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July–August 2010, no. 323
Welcome to the July–August 2010 issue of
Australian Book Review.
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Biography
Mr Isherwood Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood and the Search for the 'Home Self'
by Victor Marsh
by
Sarah Kanowski
Advances
Advances - July-August 2010
by
Australian Book Review
Biography
A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock
by Jim Davidson
by
Deryck Schreuder
Fiction
The Grand Hotel: A novel
by Gregory Day
by
Cheryl Jorgensen
True Crime
Ciara's Gift
by Una Glennon
&
Murderer No More
by Colleen Egan
by
Richard Harding
Politics
The Clinton Tapes
by Taylor Branch
&
The Death of American Virtue
by Ken Gormley
by
Morag Fraser
Letters
Letters to the Editor - July-August 2010
by
Hidden Author
Fiction
The Book of Human Skin
by Michelle Lovric
by
Melinda Harvey
Memoir
The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo
by Shirley Shackleton
by
Jill Jolliffe
Poetry
Phantom Limb
by David Musgrave
by
Andrew Sant
Poem
'Silent Sky' by Clive James
by
Clive James
Art
Robert Dowling: Tasmanian Son of Empire
by John Jones
by
David Hansen
Non-fiction
The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature
edited by M.O. Grenby and Andrea Immel
by
Brenda Niall
Young Adult Fiction
Sugar Sugar
by Carole Wilkinson
by
Amy Baillieu
Language
Why Translation Matters
by Edith Grossman
by
Simon West
Commentary
'Mindscapes of the artist: Visiting Randolph Stow' by Laurie Hergenhan
by
Laurie Hergenhan
Commentary
'Furore in Israel: Suspicion and defensiveness after the 'Freedom Flotilla'' by Jonathan Pearlman
by
Jonathan Pearlman
Fiction
After America
by John Birmingham
by
Ben Eltham
Commentary
'Finding ourselves in Australian films' by Brian McFarlane
by
Brian McFarlane
Non-fiction
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by Iain McGilchrist
by
Ian Gibbins
Australian History
Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits, and Unruly Episodes
by Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill
by
Don Anderson
History
Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy
by Helen MacDonald
by
Daniel Vuillermin
Commentary
'Bouncing on the Trampoline of Fact: Biography and the historical imagination' by Jim Davidson
by
Jim Davidson
Tribute
One Hundred
by Richard Neville and Paul Brunton
by
John Thompson
Audio Book
Adrian Mitchell on Jack Thompson's recordings 'The Bush Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson', 'The Campfire Yarns of Henry Lawson', 'The Sentimental Bloke, The Poems of C.J. Dennis' and 'The Battlefield Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson'
by
Adrian Mitchell
Short Stories
Of Sadhus and Spinners: Australian Encounters with India
edited by Bruce Bennett, Santosh K. Sareen, Susan Cowan and Asha Kanwar
by
Rick Hosking
Picture Books
Stephanie Owen Reeder reviews children's books
by
Stephanie Owen Reeder
Memoir
New Guinea Days
by Michael O'Connor
by
Peter Pierce
Fiction
The Good Daughter
by Honey Brown
by
Laurie Steed
Fiction
Book of Lost Threads
by Tess Evans
by
Susan Gorgioski
Memoir
My Dirty Shiny Life
by Lily Bragge
by
Kate Holden
Open Page
Open Page with Lisa Gorton
by
Australian Book Review
Poetry
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
by Helen Vendler
by
Barry Hill
Short Stories
Known Unknowns
by Emmett Stinson
by
Chris Flynn
Journals
HEAT 22: The Persistent Rabbit
edited by Ivor Indyk
by
Patrick Allington
Essay Collection
Home Truth
edited by Carmel Bird
by
Felicity Plunkett
Young Adult Fiction
Beautiful Malice
by Rebecca James
by
Maya Linden
Biography
Barbara Hanrahan: A biography
by Annette Stewart
by
Craig Munro
History
Anzacs In Arkhangel: The Untold Story of Australia and the Invasion of Russia 1918-19
by Michael Challinger
by
Jeffrey Grey
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