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December 2004–January 2005, no. 267

December 2004–January 2005, no. 267

Welcome to the December 2004–January 2005 issue of Australian Book Review.

ONLINE ONLY
 

Full Contents

Poetry

Afterburner by Peter Porter

Memoir

Arguments with England: A memoir by Michael Blakemore

Children's and Young Adult Fiction

The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett & Camel Rider by Prue Mason

Fiction

Drown Them in the Sea by Nicholas Angel & The Hanging Tree by Jillian Watkinson

Politics

Fatal Attraction by Bruce Grant & How to Kill a Country by Linda Weiss, Elizabeth Thurbon and John Mathews

Nature Writing

Gardenesque by Richard Aitken & The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens edited by Richard Aitken and Michael Looker

Psychology

Hiding from Humanity by Martha C. Nussbaum

Fiction

Leavetaking by Joy Hooton & Temple of the Grail by Adriana Koulias

Politics

Mark Latham by Barry Donovan & Quarterly Essay by Margaret Simons

Fiction

Seeing George by Cassandra Austin & Backwaters by Robert Engwerda

Essay Collection

The Best Australian Essays 2004 edited by Robert Dessaix

Art

The Art of War by Betty Churcher

Poetry

The Best Australian Poetry 2004 edited by Anthony Lawrence & The Best Australian Poems 2004 edited by Les Murray

Food

The Cook's Companion by Stephanie Alexander & Plenty by Gay Bilson

Opera

The Nibelung’s Ring by Peter Basset & The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera edited by David Charlton

Biography

The Persian Blanket by Tim Chappell & Not Paradise by Anna Rosner Blay

Picture Books

There Once Was A Boy Called Tashi by Anna Fienberg and Barbara Fienberg, illustrated by Kim Gamble & The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard by Gregory Rogers

Literary Studies

Cultural Studies Review edited by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke & Griffith Review 5 edited by Julianne Schultz

Poetry

Under a Medlar Tree by Syd Harrex & Head and Shin by Tim Thorne

Memoir

Wild Life by John Dale

Fiction

Wild Lavender by Belinda Alexandra

Memoir

War Babies: A Memoir by Robert Macklin

Technology

Virtual Nation: The internet in Australia edited by Gerard Goggin

Literary Studies

Vintage: Celebrating ten years of the Mildura writers' festival edited by Donata Carrazza and Paul Kane