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April 2010, no. 320
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Full Contents
International Studies
South Africa’s Brave New World: The beloved country since the end of apartheid
by R.W. Johnson
by
Jonty Driver
Peter Porter Poetry Prize
2010 ABR Poetry Prize shortlist
by
Ynez Sanz, Diane Fahey, Philip Salom, Jillian Pattinson, Anthony Lawrence
Biography
Robert Hughes: The Australian years
by Patricia Anderson
by
Daniel Vuillermin
Biography
Charles Dickens
by Michael Slater
by
Grace Moore
Poetry
Parts of Us
by Thomas Shapcott
by
Martin Duwell
Letters
Letters to the Editor
by
Elizabeth McMahon, Noel Turnbull
Poetry
Mother of Rock: The Lillian Roxon story
by Robert Milliken
by
Mark Gomes
Poetry
Grass Notes
by Sarah Day
by
Rose Lucas
Travel
Otherland: A journey with my daughter
by Maria Tumarkin
by
Judith Armstrong
On The Death and Life of Languages
by Claude Hagège
by
Bruce Moore
History
Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788–1836
by Lisa Ford
by
Henry Reynolds
Essay Collection
Beyond Belief: Skepticism, science and the paranormal
by Tamas Pataki
by
Tamas Pataki
Advances
Advances
by
Australian Book Review
Anthologies
Out Of The Box: Contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets
edited by Michael Farrell and Jill Jones
by
Gregory Kratzmann
History
Documents that Shaped Australia: Records of a nation’s heritage
by John Thompson
by
Peter Pierce
Language
A History of Charisma
by John Potts
by
Graeme Turner
Fiction
Every Secret Thing
by Marie Munkara
by
Patrick Allington
Open Page
Open Page with Sonya Hartnett
by
Australian Book Review
Poetry
Taller When Prone
by Les Murray
by
David McCooey
Fiction
The Second-Last Woman in England
by Maggie Joel
by
Rhyll McMaster
Cultural Studies
Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch, and Australian Literary Culture
edited by Katherine Bode and Robert Dixon
by
John Byron
Fiction
Time’s Long Ruin
by Stephen Orr
by
Gillian Dooley
Fiction
Susan Gorgioski reviews 'Once on a Road' by Mary-Ellen Mullane
by
Susan Gorgioski
Commentary
'In more than one place': Cosmopolitanism in the work of Shirley Hazzard
by
Brigitta Olubas
Australian History
Changing Stations: The story of Australian commercial radio
by Bridget Griffen-Foley
by
Brian McFarlane
Fiction
Carol Middleton reviews 'Swimming' by Enza Gandolfo
by
Carol Middleton
Journal
Meanjin, Vol. 69, No. 1
edited by Sophie Cunningham
by
Jeffrey Poacher
Commentary
New Poetry Meets the General Reader
by
Andrew Sant
Children's and Young Adult Fiction
Tollins: Explosive tales for children
by Conn Iggulden
by
Stephen Mansfield
Commentary
'Antipodes and the dark hemisphere: Beyond the bilateral?' by Nicholas Birns
by
Nicholas Birns
Short Stories
Under Stones
by Bob Franklin
by
Christine Piper
Essay Collection
Companion to Women’s Historical Writing
edited by Mary Spongberg, Ann Curthoys, and Barbara Caine
by
Judith Keene
Fiction
Fields of Gold
by Fiona McIntosh
by
Kate McFadyen
Essay Collection
Drawing the Line: Using cartoons as historical evidence
edited by Richard Scully and Marian Quartly
by
Robert Phiddian
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