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September 2006, no. 284
Welcome to the September 2006 issue of
Australian Book Review
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ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Peter Mares reviews 'Unravelling Identity: Immigrants, identity and citizenship in Australia' by Trevor Batrouney and John Goldlust, and 'Borderwork in multicultural Australia' by Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll
by
Peter Mares
Memoir
At Thy Call: We did not falter
by Clive Holt
by
Jay Thompson
Poetry
The Goldfinches of Baghdad
by Robert Adamson
by
Jaya Savige
Literary Studies
Assassin in the orchard
by
Peter Rose
Australian History
A History of New South Wales
by Beverley Kingston
by
Alan Atkinson
Fiction
Poinciana
by Jane Turner Goldsmith
by
Annie Condon
Memoir
The Memoirs of Zelman Cowen: A public life
by Zelman Cowen
by
Barry Jones
Poetry
Blue grass
by Peter Minter
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Australian History
Francis de Groot: Irish fascist, Australian legend
by Andrew Moore
by
Dan Toner
Australian Poetry
Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry
edited by Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith
by
David McCooey
Short Stories
Dark Roots
by Cate Kennedy
by
Delia Falconer
Fiction
Border Street
by Suzanne Leal
by
Denise O'Dea
Fiction
Murder in the Dark
by Kerry Greenwood
by
Emily Fraser
Commentary
'Coetzee’s Freedom' by Gillian Dooley
by
Gillian Dooley
Poetry
The Passenger
by Laurie Duggan
by
Jennifer Strauss
Biography
Ida Leeson: A life
by Sylvia Martin
by
Jill Roe
Fiction
The Unexpected Elements of Love
by Kate Legge
by
Jo Case
Australian History
What If?: Australian history as it might have been
edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer
by
John Hirst
Fiction
India Vik
by Liz Gallois
by
Kabita Dhara
Politics
Quarterly Essay 22: Voting for Jesus: Christianity and politics in Australia
by Amanda Lohrey
by
Marion Maddox
Journalism
This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932–1983
by Ken Inglis
by
Morag Fraser
Advances
Advances - September 2006
by
Australian Book Review
Letters
Letters - September 2006
by
Australian Book Review
Non-fiction
A shape, if only a shape
by
Gail Jones
Politics
How wrong they were
by
Geoff Gallop
Journals
The jostle of selfhoods
by
Geordie Williamson
Biography
Washing the blood off the wall
by
Grant Bailey
Essay Collection
Through the looking glass
by
James Ley
Australian History
Missed opportunity
by
Paul Brunton
Non-fiction
Citizenship and belonging
by
Peter Mares
Non-fiction
Write Home for Me: A red cross woman in Vietnam
by Jean Debelle Lamensdorf
by
Rebecca Starford
Politics
Reconnecting Labor
by Barry Donovan
&
Coming to the Party
edited by Barry Jones
by
James Walter
Poem
‘Howe Hill’ by Bruce Pascoe
by
Bruce Pascoe
‘The Greenshank’ by Robert Adamson
by
Robert Adamson
Fiction
Vale Byron Bay
by Wayne Grogan
&
Tuvalu
by Andrew O’Connor
by
Owen Richardson
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Ruth Starke reviews seven children's books
by
Ruth Starke
Literary Studies
To Exercise Our Talents: The democratization of writing in Britain
by Christopher Hilliard
by
Stuart Macintyre
Essay
‘Celluloid Junkies’ by Nick Prescott
by
Nick Prescott
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