Reviews Index 2013
ADAMS, Michael, The Last Girl, Allen & Unwin, 357/70, Margot McGovern
AITKEN, Adam, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill (eds), Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, Puncher & Wattmann, 357/55, John Kinsella
ALIZADEH, Ali, Transactions, University of Queensland Press, 353/70, Jay Daniel Thompson
ALTMAN, Dennis, The End of the Homosexual?, University of Queensland Press, 354/38, Robert Reynolds
ALTMAN, Jon and Seán Kerins (eds), People on Country: Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures, Federation Press, 348/48, Richard J. Martin
ANDERSON, Nola, Australian War Memorial: Treasures from a Century of Collecting, Australian War Memorial, 350/47, Geoffrey Blainey
ANDREWS, Chris, Lime Green Chair, The Waywiser Press, 349/69, Gig Ryan
ARMITAGE, Simon, Walking Home, Faber and Faber, 348/56, Bronwyn Lea
ASHTON, Jennifer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945, Cambridge University Press, 353/65, Alexander Howard
ATWOOD, Margaret, MADDADDAM, Bloomsbury, 355/16, Kerryn Goldsworthy
AUSTER, Paul and J.M. Coetzee, Here and Now: Letters, 2008-2011, Harvill Secker, 352/15, Miriam Cosic
AVERILL, Roger, Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz, Transit Lounge, 350/51, Peter Kenneally
BADIOU, Adam (Translated by Susan Spitzer), Cinema, Polity, 357/38, Hamish Ford
BANCROFT, Bronwyn, Remembering Lionsville, Allen & Unwin, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
BARKAN, Leonard, Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures, Princeton University Press, 351/45, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
BARS, Jennifer, Sophie Pavlovski-Ross and David T. Runia, Queen’s College The University of Melbourne: A Pictorial History 1887–2012, Queen’s College, 357/67, Wilfrid Prest
BASE, Graeme, My First Animalia, Viking, 357/71, Margaret Robson Kett
BEARD, Mary, Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations, Profile Books , 352/44, Christopher Allen
BEASLEY, Richard, Me and Rory Macbeath, Hachette Australia, 354/55, John Bryson
BECKETT, Ian F.W., The Making of the First World War, Yale University Press, 350/48, Robin Prior
BENNETT, Bruce and Anne Pender, From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012, Monash University Publishing, 325/25, Ros Pesman
BENNETT, Maxwell, Virginia Woolf and Neuropsychiatry, Springer, 350/54, Nick Haslam
BETTS, A.J., Zac & Mia, Text Publishing, 356/71, Maya Linden
BIRD, Delys and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth (eds), Westerly Vol. 57, No. 2, Westerly Centre, 351/32, Anthony Lynch
BIRD, Delys and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth (eds), Westerly Vol. 58, No. 1, Westerly Centre, 355/65, Carmel Macdonald Grahame
BIRNS, Nicholas, Antipodes: A Global Journal Of Australian/New Zealand Literature, Vol. 26, No.2. American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, 352/22, Cassandra Atherton
BIRNS, Nicholas (ed.), Antipodes, Vol. 27, No.1, AAALS, 355/65, Susan Lever
BIRTLES, Terry, Charles Robert Scrivener: The Surveyor Who Sited Australia’s National Capital Twice, Arcadia, 356/57, Richard Broinowski
BLACKADDER, Jesse, Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica, Fourth Estate, 350/60, Judith Armstrong
BLACKADDER, Jesse, Stay: The Last Dog in Antarctica, ABC Books, 355/66, Ruth Starke
BLAIN, Georgia, The Secret Lives of Men, Scribe, 350/23, Denise O’Dea
BOWE, Steph, All This Could End, Text Publishing, 354/66, Laura Elvery
BRAMSTON, Troy (ed), For the True Believers:Great Labor Speeches That Shaped History, The Federation Press, 357/64, Lyndon Megarrity
BRANFORD, Anna (illustrated by Sarah Davis), Violet Mackerel’s Possible Friend, Walker Books, 351/66, Joy Lawn
BROINOWSKI, Richard, Fallout from Fukushima, Scribe, 348/50, Gillian Terzis
BROOKE, Cori and Sue deGennaro, Max and George, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
BROOKES, David and Elizabeth McMahon, Southerly Vol. 72, No. 3, Brandl & Schlesinger, 354/65, Peter Keneally
BROWN, Honey, Dark Horse, Michael Joseph, 355/48, Jay Daniel Thompson
BROWN, Pam, Home by Dark, Shearsman Books, 353/67, Gig Ryan
BRUGMAN, Alyssa, Alex as Well, Text Publishing, 349/70, Maya Linden
BUTLER, Janet, Kitty’s War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton, University of Queensland Press, 356/33, Jo Scanlan
BYNUM, William, A Little History of Science, Yale University Press, 349/22, Robyn Williams
CALDICOTT, Helen, Loving This Planet: Leading Thinkers Talk About How To Make A Better World, New Press, 352/21, Gillian Terzis
CALWELL, Mary Elizabeth, I Am Bound to Be True: The Life and Legacy of Arthur A. Calwell, 1896–1973, Mosaic Press, 350/57, Lyndon Megarrity
CAMPBELL, Marion May, Konkretion, UWAP, 350/21, Patrick Allington
CAMPBELL, Mel, Out of Shape: Debunking Myths about Fashion and Fit, Affirm Press, 354/65, Dion Kagan
CAMUS, Albert (edited by Alice Kaplan and translated by Arthur Goldhammer), Algerian Chronicles, Harvard University Press, 351/57, Colin Nettelbeck
CANNADINE, David, The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences, Penguin, 355/53, Stuart Macintyre
CAPP, Fiona, Gotland, Fourth Estate, 356/69, Phil Brown
CAREY, Gabrielle, Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family, University of Queensland Press, 357/15, Susan Sheridan
CARROLL, Steven, A World of Other People, Fourth Estate, 350/20, Don Anderson
CARTER, Alan, Getting Warmer, Freemantle Press, 357/63, Simon Collinson
CASE, Jo, Boomer & Me: A Memoir of Motherhood, and Asperger’s, Hardie Grant Books, 351/43, Rachel Robertson
CASEY, Melanie, Hindsight, Pantera Press, 354/56, Estelle Tang
CASTRO, Brian, Street to Street, Giramondo, 348/23, Francesca Sasnaitis
CHENOWETH, Neil, Murdoch’s Pirates: Before the Phone Hacking, There Was Rupert’s Pay-TV Skullduggery, Allen & Unwin, 348/16, Joel Deane
CHISHOLM, A.H. Mateship with Birds, Scribe, 352/66, Andrew Fuhrmann
CLARK, Katerina, Moscow, The Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941, Harvard University Press, 349/62, Nick Hordern
CLARK, T.J., Picasso and Truth, Princeton University Press, 354/31, Patrick McCaughey
COETZEE, J.M., The Childhood of Jesus, Text Publishing, 349/10, Morag Fraser
COETZEE, J.M. et al., The 2013 Voiceless Anthology, Allen & Unwin, 349/68, Alex O’Brien
COLE, Jessie, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Fourth Estate, 348/64, Romy Ash
CONDON, Matthew, The Toe Tag Quintet: Five Novellas of Murder and Mayhem, Vintage, 348/64, Simon Collinson
CONDON, Matthew, Three Crooked Kings, UQP, 351/17, Dean Biron
COOPER, Artemis, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, John Murray, 350/52, Kári Gíslason
CORRIS, Peter, The Dunbar Case, Allen & Unwin, 350/67, Laurie Steed
COSSINS, Annie, The Baby Farmers: A Chilling Tale of Missing Babies, Shameful Secrets and Murder in 19th Century Australia, Allen & Uniwin, 357/33, Jay Daniel Thompson
COX, David, The Fair Dinkum War, Allen & Unwin, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CRIMP, Douglas, ‘Our Kind of Movie’: The Films of Andy Warhol, MIT Press, 350/44, Jake Wilson
CROGGON, Alison, Black Spring, Walker Books, 348/57, Bec Kavanagh
CUMMINGS, Phil and Owen Swan, ANZAC Biscuits, Scholastic, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CUNNINGHAM, Stuart, Hidden Innovation: Policy, Industry and the Creative Sector, University of Queensland Press, 353/48, Andrew Leigh
CURTAIN, Amanda, Elemental, UWA Publishing, 354/54, Wendy Were
DE BONT, Genna, Privacy, Fourth Estate, 356/70, Rory Kennett-Lister
DALEY, Paul, Canberra, NewSouth, 350/10, Jen Webb
DALZIELL, Tanya, and Paul Genoni (eds.) Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012, Monash University Publishing, 356/64, Susan Lever
DANCHEV, Alex, Cézanne: A Life, Profile Books, 349/16, Patrick McCaughey
DANDO-COLLINS, Stephen, Caesar the War Dog: Operation Blue Dragon, Random House, 355/66, Ruth Starke
DARWIN, John, Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, Allen Lane, 357/31, Robert Dare
DATTNER, Zoe and Louise Swinn (eds), The Sleepers Almanac No. 8, Sleepers, 350/53, Amy Baillieu
DAVIDSON, Toby, Beast Language, 5 Islands Press, 352/54, Peter Kenneally
DAVIES, Luke, Four Plots for Magnets, Pitt Street Poetry, 354/63, Anthony Lynch
DAVIES, Will, The Boy Colonel: Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Marks, the Youngest Battalion Commander in the AIF, Vintage, 355/65, Jo Scanlan
DAVIS, Richard, Wotan’s Daughter: The Life of Marjorie Lawrence, Wakefield Press, 352/50, Ian Dickson
DEVESON, Anne, Waging Peace: Reflections On Peace And War From An Unconventional Woman, Allen & Unwin, 352/21, Gillian Terzis
DEWAARD, Andrew and R. Colin Tait, The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape, Wallflower Press, 355/64, Jake Wilson
DICINOSKI, Michelle, Ghost Wife: A Memoir of Love and Defiance, Black Inc., 349/60, Jay Daniel Thompson
DICKENSON, Jackie, Trust Me: Australians and Their Politicians, UNSW Press, 355/22, Russell Marks
DIONYSIUS, B.R., Bowra, Whitmore Press, 356/53, Peter Kenneally
DISHER, Garry, Bitter Wash Road, Text Publishing, 357/60, Ray Cassin
DOMOSŁAWSKI, Artur, (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones), Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life, Verso, 348/17, Sheila Fitzpatrick
DORSEN, David M., Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era, Harvard University Press, 357/66, Michael Crennan
DOWNES, Stephen, A Lasting Record, HarperCollins, 353/61, Alistaire Bowler
DREWE, Robert, The Local Wildlife, Hamish Hamilton, 355/59, Dennis Haskell
DREYFUS, Kay, Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraubs Syncopators, Monash University Publishing, 354/57, Colin Nettelbeck
DUGGAN, Laurie, The Collected Blue Hills, Puncher & Wattmann, 352/53, David McCooey
DUNLOP, Tim, The New Front Page: New Media and the Rise of the Audience, Scribe, 355/19, Gillian Terzis
EDMONDSON, Paul and Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy, Cambridge University Press, 357/49, Ian Donaldson
EDWARDS, Rachel and Matthew Lamb (eds), Island 132, Island Magazine, 353/65, Cassandra Atherton
EGGERT, Paul, Biography of a Book: Henry Lawson’s ‘While the Billy Boils’, Sydney University Press/Pennsylvania State University Press, 354/24, Paul Brunton
ELIOT, Valerie and John Haffenden (eds), The Letters of T.S. Eliot: Volume 3: 1926–1927, Faber and Faber, 348/37, James McNamara
ELLIOT, J.H., History in the Making, Yale University Press, 348/62, Norman Etherington
ELLIOTT, Ron, Now Showing, Fremantle Press, 352/64, Samuel Williams
ELLIS, Bob, The Year It All Fell Down, Viking, 353/48, Jay Daniel Thompson
EMERY, Brook, Collusion, John Leonard Press, 350/40, Geoff Page
ERDRICH, Louise, The Round House, Constable, 349/10, Morag Fraser
FALLADA, Hans, Charlotte and A.L. Lloyd (trans.), The Drinker, Scribe, 352/43, William Heyward
FAULKNER, Annah, The Beloved, Picador, 352/40, Gillian Dooley
FEIGEL, Lara, The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War, Bloomsbury (Allen & Unwin), 352/59, Jane Sullivan
FIENBERG, Anna (illustrated by Stephen Michael King), Figaro and Rumba and the Crocodile Cafe, Allen & Unwin, 351/66, Joy Lawn
FINNANE, Mark and Ian Donaldson, Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australia, UWA Publishing, 352/57, Robert Phiddian
FISHER, Jeremy, How to Tell Your Father to Drop Dead, Fat Frog Books, 357/68, Jay Daniel Thompson
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, A Spy in the Archives, Melbourne University Press, 356/31, Miriam Cosic
FLANAGAN, Richard, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Vintage, 355/12, James Ley
FORSYTH, Kate, The Wild Girl, Vintage, 356/70, Kate Hayford
FOX, Mem and Emma Quay, Baby Bedtime, Viking, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
FOX, Mem (illustrated by Lauren Stringer), Tell Me About Your Day Today, Scholastic, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
FOYSTER, Greg, Changing Gears: A Pedal-powered Detour from the Rat Race, Affirm Press, 357/68, Alastair Collins
FRAME, Janet, In The Memorial Room, Text Publishing, 353/36, Jane Sullivan
FRASER, Antonia, Perilous Question: The Drama Of The Great Reform Bill 1832, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 353/52, Neal Blewett
FRENCH, Jackie, Dinosaurs Love Cheese, Angus & Robertson, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
FRENCH, Jackie, Refuge, Angus and Robertson, 355/66, Ruth Starke
FULLILOVE, Michael, Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World, Viking, 355/20, Dennis Altman
GELDER, Ken, New Vampire Cinema, British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 351/41, Michael Fleming
GELLATLY, Kelly (ed.), 101 Contemporary Australian Artists, National Gallery of Victoria, 348/41, Doug Hall
GEMMELL, Nikki, Honestly: Notes on Life, Fourth Estate, 348/48, Gillian Dooley
GIBSON, Ross, 26 Views of the Starburst World: William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788 –91, UWAP, 348/27, Andy Lloyd James
GLEESON, Andrew, A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil, Palgrave Macmillan, 354/60, Graham Oppy
GLENDINNING, Victoria, Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781–1826, Profile Books, 350/46, Paul Madden
GOLD, Irma (ed.), The Invisible Thread: One Hundred Years of Words, Halstead Press, 350/10, Jen Webb
GOLDING, Peter, An Unqualified Success: The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming, Rosenberg Publishing, 357/65, Graeme Powell
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, The Memory Trap, Fourth Estate, 351/36, Jan McGuinness
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, Welcome to Your New Life, Black Inc., 350/50, Rachel Robertson
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, His Stupid Boyhood: A Memoir, Hamish Hamilton, 357/16, Kári Giślason
GORE, Al, The Future, W.H. Allen, 350/13, Gillian Terzis
GORTON, Lisa, Hotel Hyperion, Giramondo, 351/55, Cassandra Atherton
GOTT, Robert, The Holiday Murders, Scribe, 349/63, Scott Macleod
GREENE, Roland, et al (ed.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition, Princeton University Press, 355/26, David McCooey
GREENWOOD, Kerry, Evan’s Gallipoli, Allen & Unwin, 355/66, Ruth Starke
GUILLE, Derek and Anne-Sophie Biguet, The Promise: The Town That Never Forgets, One Day Hill, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HAMILTON, Clive, Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate, Allen & Unwin, 349/19, Amanda McLeod
HANSEN, Christine and Tom Griffiths, Living with Fire: People, Nature and
History in Steels Creek, CSIRO Publishing, 356/23, Robert Kenny
HARDIE, Melissa Jane (ed.), Southerly, Vol. 72, No. 2, Brandl & Schlesinger, 351/57, Andrew Fuhrmann
HARRIS, Robin, Not For Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher, Random House, 356/28, James Walter
HARWOOD, John, The Asylum, Vintage Australia, 353/37, Benjamin Chandler
HARTNETT, Sonya (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2012, Black Inc., 348/22, Cassandra Atherton
HARVEY, Jacqueline, Clementine Rose and the Pet Day Disaster, Random House, 351/66, Joy Lawn
HAWKE, Rosanne, Shahana: Through My Eyes, Allen & Unwin, 355/66, Ruth Starke
HAWKING, Stephen, My Brief History, Bantam Press, 357/21, Robyn Williams
HAWKINS, Belinda, Every Parent’s Nightmare: Jock Palfreeman and the True Story of his Father’s Fight to Save him from a Lifetime in a Bulgarian Jail , Allen & Unwin, 352/63, Daniel Herborn
HAWLEY, Janet, Artists in Conversation, Slattery Media Group, 349/58, Sheridan Palmer
HAY, Ashley, The Railwayman’s Wife, Allen & Unwin, 351/33, Patrick Allington
HAYES, Nicole, The Whole of my World, Woolshed Press, 354/67, Maya Linden
HEARN, Liam, The Storyteller and His Three Daughters, Hachette Australia, 356/65, Alison Broinowski
HEHIR, Tim, Julius and the Watchmaker, Text Publishing, 352/67, Benjamin Chandler
HETHERINGTON, Michelle (ed.), Glorious Days: Australia 1913, National Museum of Australia, 353/51, John Thompson
HETHERINGTON, Paul, Six Different Windows, UWA Publishing, 354/64, Bronwyn Lea
HEYMAN, Kathryn, Floodline, Allen & Unwin, 356/70, Carol Middleton
HILLIARD, Christopher, English as a Vocation: the Scrutiny Movement, Oxford University Press, 357/51, Alexander Howard
HOLFELD, Greg and Ruth Starke, An Anzac Tale, Working Title Press, 353/70, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HOLUIGUE, Diane, A Lifetime of Cooking, Teaching and Writing from the French Kitchen, Slattery Media Group, 349/59, Christopher Menz
HUNT, Julie, Song for a Scarlet Runner, Allen & Unwin, 354/66, Grace Nye
INGRAM, Tania and Kat Chadwick, Dog on Log, Scholastic, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
JINKS, Catherine, A Very Unusual Pursuit: City of Orphans, Book One, Allen & Unwin, 352/67, Benjamin Chandler
JOHNSON, Judy, Stone Scar Air Water, Walleah Press, 355/60, Rose Lucas
JONES, Lloyd, A History of Silence, Text, 355/24, Kári Gíslason
JONES, Rae Desmond, It Comes From All Directions, Grand Parade Poets, 357/59, Martin Duwell
JONSBERG, Barry, My Life as an Alphabet, Allen & Unwin, 351/66, Joy Lawn
JØRGENSEN, Lesley, Cat & Fiddle, Scribe, 350/61, Ruth Starke
JOSEPH, Sue, Speaking Secrets: Sex and Sexuality as Public Property, Alto Books, 349/65, Jay Daniel Thompson
JUDAH, Ben, Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin, Yale University Press, 355/54, Nick Hordern
KANE, Kim and Marion Roberts, Cry Blue Murder, UQP, 355/67, Bec Kavanagh
KANE, Kim and Sara Acton, Esther’s Rainbow, Allen & Unwin, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
KANNEMEYER, J.C.,(trans. Michiel Heyns), J.M. Coetzee: A Life in Writing, Scribe, 348/19, Gillian Dooley
KAPLAN, Wendy, Living in a Modern Way: California Design 1930-1965, MIT Press, 357/43, Christopher Menz
KENNEDY, Dane, The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia, Harvard University Press , 352/64, Norman Etherington
KENNY, Robert, Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir, UWA Publishing, 357/13, Ian Gibbins
KENT, Hannah, Burial Rites, Picador, 351/62, Bronwyn Lea
KERR, Eleanor and Judith Rossell, To Get to Me, Random House, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
KEVIN, Tony, Reluctant Rescuers: An Exploration of the Australian Border Protection System’s Safety Record in Detecting and Intercepting Asylum-Seeker Boats, 1998–2011, Tony Kevin, 351/59, Jay Daniel Thompson
KILDEA, Paul, Benjamin Britten: A Life In The Twentieth Century, Allen Lane, 352/48, 352/48, Jeffrey Tate
KING, Barbara, How Animals Grieve, University of Chicago Press, 354/61, Rebecca Giggs
KINROSS-SMITH, Greame, Available Light, Whitmore Press, 348/60, Mike Ladd
KINSELLA, John, Tide, Transit Lounge, 357/11, Maria Takolander
KNEEN, Krissy, Steeplechase, Text, 351/60, Wendy Were
KOBAYASHI, Ai, W. McMahon Ball: Politics for the People, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 354/58, Lyndon Megarrity
KOEPPE, Wolfram, Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, Yale University Press, 353/42, Christopher Menz
LANDER, Nicholas, The Art of the Restaurateur, Phaidon, 350/38, Gay Bilson
LANGTON, Marcia, The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom (2012 Boyer Lectures) 353/46, Tim Rowse
LATHAM, Mark, Not Dead Yet: Labor’s Post-Left Future (Quarterly Essay 49), Black Inc., 351/15, Dennis Altman
LAVELL, Iris, Elsewhere in Success, Fremantle Press, 349/64, Estelle Tang
LAWSON, Henry, While the Billy Boils: The Original Newspaper Versions, Sydney University Press, 354/24, Paul Brunton
LEA, Bronwyn (ed.), Australian Poetry Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2, Australian Poetry Ltd, 350/64, Cassandra Atherton
LEIGH, Andrew, Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia, Redback, 354/14, Gillian Terzis
LESTER, Alison, Kissed by the Moon, Viking, 357/71, Margaret Robson Kett
LEWIS, Darrell, Where is Dr Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History, Monash University Publishing, 354/19, Martin Thomas
LEE, Michelle, Banana Girl: A Memoir, Transit Lounge, 357/68, Sara Savage
LIMPRECHT, Eleanor, What was Left, Sleepers Publishing, 355/48, Milly Main
LOEWENSTEIN, Antony, Profits of Doom, Melbourne University Press, 356/25, Virginia Lloyd
LUCAS, Rose, Even in the Dark, UWA Publishing, 357/43, Cassandra Atherton
LUCASHENKO, Melissa, Mullumbimby, UQP, 351/34, Tony Birch
LYONS, Martyn, The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c. 1860-1920, Cambridge University Press, 357/34, Paul Pickering
MACCALLUM, Mungo, The Mad Marathon: the Story of the 2013 Election, Black Inc., 357/18, Shane Carmody
MACCARTER, Kent and Ali Lemer (eds.), Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home, Affirm Press, 349/64, Harry Brumpton
MACGREGOR, Neil, Shakespeare’s Restless World, Allen Lane, 354/29, Ian Donaldson
MCARTHUR, Ian, Henry Black: On Stage in Meiji Japan, Monash University Publishing, 356/65, Alison Broinowski
MCDONALD, Roger, The Following, Vintage, 355/17, Don Anderson
MACFARLANE, Fiona, The Night Guest, Hamish Hamilton, 357/62, Gillian Dooley
MCGAHAN, Andrew, Ship Kings: The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice, Allen & Unwin, 349/71, Clare Kennedy
MCHAM, Sarah Blake, Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: the Legacy of the ‘Natural History’, Yale University Press, 357/52, Christopher Allen
MCKAY, Laura Jean, Holiday in Cambodia, Black Inc., 355/48, Alice Bishop
MCKENNA, Neil, Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England, Allen & Unwin, 353/55, Paul Morgan
MCKINLAY, Meg, Definitely No Ducks!, Walker Books, 351/66, Joy Lawn
MCKNIGHT, David, Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes in Our World, Pluto Press, 356/21, Jan McGuinness
MCLAREN, Melbourne: City of Worlds, Arcadia Publishing, 355/63, Simon Caterson
MACRIS, Anthony, Great Western Highway: A Love Story (Capital, Volume One, Part Two), UWAP, 348/25, Patrick Allington
MAIDEN, Jennifer, Liquid Nitrogen, Giramondo, 348/59, Kate Middleton
MADAR, Chase, The Passion of Bradley Manning: The True Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower, Verso, 351/65, Jay Daniel Thompson
MAJOR, John, My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall, HarperCollins, 356/51, John Rickard
MARR, David, The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (Quarterly Essay 51), Black Inc., 356/18, Ray Cassin
MATHIEU, Marianne et al., Monet’s Garden: The Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, National Gallery of Victoria, 353/44, Mark Dober
MAX, D.T., Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, Granta, 348/53, Shannon Burns
MAXWELL, Glyn, On Poetry, Oberon Books, 348/55, David McCooey
MEEHAN, Maurilia, Madame Bovary’s Haberdashery, Transit Lounge, 350/66, Carol Middleton
MIDDLETON, Kate, Ephemeral Waters, Giramondo, 357/57, Peter Kenneally
MILDER, Robert, Hawthorne’s Habitations: A Literary Life, Oxford University Press, 352/51, Shannon Burns
MILLER, Alex, Coal Creek, Allen & Unwin, 355/13, Brian Matthews
MITCHELL, Neil, World Film Locations: Melbourne, Intellect Books, 357/39, Benjamin Millar
MONK, Ray, Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jonathan Cape, 352/18, Harry Oldmeadow
MOORE, Charles, Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (Volume One: Not for Turning), Allen Lane, 356/28, James Walter
MOORE, Steven (eds.), The Letters of William Gaddis, Dalkey Archive Press, 356/61, Patrick Allington
MOORE, Tony, Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia’s Bohemians Since 1860, Pier 9, 356/58, Frank Bongiorno
MORIARTY, Catherine, Making Melbourne’s Monuments: The Sculpture of Paul Montford, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 353/39, Christopher Menz
MUNRO, Alice, Dear Life, Chatto & Windus, 351/31, Melinda Harvey
NADLER, Steven, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Portrait Painter: A Portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press, 355/56, Stephen Buckle
NEAR, Allyse, Fairytales for Wilde Girls, Random House, 353/71, Grace Nye
NEAVE, Lucy, Who We Were, Text Publishing, 352/42, Judith Armstrong
NELSON, Brian (ed.), Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. L, No. 1, Liverpool University Press, 356/27, Colin Nettlebeck
O’BRIEN, Geoffrey, Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002-2012, Counterpoint Press, 357/40, Jake Wilson
O’GORMAN, Emily, Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin, CSIRO Publishing, 350/62, Paul Humphries
OATES, Joyce Carol, The Accursed, Fourth Estate, 353/35, Morag Fraser
OGILVIE, Sarah, Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, 356/62, Bernadette Hince
OLSEN, Penny, Collecting Ladies: Ferdinand Von Mueller and Women Botanical Artists, National Library of Australia, 353/50, Simon Caterson
OLSSON, Kristina, Boy Lost, University of Queensland Press, 353/57, Gillian Dooley
OLUBAS, Brigitta, Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, Cambria Press, 352/24, Paul Morgan
PAGE, Geoff, 1953, UQP, 349/70, Mike Ladd
PAGE, Vanessa, Confessional Box, Walleah Press, 351/64, Peter Kenneally
PARNELL, Sean, Clive: The Story of Clive Palmer, HarperCollins, 356/16, Gillian Terzis
PARRY, Linda, William Morris Textiles, V&A Publishing, 355/50, Christopher Menz
PASCOE, Bruce, Fog a Dox, Magabala Books, 351/66, Joy Lawn
PEETERS, Benoît (trans. Andrew Brown), Derrida: A Biography, Polity (Blackwell), 356/59, Shannon Burns
POLLAN, Michael, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Allen Lane, 355/61, Gay Bilson
POWER, Robert, The Swan Song of Doctor Malloy, Transit Lounge, 354/56, Crusader Hillis
PRETO, Alexander, The Mimosa Tree, Fremantle Press, 354/66, Laura Elvery
RADIC, Thérèse, and Suzanne Robinson (eds.), Marshall-Hall’s Melbourne: Music, Art and Controversy, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 356/52, Benjamin Millar
RAPHAEL, Frederic and Josesph Epstein, Distant Intimacy: A Friendship in the Age of the Internet, Yale University Press, Miriam Cosic
RICHELL, Hannah, The Shadow Year, Hachette Australia, 357/63, Milly Main
RIETH, Homer, 150 Motets, Black Pepper, 350/65, Geoff Page
ROBERTS, Claire, Photography and China, Reaktion Books, 350/41, Sophie McIntyre
ROBOTHAM, Michael, Watching You, Sphere, 357/63, Ray Cassin
ROSEN, Charles, Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature, Harvard University Press, 348/39, Michael Morley
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, Belomor, Text Publishing, 349/13, Phil Brown
ROUX, Michel, Michel Roux: The Collection, Lantern, 349/59, Christopher Menz
ROY, James, City, UQP, 348/54, Laura Elvery
RUSSELL, Vanessa, Holy Bible, Sleepers Publishing, 354/56, Francesca Sasnaitis
RYAN, Denis and Peter Hoysted, Unholy Trinity: The Hunt for the Paedophile Priest Monsignor John Day, Allen & Unwin, 354/16, Ray Cassin
SAGE, Helen, A Flower Between the Cracks: A Memoir of Love, Hope and Disability, Affirm Press, 352/61, Jay Daniel Thompson
SAID, Aimee, Freia Lockhart’s Summer of Awful, Walker Books, 354/66, Laura Elvery
SANT, Andrew, The Bicycle Thief & Other Poems, Black Pepper, 352/56, Martin Duwell
SAYWELL, Cherise, Twitcher, Vintage, 349/66, Thuy On
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 38: The Novella Project, Text Publishing, 348/62, Imogen Smith
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 41, Text Publishing, 354/65, Andrew Fuhrmann
SCOTT, Maggie (ed) (et al.), Just Between Us: Australian Writers Tell the Truth About Female Friendship, Pan Macmillan, 353/68, Milly Main
SCOURFIELD, Stephen, As the River Runs, UWAP, 350/62, Ben Eltham
SHANAHAN, Brendan, Mr Snack and the Lady Water: Travel Tales From My Lost Years, Melbourne University Press, 354/40, Alex O’Brien
SHANAHAN, Lisa (illustrated by Sara Acton), Daisy and the Puppy, Scholastic, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
SHARE, Don and Christian Wiman (eds), The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, University of Chicago Press, 348/58, Stephen Edgar
SHARP, Christine, Bea, UQP, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
SHAWCROSS, William (ed.), Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Macmillan, 348/38, Michael Shmith
SHRIVER, Lionel, Big Brother, Fourth Estate, 352/39, Kerryn Goldsworthy
SIMSION, Graeme, The Rosie Project, Text Publishing, 348/26, Jo Case
SMART, John, Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T.S. Eliot and Their Circle, Michael Russell, 356/26, Steven Carroll
SMITH, Annabel, Whisky Charlie Foxtrot, Fremantle Press, 348/64, Stephen Mansfield
SMITHIES, Declan and Daniel Stoljar (eds), Introspection and Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 349/60, Frank Jackson
SOMERVILLE, Chris, We Are Not the Same Anymore: Stories, UQP, 351/66, Angela E. Andrewes
STAFFORD, Jane and Mark Williams, The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature, Auckland University Press, 352/10, Brian Matthews
STEELE, Bruce, Walter Lindesay Richardson MD: A Victorian Seeker, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 350/17, John Arnold
STEGGALL, Susan, A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr: Art and Architectural Historian, 353/40, Sheridan Palmer
STONE, Oliver and Peter Kuznick, The Untold History of the United States, Ebury Press, 350/15, Alison Broinowski
STRICKLAND, Katrina, Affairs of the Art, Miegunyah Press, 351/37, Mary Eagle
STRONG, Roy, Self-portrait as a Young Man, Bodleian Library, 353/12, Patrick McCaughey
SUMMERS, Anne, The Misogyny Factor, NewSouth, 353/47, Gillian Dooley
TAKOLANDER, Maria, The Double (And Other Stories), Text Publishing, 354/53, Patrick Allington
TAN, Shaun, Rules of Summer, Lothian, 357/70, Margaret Robson Kett
TAYLOR, Cory, My Beautiful Enemy, Text Publishing, 352/41, Dennis Altman
TEMPLEMAN, Ian, The Watchmaker’s Imprint: Selected Poems, Tin Kettle Books, 357/58, Dennis Haskell
TEO, Hsu-Ming, Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels, University of Texas Press, 351/47, Alison Broinowski
THALIS, Philip, and Peter John Cantrill, Public Sydney: Drawing the City, Historic Houses Trust, 353/33, Philip Goad
THOMSON, David, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us, Allen Lane, 349/56, Campbell Thomson
TINK, Andrew, Air Disaster Canberra: The Plane Crash that Destroyed a Government, NewSouth, 351/44, Lyndon Megarrity
TÓIBÍN, Colin, The Testament of Mary, Picador, 357/10, Robert Dessaix
TOY, Ann and Robert Griffin, Government House Sydney, Historic Houses Trust, 349/57, Christopher Menz
TREDINNICK, Mark (Ed.), Australian Love Poems 2013, Inkerman & Blunt, 355/28, Peter Kenneally
TRIGG, Stephanie, Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter, University of Pennsylvania Press, 349/14, Ian Donaldson
TRINCA, Helen, Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, Text Publishing,352/17, Sylvia Martin
TRUMBLE, Angus, and Andrea Wolk Rager, Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, 353/38 Anne Gray
TSIOLKAS, Christos, Barracuda, Allen & Unwin, 356/14, Rosemary Sorensen
VAN LOON, Julienne, Harmless, Fremantle Press, 351/63, Milly Main
VENTRESCA, Robert A., Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII, Harvard University Press, 352/61, Ray Cassin
VOLK, Felicity, Lightning, Picador, 353/64, Alison Broinowski
WAKELING, Corey, Goad Omen, Giramondo, 353/66, Anthony Lynch
WALKER, Yvette, Letters to the End of Love, University of Queensland Press, 352/60, Carol Middleton
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, New and Selected Poems, Carcanet Press, 350/24, Geoffrey Lehmann
WARRELL, Ian (ed.), Turner From The Tate: The Making of A Master, Tate Publishing, 353/14, Mary Eagle
WALKER, David and Agnieszka Sobocinska, Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century, UWA Publishing, 354/39, Nick Hordern
WALSH, Kerry-Anne, The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the Media and Team Rudd Contrived to Bring Down the Prime Minister, Allen & Unwin, 354/12, Jacqueline Kent
WEARNE, Alan, Prepare the Cabin for Landing, Giramondo, 348/61, Peter Kenneally
WHISH-WILSON, David, Zero at the Bone, Viking, 356/68, Wendy Were
WICKS, Robert L., European Aesthetics: A Critical Introduction from Kant to Derrida, Oneworld Publications, 351/64, Janna Thompson
WILD, Margaret and Freya Blackwood, The Treasure Box, Viking, 350/66, Margaret Robson Kett
WILLAN, Anne, One Soufflé at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France, St Martin’s Press, 357/46, Gay Bilson
WILLIAMS, Pamela, Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge, HarperCollins, 356/21, Jan McGuinness
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, The Burning Library: Great Novelists Lost and Found, Text Publishing, 348/14, Bernadette Brennan
WILLS, Garry, Why Priests? A Failed Tradition, Viking, 355/57, Tony Coady
WILSON, Mark, Vietnam Diary, Lothian, 353/71, Stephanie Owen Reeder
WINTON, Tim, Eyrie, Hamish Hamilton, 356/13, Brian Matthews
WOOD, Fiona, Wildlife, Pan Macmillan, 357/71, Emma Hayes
WRIGHT, Alexis, The Swan Book, Giramondo, 354/22, Jen Webb
WYLD, Evie, All the Birds, Singing, Vintage, 353/62, Felicity Plunkett
WYNDHAM, Diana, Norman Haire and the Study of Sex, Sydney University Press, 348/51, John Rickard
WYNDHAM, Susan (ed.), My Mother, My Father, Allen & Unwin, 356/34, Dina Ross
YOUNG, Damon, Philosophy in the Garden, Melbourne University, 354/60, Jay Daniel Thompson
Features Index 2013
ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE
CLARKSON, Rebekah, ‘The Five Truths of Manhood’ 355/30
MAHOOD, Kim, ‘The Accident’, 355/37
MICHAU-CRAWFORD, Michelle, ‘Leaving Elvis’, 355/42
BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ADAMSON, Robert, 357/22
ALTMAN, Dennis, 357/22
ATHERTON, Cassandra, 357/22
BIRCH, Tony, 357/22
CONDON, Matthew, 357/22
COSIC, Miriam, 357/23
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 357/23
FRASER, Morag, 357/22
FUHRMANN, Andrew, 357/24
FULLILOVE, Michael, 357/24
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 357/24
KENT, Jacqueline, 357/24
KINSELLA, John, 357/25
LEA, Bronwyn, 357/25
MCCAUGHEY, Patrick, 357/25
MACINTYRE, Stuart, 357/26
MATTHEWS, Brian, 357/26
NIALL, Brenda, 357/26
ON, Thuy, 357/26
OWEN REEDER, Stephanie, 357/26
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, 357/27
SHMITH, Michael, 357/27
SHUTTLEWORTH, Mike, 357/27
STARKE, Ruth, 357/27
SULLIVAN, Jane, 357/27
THOMAS, Martin, 357/28
WEAVER, Jacki, 357/28
WEBB, Jen, 357/28
WILLIAMS, Kim, 357/29
WILLIAMS, Robyn, 357/29
CALIBRE PRIZE 2013
THOMAS, Martin, “Because It’s Your Country”: Bringing Back the Bones to West Arnhem Land’, 350/26
COMMENTARY
BROINOWSKI, Alison, ‘You Are What You Read: Asian Australian Fiction in the Asian Century’, 348/42
CATERSON, Simon, ‘John le Carré’s Spy at Fifty’, 352/28
CRAVEN, Peter, ‘Mordant Beauty: A Classic by Absolute Not Parochial Standards’, 354/26
CUNNANE, Mary, ‘#Queryfail and Other Publishing Practices’, 357/36
ENNIS, Helen, ‘Olive Cotton at Spring Forest’, 353/18
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, ‘In the Moscow Archives,’ 354/33
FRASER, Morag, ‘Signs and Portents: The Outlook for America in Obama’s Second Term’, 348/10
FUHRMANN, Andrew, ‘A Theatre of His Own’ 356/35
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, ‘Everyone’s a Critic’, 351/20
GRIFFITHS, Tom, ‘At Dusk in the Gévaudan’, 354/41
KATZEN, Hayley, ‘The Lonely Death’, 351/49
MCEWIN, Emma, ‘Penguins on Horseback: Douglas Mawson’s Iron Gut’, 352/30
MEYRICK, Julian, ‘Assemblage of Convenience: National Cultural Policy-Making 101’, 351/12
NIALL, Brenda, ‘Ettie and Nettie: When Nettie Palmer Visited Henry Handel Richardson’, 348/28
STARKE, Ruth, ‘Media Don: A Political Enigma in Pink Shorts’, 349/30
DIARY
ROSE, Peter, ‘Editor’s Diary’, 349/24
FILM
FRASER, Morag, Lincoln, 348/47
KAGAN, Dion, Stranger by the Lake, 357/37
MCFARLANE, Brian, Great Expectations, 350/45
MCFARLANE, Brian, The Great Gatsby, 352/29
MCFARLANE, Brian, What Maisie Knew, 355/52
MCFARLANE, Brian, Mr Pip, 356/54
WILSON, Jake, The Turning, 354/28
WILSON, Jake, Fallout, 356/67
MEMOIR
HAMILTON, Debi, ‘Out of Bounds’, 357/47
OPEN PAGE
ALTMAN, Dennis, 354/68
CAMPBELL, Marion May, 350/68
CONDON, Matthew, 351/68
DISHER, Garry, 357/72
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, 355/68
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 353/72
KINSELLA, John, 352/68
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, 349/72
WINTON, Tim, 356/72
OPERA
ROSE, Peter, ‘A Masked Verdi’, 352/46
PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE: THE SHORTLISTED POEMS
CURNOW, Nathan, ‘Prophecy’, 349/46
DISNEY, Dan, ‘Procedures in Aesthetics’, 349/50
JOHNSON, A. Frances, ‘Big Wig’, 349/47
KINSELLA, John, ‘Bushfire Approaching’, 349/54
SCOTT, John A., ‘Four Sonnets’, 349/49
POEMS
ATHERTON, Cassandra, ‘P.R.B.’, 351/46
BOHINCE, Paula, ‘Descending Geese at Katada’, 357/19
BOLTON, Ken, 30.11.12, 352/27
CAHILL, Michelle, ‘The Dying Art’, 354/36
COMPTON, Jennifer, ‘Sorrowful’, 349/67
DISNEY, Dan, ‘Exile’, 356/50
DOUGAN, Lucy, ‘Your Paintings’, 357/56
DUGGAN, Laurie, ‘An Ordinary Evening in Newtown’, 350/58
FARRELL, Michael, ‘Kangaroo Scientists of the Nineteenth Century’, 357/30
FIELD, Lynette, ‘The Tick’, 352/45
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Recuerdos de Bundaberg’, 353/59
HOLLAND-BATT, Sarah, ‘Life Cycle of the Eel’, 348/52
JAMES, Clive, ‘Early to Bed’, 350/25
JOHNSON, A. Frances, ‘Soar’, 356/24
JOHNSON, Judy, ‘Swans’, 353/45
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘The Fishhouse Review’, 356/30
LEW, Emma, ‘Fragile Pranks’, 348/63
LEW, Emma, ‘Steady Fetters’ 355/25
LYNCH, Anthony, ‘Crying on Cue’, 357/54
MAIDEN, Jennifer, ‘Diary Poem: Uses of Cosiness’, 350/56
MAIDEN, Jennifer, ‘Diary Poem: Uses of Frank O’Hara’, 352/23
MILES, Graeme, ‘In a Symbolist Mood’, 354/30
MURRAY, Les, ‘A Denizen’, 349/21
PLUNKETT, Felicity, ‘’Yellow’, 357/35
RYAN, Tracy, ‘Carousel’, 353/16
SHAPCOTT, Thomas, ‘Laugh’, 355/62
TRANTER, John, ‘The Consonants’, 351/48
WALLACE-CRABBE, ‘Chris, Fairly Fine Tuned Schedule Wise’, 354/27
ZWICKY, Fay, ‘Charon’, 351/56
THEATRE
DICKSON, Ian, Waiting for Godot, 357/41
ELTHAM, Ben, Rupert, 355/49
FUHRMANN, Andrew, A Clockwork Orange, 351/40
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Hate, 350/43
FUHRMANN, Andrew, Savages, 354/52
WAITES, James, ‘The Maids’, 353/60
WAITES, James, Hamlet, 356/49
WAITES, James, The Floating World, 356/49
VISUAL ARTS
HETHERINGTON, Paul, Australia, 356/55