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May 2010, no. 321
ONLINE ONLY
Full Contents
Fiction
The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction
edited by Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
by
Susan Sheridan
Poem
'Cobwebs' a poem by Tracy Ryan
by
Tracy Ryan
Poetry
Walking on Ashes
by Winifred Weir
by
Prithvi Varatharajan
Young Adult Fiction
The Piper’s Son
by Melina Marchetta
by
Pam Macintyre
Memoir
Malcolm Fraser: The political memoirs
by Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons
by
Neal Blewett
Journal
What’s Right? The future of conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37)
by Waleed Aly
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Memoir
An extract from 'popeye never told you' by Rodney Hall
by
Rodney Hall
Open Page
Open Page with Anna Goldsworthy
by
Australian Book Review
Poetry
The Circus
by Ken Bolton
by
Michael Farrell
Poetry
Lisa Gorton reviews four poetry recordings from River Road
by
Lisa Gorton
Journal
Overland 198
edited by Jeff Sparrow
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
Letter collection
The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume 2: 1923–1925
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton
by
James Ley
Biography
Creative Lives: Personal papers of Australian writers and artists
by Penelope Hanley
by
Ian Morrison
Fiction
Boys of Summer
by Peter Skrzynecki
by
Gillian Dooley
Fiction
Leaving Suzie Pye
by John Dale
by
Don Anderson
Memoir
Popeye never told you: Childhood memories of the war
by Rodney Hall
by
Craig Munro
Poem
'Mayhem' a poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Fiction
The Norseman's Song
by Joel Deane
by
Chris Flynn
Short Stories
Nineteen Seventysomething
by Barry Divola
by
Carol Middleton
Poetry
Waiting for the Owl: Poems and songs from ancient China
by Ian Johnston (transl.)
by
Barry Hill
Climate Change
Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change
by Clive Hamilton
by
Andrew Glikson
Non-fiction
A Reader on Reading
by Alberto Manguel
by
Andrea Goldsmith
Fiction
Trust
by Kate Veitch
by
Amy Baillieu
Fiction
Martin Westley Takes a Walk
by Andrew Humphreys
by
Susan Gorgioski
Advances
Advances - May 2010
by
Australian Book Review
Fiction
Sunflower: A tale of love, war and intrigue
by Colin McLaren
by
Adrian Mitchell
Cultural Studies
Post-Colonial: A récit
by John Kinsella
by
Stephen Muecke
Science and Technology
What Science Knows: And how it knows it
by James Franklin
by
Robyn Williams
Military History
What’s wrong with Anzac? The militarisation of Australian history
by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (with Mark McKenna and Joy Damousi)
by
Robin Prior
History
Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses in Western Australia, 1829–1910
by Penelope Hetherington
by
Richard Harding
Military History
Diggers and Greeks: The Australian campaigns in Greece and Crete
by Maria Hill
by
Peter Stanley
Military History
The Broken Years: Australian soldiers in the Great War
by Bill Gammage
by
Peter Pierce
Anthology
The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry
edited by John Leonard
by
Paul Kane
Music
House of Hits
by Jane Albert
by
Jay Daniel Thompson
2010 Calibre Prize (Winner): 'On Being Odd'
by
Lorna Hallahan
2010 Calibre Prize (Winner): 'Seeing Truganini'
by
David Hansen
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