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November 2005, no. 276
Welcome to the November 2005 issue of
Australian Book Review
!
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Advances
Advances | November 2005
by
Hidden Author
Politics
Neal Blewett reviews 'Losing It' by Annabel Crabb, 'Loner: Inside a Labor tragedy' by Bernard Lagan, and 'The Latham Diaries' by Mark Latham
by
Neal Blewett
Theatre
Brian McFarlane reviews a production of ‘Ivanov’
by
Brian McFarlane
Fiction
Prochownik's Dream
by Alex Miller
by
James Bradley
Biography
The Tyrannicide Brief: The story of the man who sent Charles I to the scaffold
by Geoffrey Robertson
by
John Button
Poem
‘Comfort (Hansel to Gretel in the Darkness)’ a poem by Kate Middleton
by
Kate Middleton
Poem
‘Pomegranate Duty’ a poem by Keith Harrison
by
Keith Harrison
Poem
‘Waterview Street’ a poem by Dorothy Porter
by
Dorothy Porter
Letters
Letters - November 2005
by
Hidden Author
Indigenous Studies
Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History
by Bain Attwood
by
A. Dirk Moses
Memoir
My Life
by David Lange
by
Barry Jones
Poetry
Latecomers
by Jaya Savige
by
Chris Edwards
Fiction
Beyond The Legend
by Noni Durack
&
Out Of The Silence
by Wendy James
by
Christina Hill
Essay
La Trobe University Essay | ‘A Shelf of Our Own: Creative Writing and Australian Literature’ by Nicholas Jose
by
Nicholas Jose
Fiction
There, Where the Pepper Grows
by Bem Le Hunte
&
Behind the Moon
by Hsu-Ming Teo
by
Lisa Gorton
Non-fiction
Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s invisible migrants
by A. James Hammerton and Alistair Thomson
by
Mark Peel
Literary Studies
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
by Walter Kalaidjian
by
Heather Neilson
Film Studies
Roy Ward Baker
by Geoff Mayer
by
Wendy Haslem
Military History
Beyond belief: The British bomb tests: Australia’s veterans speak out
by Roger Cross and Avon Hudson
by
Wayne Reynolds
Australian History
Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo case and Indigenous resistance to English settler colonialism
by Peter H. Russell
by
Tim Rowse
Non-fiction
Making ‘Black Harvest’: Warfare, filmmaking and living dangerously in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
by Bob Connolly
by
Sarah Kanowski
Art
Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial women artists and the amateur tradition
by Caroline Jordan
by
Sarah Russell Scott
Biography
The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg
by Iain Topliss
by
Robert Phiddian
Film Studies
The Cinema of Britain and Ireland
edited by Brian McFarlane
by
Richard Johnstone
Literary Studies
Dating Aphrodite: Modern adventures in the ancient world
by Luke Slattery
by
Peter Steele
Poetry
The Ancient Capital of Images
by John Mateer
&
The Yellow Dress
by Yve Louis
by
Michael Sariban
Australian History
Yarra
by Kristin Otto
&
The Vision Splendid
by Richard Waterhouse
by
Mark McKenna
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Young Murphy
by Gary Crew, illustrated by Mark Wilson
&
101 Great Killer Creatures
by Paul Holper and Simon Torok, illustrated by Stephen Axelsen
by
Margaret Robson Kett
Art
Disclosing Spaces: On painting
by Andrew Benjamin
by
Luke Morgan
Fiction
Snow Wings
by Jutta Goetze
&
The Rat and The Raven
by Kerry Greenwood
by
Karen Brooks
Short Stories
The Child Is Wise: Stories of childhood
by Janet Blagg
by
Joy Hooton
Non-fiction
Someone Else’s Country
by Peter Docker
by
Jaya Savige
Non-fiction
Of Marriage, Violence and Sorcery: The quest for power in Northern Queensland
by David McKnight
by
Inga Clendinnen
Fiction
You Gotta Have Balls
by Lily Brett
by
Ilana Snyder
Fiction
The True Green of Hope
by N.A. Bourke
&
The Eyes of The Tiger
by Manfred Jurgensen
by
Gaylene Perry
Natural History
The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed
by Julia Horne
by
Delia Falconer
Memoir
Dora B.: A memoir of my mother
by Josiane Behmoiras
by
Felicity Bloch
True Crime
Getting Away with Murder
by Phil Cleary
&
Norfolk: Island of secrets
by Tim Latham
by
John Dale
Fiction
Pressure Point
by Greg Baker
&
The Millionaire Float
by Kirsty Brooks
by
Simon Caterson
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