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October 2008, no. 305
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Fiction
Arabesques: A tale of double lives
by Robert Dessaix
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Commentary
'Missing from my own life' by Elisabeth Holdsworth
by
Elisabeth Holdsworth
Poem
‘We Being Ghosts’ by Clive James
by
Clive James
Fiction
The Sinkings
by Amanda Curtin
by
Stephanie Green
Biography
Doing Life: A biography of Elizabeth Jolley
by Brian Dibble
by
Delys Bird
Australian Fiction
The Lieutenant
by Kate Grenville
by
James Bradley
Fiction
Vertigo
by Amanda Lohrey
by
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Theatre
‘Not tonight, paleface’
by
Michael Morley
Short Stories
Drowning, not waving
by
Jeffrey Poacher
Australian History
Australia’s Empire
edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward
by
Stuart Macintyre
Memoir
Blood & Tinsel: A memoir
by Jim Sharman
by
Gay Bilson
Poem
'Sinner’s Marsh' by Judith Beveridge
by
Judith Beveridge
Poem
'The Archivist' by Paul Hetherington
by
Paul Hetherington
History
The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English book trade 1450–1850
by James Raven
by
Graham Tulloch
International Studies
A quick fix
by
Riaz Hassan
Fiction
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
by Nicholas Drayson
by
Susan Gorgioski
Short Stories
Camera Obscura
by Kathryn Lomer
by
Andrew Burns
Fiction
Deception
by Michael Meehan
by
Tim Howard
Non-fiction
Griffith Review 21
edited by Julianne Schultz
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Dazzled by bigness
by
Francesca Beddie
A tragic comedy
by
Ruth Starke
Networked networks
by
David McCooey
What a deluge of miseries
by
Anthony J. Langlois
Shutterspeed
by A.J. Betts
by
Maya Linden
Loathing Lola
by William Kostakis
by
Danielle Trabsky
Cloudland
by Lisa Gorton
by
Pam Macintyre
Arena Journal
edited by John Hinkson et al. (eds)
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Advances
Advances | October 2008
by
Australian Book Review
Art
Three puzzles
by
Patrick McCaughey
Journals
Island 113
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Australian History
Contested battle
by
Jeffrey Grey
Letters
Letters | October 2008
by
Louise Campbell, Patrick Allington
Politics
Just a racket
by
Alison Broinowski
Absinthe and amity
by
Fiona Gruber
Higher visions and dark webs
by
Toby Davidson
Access to truth by Nigel Pearn
by
Nigel Pearn
Biography
J.A. Lyons – The ‘Tame Tasmanian’
by David S. Bird
&
Enid Lyons
by Anne Henderson
by
Ann Moyal
Jewish Studies
The Great Synagogue: A history of Sydney’s big shule
by Raymond Apple
by
Yossi Klein
Fiction
The Mystery of Rosa Morland
by Diane Fahey
by
Jeri Kroll
Memoir
The Naked Truth: A life in parts
by Graeme Blundell
by
Brian McFarlane
Literary Studies
The Penguin Book of the Road
edited by Delia Falconer
by
Peter Pierce
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