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October 2007, no. 295
Welcome to the October 2007 issue of
Australian Book Review
.
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Anna Ryan-Punch surveys children's and young adult fiction
by
Anna Ryan-Punch
Advances
Advances: Literary News - October 2007
by
Hidden Author
Law
The Conviction of the Innocent: How the law can let us down
by Chester Porter
by
Philip Selth
Music
The Rite of Spring: 75 Years of ABC music-making
by Martin Buzacott
by
Robert Gibson
Fiction
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
by Mandy Sayer
by
Christina Hill
Fiction
The Children
by Charlotte Wood
by
Stephanie Bishop
History
The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish authors and their publishers in eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland and America
by Richard B. Sher
by
Graham Tulloch
Poetry
The Incoming Tide
by Petra White
by
Andrew Sant
Fiction
The Ghost's Child
by Sonya Hartnett
by
Rebecca Starford
Military History
The Torch and the Sword: A history of the army cadet movement in Australia
by Craig A.J. Stockings
by
Gillian Dooley
Environmental Studies
The Forest Wars
by Judith Ajani
by
Peter Mares
History
The Darker Nations: A people's history of the third world
by Vijay Prashad
by
Brian Stoddart
Searching for Schindler: A memoir
by Tom Keneally
by
Chad Habel
Non-fiction
Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two children tell
by Virginia Lowe
by
Ruth Starke
Politics
Power Without Responsibility?: Ministerial staffers in Australian governments from Whitlam to Howard
by Anne Tiernan
by
John Uhr
Poetry
Divagations
by Stéphane Mallarmé, trans. Barbara Johnson
by
Jill Anderson
Biography
Shakespeare's Wife
by Germaine Greer
by
James Ley
Jamaica
by Malcolm Knox
by
Brian McFarlane
Memoir
Muck
by Craig Sherborne
by
Gay Bilson
Biography
Sunrise West
by Jacob G. Rosenberg
by
Peter Rose
Indigo 1
edited by Donna Ward
by
Georgina Arnott
Poetry
Handfeeding the Crocodile
by Gina Mercer
by
Andrew Burns
History
Forgotten Wars: The end of Britain's Asian emprie
by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
by
Peter Edwards
Media
The Content Makers: Understanding the media in Australia
by Margaret Simons
by
Bridget Griffen-Foley
Cultural Studies
American Notebook: A personal and political journey
by Michael Gawenda
by
Peter Haig
Oh, Yes, Then
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Common Grounds
by
Katherine Gallagher
Biography
The Master
by Sean Fagan and Dally Messenger III
&
The Ballad of Les Darcy
by Peter FiztSimons
by
Braham Dabscheck
Poetry
Necessity: Poems 1996–2006
edited by Barry Hill
by
Nicholas Birns
Journal
Meanjin vol. 66, no. 2
edited by Ian Britain
&
Griffith Review 17
edited by Julianne Schultz
by
Lyn McCredden
Science and Technology
Maralinga: Australia’s nuclear waste cover-up
by Alan Parkinson
by
Wayne Reynolds
Fiction
Long Afternoon of the World
by Graeme Kinross-Smith
by
Shirley Walker
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by
Dean Biron, James Ley, Bruce Haigh
Poetry
Vertigo
edited by Jordie Albiston
&
Awake Despite the Hour
by Paul Mitchell
by
David McCooey
Poetry
A Paddock in His Head
by Brendan Ryan
by
Geoff Page
Music
The Rock History Reader
edited by Theo Cateforis
by
Clem Bastow
Biology
The Silent Deep: The discovery, ecology and conservation of the deep sea
by Tony Koslow
by
Paul Humphries
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