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December 2002-January 2003, no. 247
Welcome to the December 2002-January 2003 issue of
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Fiction
Father Lands
by Emily Ballou
by
Delia Falconer
Advances
Advances December 2002-January 2003
by
Australian Book Review
Fiction
The Giraffe's Uncle
by Les Robinson
&
My Love Must Wait
by Ernestine Hill
by
Elizabeth Webby
Media
Future Active: Media activism and the internet
by Graham Meikle
by
Susan Hawthorne
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by
Sylvia Lawson et al.
Poem
God
by
David McCooey
Poem
My Compliment Is Not A Tulip
by
Luke Beesley
Books of the Year
Best Books of the Year 2002
by
Don Anderson et al.
Gay Studies
The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing
edited by Graeme Aitken
by
Peter Porter
Fiction
Four reissued Australian novels
by
Delys Bird
Memoir
Aviva Tuffield reviews 'The Truth about My Fathers' by Gaby Naher, 'I’m Hungry, Daddy' by Cliff Nichols, and 'The Bean Patch' by Shirley Painter
by
Aviva Tuffield
Travel
Life on the Ice
by Roff Smith
by
Tony Wheeler
Poetry
Kevin Brophy reviews 'City and Stranger' by Aileen Kelly, 'In Your Absence: Poems 1994–2002' by Stephen McInerney, and 'Flying Blind' by Deborah Westbury
by
Kevin Brophy
Travel
Into the Blue: Boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before
by Tony Horwitz
by
Brigid Hains
Fiction
Bearded Ladies/Dreamhouse
by Kate Grenville
&
Joan Makes History
by Kate Grenville
by
Carolyn Tétaz
Fiction
Confessing the Blues
by Anson Cameron
&
Saigon Tea
by Graham Reilly
by
James Bradley
Memoir
Peter Rose reviews 'My Life As Me: A memoir' by Barry Humphries
by
Peter Rose
Australian History
First Fleet to Federation: Irish supremacy in colonial Australia
by Jarlath Ronayne
by
Bob Reece
Fiction
Peter Pierce reviews 'An Angel in Australia' by Tom Keneally
by
Peter Pierce
Indonesia
Three new books on Indonesian politics
by
John Monfries
Society
Common Ground: Issues that should bind and not divide us
by Malcolm Fraser
by
Robert Manne
Australian History
The Ice and the Inland
by Brigid Hains
&
Australia’s Flying Doctors
by Roger McDonald and Richard Woldendorp
by
Libby Robin
Politics
Goodbye Babylon: Further journeys in time and politics
by
by
Neal Blewett
History
Australia’s Democracy
by John Hirst
&
The Citizens’ Bargain
edited by James Walter and Margaret Macleod
by
Patricia Grimshaw
Fiction
To the Islands
by Randolph Stow
&
Tourmaline
by Randolph Stow
by
Thomas Shapcott
History
Frances Devlin-Glass reviews 'Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal possession' by Barry Hill
by
Frances Devlin-Glass
Fiction
Matthew Flinders’ Cat
by Bryce Courtenay
by
Gillian Dooley
Poetry
Skins
by Sarah Hay
by
Stephanie Green
Fiction
Crime of Silence
by Patricia Carlon
&
The Unquiet Night
by Patricia Carlon
by
Sydney Smith
Australian History
The Commonwealth of Speech: An Argument about Australia’s Past, Present and Future
by Alan Atkinson
by
Beverley Kingston
History
Radical Students
by Alan Barcan
&
The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor
by Raymond Priestly (ed. Ronald Ridley)
by
Michael Crennan
Books of the Year
Best Children's and Young Adult Books of the Year 2002
by
Archie Fusillo et al.
Education
Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age
edited by Ilana Snyder
by
Paul Kane
Biography
Between Mexico and Poland
by Alice Spigelman
by
Lily Brett
Australian Fiction
Walking Naked
by Alyssa Brugman
&
The Barrumbi Kids
by Leonie Norrington
by
Judith Ridge
Children's Fiction
Dianne Schallmeiner reviews 4 CYA picture books
by
Dianne Schallmeiner
Non-fiction
John Lack reviews ‘The Oromo in Exile’ by Greg Gow, ‘From White Australia to Woomera’ by James Jupp, and ‘Mixed Matches’ by Jane Duncan Owen
by
John Lack
Children's Non-Fiction
Stella Lees reviews Seven Children's Non-Fiction Books
by
Stella Lees
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