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June 2009, no. 312
Welcome to the June 2009 issue of
Australian Book Review.
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Biography
David Williamson: Behind the scenes
by Kristin Williamson
by
Michael Morley
Letters
Letters to the Editor – June 2009
by
Hidden Author
Advances
Advances: Literary News - June 2009
by
Australian Book Review
Journal
Griffith Review 24: Participation Society
edited by Julianne Schultz
by
Anthony Lynch
Military History
Gallipoli: The End Of The Myth
by Robin Prior
by
Geoffrey Blainey
Journal
HEAT 19: Trappers Way
edited by Ivor Indyk
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Politics
Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics
by C.A.J. Coady
by
Tamas Pataki
Anthology
Thanks For The Mammaries
edited by Sarah Darmody
by
Annie Condon
History
The Ends Of Life: Roads To Fulfilment In Early Modern England
by Keith Thomas
by
Wilfrid Prest
Environmental Studies
First Fleet Artist: George Raper’s birds and plants of Australia
by Linda Groom
by
John Thompson
Poetry
Therapy Like Fish: New and selected poems
by Marcella Polain
by
David Lumsden
Short Stories
Look Who’s Morphing
by Tom Cho
&
Why She Loves Him
by Wendy James
by
Adam Rivett
History
The Wolf: The most audacious warship of World War One and its 15-Month campaign of terror against Australia and the world
by Richard Guilliatt and Peter Hohnen
by
Peter Pierce
Fiction
The Sweet and Simple Kind: A novel Of Sri Lanka
by Yasmine Gooneratne
by
Alison Broinowski
Ornithology
Boom & Bust: Bird stories for a dry country
edited by Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn and Leo Joseph
by
Peter Menkhorst
Poetry
The Striped World
by Emma Jones
by
Anthony Lynch
Film
J.M. Coetzee and Philip Roth on Screen
by
Brian McFarlane
Fiction
Blood Moon
by Garry Disher
by
Tony Smith
Biography
Larrikin Angel: A biography of Veronica Brady
by Kath Jordan
by
Delys Bird
Literary Studies
Islands: A trip through time and space
by Peter Conrad
by
Brenda Niall
Fiction
Headlong: A novel
by Susan Varga
by
Carol Middleton
Poem
'Maxi, goodbye'
by
Andrew Taylor
Australian Fiction
Black Dust Dancing
by Tracy Crisp
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Music
New Classical Music: Composing Australia
by Gordon Kerry
by
Elliott Gyger
Poem
'Rain'
by
Judith Beveridge
Fiction
The Diamond Anchor
by Jennifer Mills
&
The China Garden
by Kristina Olsson
by
Kate McFadyen
Fiction
Disco Boy
by Dominic Knight
by
Paul Carter
Poetry
Five Bells Australian Poetry Festival (Double Issue)
edited by John S. Batts et al.
by
Lisa Gorton
Biography
Fairweather
by Murray Bail
by
Ian Britain
Letter collection
The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. 1: 1929–1940
edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck
by
James Ley
Poetry
True Thoughts
by Pam Brown
by
Jennifer Strauss
Poetry
Blow Out
by Rae Desmond Jones
by
Greg McLaren
Religion
Providence Lost
by Genevieve Lloyd
by
Paul Crittenden
Short Story
'The good boy', a short story by Paddy O'Reilly
by
Paddy O'Reilly
Commentary
'The Priced and the Priceless: Humanities and philanthropy in dark times' by Malcolm Gillies
by
Malcolm Gillies
Anthology
Culture Is …: Australian stories across cultures
edited by Anne-Marie Smith
by
Michael Jacklin
Young Adult Fiction
The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas
by Tony Wilson and Sue deGennaro
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
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