Australian Book Review

October 2010, no. 325

October 2010, no. 325

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Fiction

Campaign Ruby by Jessica Rudd

by Amy Baillieu

Essay Collection

Patterns of Creativity: Investigations into the sources and methods of creativity by Kevin Brophy

by Jane Goodall

Fiction

Making News by Tony Wilson

Memoir

Public Life, Private Grief: A Memoir of Political Life and Loss by Mary Delahunty

by Corrie Perkin

Fiction

Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer

by Philip Salom

Short Stories

Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey

by Judith Armstrong

Journal

Indigenous Victorians: The La Trobe Journal, no. 85 edited by Lynette Russell and John Arnold

by Maria Nugent

Biography

The Bridge: The life and rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick

Open Page

Open Page with Thomas Keneally

by Australian Book Review

Fiction

A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill

by Laurie Steed

Journal

Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLVII, NO. 2: Jacques Rivette by Brian Nelson

by Colin Nettelbeck

Journal

Going Down Swinging, No.30 edited by Lisa Greenaway, Nathan Curnow, and Ella Holcombe

by James Langer

Fiction

Notorious by Roberta Lowing

by Chris Womersley

Biography

My Father’s Daughter: Memories of an Australian childhood by Sheila Fitzpatrick

by Brenda Niall

International Studies

Power Shift: Australia’s Future between Washington and Beijing (Quarterly Essay 39) by Hugh White

by Alison Broinowski

Poetry

Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden

Fiction

Patrick Allington reviews 'That Deadman Dance' by Kim Scott

by Patrick Allington

Music

Jay Daniel Thompson reviews 'Vanda and Young' by John Tait and 'Behind the Rock and Beyond' by Jon Hayton and Leon Isackson

by Jay Daniel Thompson

Commentary

'Alpha and Omega' Nathan Hollier on the establishment of Monash University Publishing

by Nathan Hollier

Natural History

Peter Menkhorst reviews 'Upside Down World' by Penny Olsen

by Peter Menkhorst

Australian History

The Poor Relation: A History of Social Sciences in Australia by by Stuart Macintyre

by Frank Jackson

Russia

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman

Biography

Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The true story of Australian writer P. L. Travers, creator of the quintessentially English nanny by Valerie Lawson

Biography

Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian internationalist by David Lee

by Peter Edwards

Biography

My Congenials: Miles Franklin and friends in letters edited by Jill Roe

by Paul Brunton

India

Islamism and Democracy in India: The transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami by Irfan Ahmad

History

Cruiser: The life and loss of HMAS Perth and her crew by Mike Carlton

by Geoffrey Blainey

Cultural Studies

Brisbane by Matthew Condon

Memoir

Inside Story: From ABC correspondent to Singapore prisoner #12988 by Peter Lloyd

by Murray Waldren

Language

Ernest Gowers: Plain words and forgotten deeds edited by Ann Scott

by Graeme Powell

YA Fiction

Kate Eltham reviews 'Grimson' by Deborah Abela and 'Quillblade' by Ben Chandler

Philosophy

On Evil by Terry Eagleton

International Studies

Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh & Gaza edited by Raimond Gaita

by Peter Rodgers

Fiction

The Fable of All Our Lives by Peter Kocan

by Don Anderson

Poetry

Starlight: 150 Poems by John Tranter & The Salt Companion to John Tranter edited by edited by Rod Mengham