Non Fiction
Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight
by Joel Deane •
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945 by Max Hastings
by Robin Prior •
I first discovered Australian literature in Argentina. While I was there studying Argentinian literature at the University of Buenos Aires in 2009–10, I spent many nights hunched over the table in our dingy kitchen with one of my housemates, Teresa. We would pick over the politically infused vernacular of the short stories ...
... (read more)Bernard Whimpress reviews 'The Premier and the Pastoralist: William Morgan and Peter Waite' by James Waite
by Bernard Whimpress •
Family histories have their limitations. One compensation is to discover famous or infamous ancestors. In most Australian states, disinterring a convict becomes a badge of honour. In South Australia, having a nineteenth-century premier and a noted pastoralist in one’s lineage advances a claim to fame ...
... (read more)In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
by Melinda Harvey •
Brett Whiteley: A sensual line 1957–67 by Kathie Sutherland
by Vivien Gaston •
Man with a Blue Scarf: On sitting for a portrait by Martin Gayford
by Angus Trumble •
The Donald Friend Diaries: Chronicles & Confessions of an Australian Artist edited by Ian Britain (foreword by Barry Humphries)
by Patrick McCaughey •