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October 2004, no. 265
Welcome to the October 2004 issue of
Australian Book Review.
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Full Contents
Commentary
PEN: The Castro Paradox
by
Chip Rolley
Politics
This Country: A reconciled republic?
by Mark McKenna
by
Larissa Behrendt
Fiction
The Thompson Gunner
by Nick Earls
by
Thuy On
Biography
Wildflowering: The life and places of Kathleen McArthur
by Margaret Somerville
by
Sylvia Martin
Fiction
Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1
by John Birmingham
by
Simon Caterson
Journalism
Traveller's Tales
edited by Trevor Bormann
&
Lost in Transmission
by Jonathan Harley
by
Morag Fraser
Politics
Understanding Peacekeeping
by Alex J. Bellamy, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin
&
Other People's Wars
by Peter Londey
by
Wayne Reynolds
Short Stories
The Turning
by Tim Winton
by
James Ley
Philosophy
The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism revisited
by John Carroll
by
Dirk den Hartog
Feminism
The Long Sexual Revolution: English women, sex and contraception 1800-1975
by Hera Cook
by
Lisa Featherstone
Fiction
The Chronicle of Isaac Quirk
by Michael Read
by
Geraldine Brooks
Anthology
The Best Australian Profiles
edited by Matthew Ricketson
by
Richard Walsh
Biography
Ruxton: A biography
by Anne Blair
by
Peter Ryan
Diaries
Race Against Time: The diaries of F.S.Kelly
edited by Thérèse Radic
by
John Thompson
Poem
‘Uncles and Aunties’, a new poem by Brendan Ryan
by
Brendan Ryan
Poem
‘I build a little house where our hearts once lived’, a poem by Joel Deane
by
Joel Deane
Fiction
Ophelia's Fan
by Christine Balint
&
Always East
by Michael Jacobson
by
Carolyn Tétaz
Military History
On Shaggy Ridge
by Phillip Bradley
&
Kokoda
by Peter FitzSimons
by
John Coates
Memoir
Night Thoughts in Time of War
by Bob Ellis
by
Josh Wilson
Sport
More Than a Game: The real story of the Australian Rules Football
edited by Rob Hess and Bob Stewart
by
Christopher Bantick
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Girl Underground
by Morris Gleitzman
&
Tiff and the Trout
by David Metzenthen
by
Margaret MacNabb
Philosophy
Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century
edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell
by
Peter McPhee
Military History
Living by the sword?: The ethics of armed intervention
by Tom Frame
by
James Upcher
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