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September 2006, no. 284

September 2006, no. 284

Welcome to the September 2006 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Full Contents

Poetry

The Goldfinches of Baghdad by Robert Adamson

Literary Studies

Assassin in the orchard

Australian History

A History of New South Wales by Beverley Kingston

Fiction

Poinciana by Jane Turner Goldsmith

Poetry

Blue grass by Peter Minter

Australian History

Francis de Groot: Irish fascist, Australian legend by Andrew Moore

Australian Poetry

Windchimes: Asia in Australian Poetry edited by Noel Rowe and Vivian Smith

Short Stories

Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy

Fiction

Border Street by Suzanne Leal

Fiction

Murder in the Dark by Kerry Greenwood

Poetry

The Passenger by Laurie Duggan

Biography

Ida Leeson: A life by Sylvia Martin

Fiction

The Unexpected Elements of Love by Kate Legge

Australian History

What If?: Australian history as it might have been edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer

Fiction

India Vik by Liz Gallois

Essay Collection

Through the looking glass

Australian History

Missed opportunity

Non-fiction

Write Home for Me: A red cross woman in Vietnam by Jean Debelle Lamensdorf

Politics

Reconnecting Labor by Barry Donovan & Coming to the Party edited by Barry Jones

Fiction

Vale Byron Bay by Wayne Grogan & Tuvalu by Andrew O’Connor

Children's and Young Adult Fiction

Ruth Starke reviews seven children's books