arthur Phillip and closing with Rosemary Dobson. Stressing ‘the distinctive and fascinating’ tradition of Australian literature and the book’s purpose in giving an insight into that tradition, Graeme Kinross Smith writes:

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