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November 2003, no. 256
Welcome to the November 2003 issue!
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Australian History
Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily life in a vanished Australia
by Geoffrey Blainey
by
John Hirst
Biography
Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews 'The Murdoch Archipelago' by Bruce Page
by
Bridget Griffen-Foley
History
Alan Atkinson reviews 'Dancing with Strangers' by Inga Clendinnen
by
Alan Atkinson
Language
u r gr8
by
Bruce Moore
Poem
‘For Yette in a Red T-Shirt, Running’ a poem by Jennifer Strauss
by
Jennifer Strauss
Older than Hemingway
by
Rodney Beecham
Fiction
A Blander Shade of Grey
by
Peter Craven
Fiction
Older than Hemingway
by
Rodney Beecham
Poetry
Light and Shadow
by
Martin Duwell
Politics
A Perilous and Fighting Life: : From communist to conservative: The political writings of Professor John Anderson
edited by Mark Weblin
by
Nathan Hollier
Australian Fiction
Lessons from the Heart
by John Clanchy
by
Michael McGirr
Australian History
North of Capricorn: The untold story of Australia’s north
by Henry Reynolds
by
Nicholas Jose
Poetry
The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets
edited by Geoff Page
by
Richard King
Cultural Studies
Nostalgic Social Science
by
Allan Patience
Fiction
Three Dog Night
by Peter Goldsworthy
by
José Borghino
Commentary
J.M. Coetzee
by
Simon Caterson
Commentary
National News
by
Helen Ennis
Essay
The Crack in the Teacup: Reading Hilary Mantel
by
Inga Clendinnen
Fiction
Anything Goes
by
David Matthews
History
Friend's Refresher
by
Damien Kingsbury
Politics
Sowing the Seeds
by
James Walter
Economics
The Ethics of Economic Rationalism
by John Wright
by
Brian Ellis
Fiction
The Outside Story: A novel
by Sylvia Lawson
by
Don Anderson
Film
Don’t Tell Me, Show Me: Directors talk about acting
by Adam Macaulay
by
John Rickard
Fiction
Women on the Rocks: A tale of two convicts
by Kristin Williamson
by
Gillian Dooley
Biography
Positive
by David Menadue
by
Robert Reynolds
History
The West and China since 1500
by John S. Gregory
by
Colin Mackerras
Poems
beautiful, unfinished
by M.T.C. Cronin
by
Lisa Gorton
Letters
Letters - November 2003
by
Australian Book Review
Poetry
The Man and the Map
by Alex Skovron
by
Geoff Page
Poem
‘On La Cienega’ a poem by John Tranter
by
John Tranter
Literary Studies
From a tiny corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch
edited by Gillian Dooley
by
Andrea Goldsmith
Politics
Peace, Order and Good Government: State Constitutional and Parliamentary Reform
edited by Clement Macintyre and John Williams
by
Grant Bailey
Art
Building the Collection
edited by Pauline Green
by
Patricia Anderson
Politics
What Australia Means to Me
by Bob Carr
&
Bob Carr
by Andrew West and Rachel Morris
by
Beverley Kingston
History
Australia’s Battlefields in Viet Nam
by Gary McKay
&
On the Offensive
by Ian McNeill and Ashley Ekins
by
Jeffrey Grey
Children's Non-Fiction
Margaret Robson Kett reviews Five Children's Non-Fiction Books
by
Margaret Robson Kett
Children's Fiction
Virginia Lowe reviews Six Children's Fiction Books
by
Virginia Lowe
Commentary
William Henry Corkhill and the Tilba Tilba Collection
by
Michelle Hetherington
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