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April 2008, no. 300
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Commentary
Leap of Imagination
by
Darleen Bungey
Advances
'Long live independent publishing' - ABR at 300
by
Peter Rose et al.
Travel
American Journeys
by Don Watson
by
Glyn Davis
Biography
An Exacting Heart: The story of Hephzibah Menuhin
by Jacqueline Kent
by
Peter Rose
Poem
'Dreaming at the Speed of Light' by Stephen Edgar
by
Stephen Edgar
Poem
‘Ghost Train to Australia’ by Clive James
by
Clive James
Poetry
Revolving Days: Selected Poems
by David Malouf
by
David McCooey
Biography
Roma the First: A biography of Dame Roma Mitchell
by Susan Magarey and Kerry Round
by
Alison Broinowski
Not Taking Sides
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Economics
Herd mentality
by
Geoffrey Blainey
Philosophy
Brothers under the skin
by
Tamas Pataki
Commentary
The third element in biography
by
Jacqueline Kent
Non-fiction
Swings and roundabouts
by
Neil Clerehan
Australian History
The Dreaming Place
by
Peter Cochrane
Non-fiction
The Book of Braggs
by
Ian Rae
Burke and Wills and King and Howitt
by
Carol Middleton
Cut and Style
by
Susan Sheridan
Two Cultures Revisited
by
Adrian Mitchell
Judith Armstrong reviews 'The Biographer' by Virginia Duigan
by
Judith Armstrong
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Three non-fiction books
by
Gillian Dooley, Petra White and Stephanie Owen Reeder
Fiction
The spellbinder
by
Brian McFarlane
Biography
'Thinking black'
by
Nicholas Brown
Picture Books
Waltzing as one
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
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Australian Book Review
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by
Christina Hill, George Dunford and Jo Case
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by
Georgie Arnott
Enigmatic Kemp
by
Sarah Scott
The Spellbinder
by
Brian McFarlane
The graphomaniac
by
Sarah Kanowski
Voices of the Dark
by
Rebecca Starford
Submersive History
by
Tom Frame
Too Much Territory
by
Peter Mares
Memory's beautiful mariner
by
Anthony Lynch
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