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April 1986, no. 79

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Don Dunstan reviews 'Ascent to Power' by Brian Dale, 'The Wran Model: Electoral politics in NSW in 1981 and 1984' edited by Ernie Chaples, Helen Nelson, and Ken Turner, and 'The Bjelke-Peterson Premiership 1968–1983' edited by Allan Patience

The Bunburyists by Anthony Hill

The Man of Slow Feeling by Michael Wilding

Abbreviations

European Vision and the South Pacific by Bernard Smith

'Self Portrait' by Barry Dickins

From Bookstall to Boom: Paperback publishing in Australia

The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger edited by Kay Dreyfus

The Cloud Passes Over by Robert Harris

The Night We Ate the Sparrow: A memoir and fourteen stories by Morris Lurie

Borderline by Janette Turner Hospital

About Tilly Beamis by Sumner Locke Elliott

Nuns in Jeopardy by Martin Boyd

Lasseter: The making of a legend by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

Starters & Writers

What the Dickins! A symposium of the low life by Barry Dickins

A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough

Smokey Dawson: A Life by Herbert Henry Dawson