Australian Book Review

November 2008, no. 306

November 2008, no. 306

Welcome to the November 2008 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Full Contents

Fiction

Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy

by Christina Hill

Fiction

Wanting by Richard Flanagan

by Geordie Williamson

Fiction

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough

by Adrian Mitchell

Fiction

Ice by Louis Nowra

Fiction

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas

Photography

The Henson Case by David Marr

Biography

Biography: The Past has a Great Future

by Richard Holmes

Literary Studies

Children’s Literature: A reader’s history, from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer

Commentary

‘A ‘Change Election’: The US presidential campaign’ by Don DeBats

Commentary

‘Reflections on a revival of the Doll’ by Ian Callinan

by Ian Callinan

Biography

Dame Joan Hammond: Love and Music by Sara Hardy

by Sylvia Martin

Fiction

Dissection by Jacinta Halloran

Science and Technology

Ian Gibbins reviews 'Mirroring People', 'The Meaning of The Body', The Stuff of Thought', and 'Mirrors in the Brain'

Journal

Blue Dog Vol. 7 No. 13 edited by Grant Caldwell

by Maria Takolander

Journals

HEAT 17: A Dodo Idiom edited by Ivor Indyk

by Maria Takolander

Fiction

Heavy Allies by Wayne Grogan

Journals

Meanjin Vol. 67 No. 3 edited by Sophie Cunningham

by Maria Takolander

Fiction

The Daughters of Moab by Kim Westwood

by Lisa Bennett

Short Stories

Where I Stand by Serge Liberman

Science and Technology

Making the Cut by Anthony Elliott & Skintight by Meredith Jones

by Katie Wright

Australian History

Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826 by Geoffrey Bolton

by Jenny Gregory

Biography

Manning Clark: A life by Brian Matthews

by Stuart Macintyre

Art

Misty Moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915–1950 by Tracey Lock-Weir

by Wendy Walker

Memoir

Mother Land by Dmetri Kakmi

by Patrick Allington

Memoir

Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

by Jonathon Otis

Biology

Koala by Stephen Jackson & Koala by Ann Moyal

by Peter Menkhorst

Young Adult Fiction

Goodbye Jamie Boyd by Elizabeth Fensham & Saltwater Moons by Julie Gittus

Biography

Tabloid Man: The life and times of Ezra Norton by Sandra Hall

by Bridget Griffen-Foley

Memoir

The Costello Memoirs: The age of prosperity by Peter Costello and Peter Coleman

by Neal Blewett

Poetry

The Golden Bird: New and selected poems by Robert Adamson

Politics

The Limits of Power:: The end of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich

by Brendon O'Connor

Music

Wagner Beyond Good and Evil by John Deathridge

by Robert Gibson

Poetry

White Knight with Beebox: New and selected poems by Peter Steele

by Paul Hetherington

Advances

Advances - November 2008

by Australian Book Review

Letters

Letters - November 2008

by Australian Book Review

Non-fiction

Behind the Exclusive Brethren by Michael Bachelard

by Lyndon Megarrity