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About Australian Book Review 08 July 2010
Australian Book Review (founded in 1961) was revived in 1978. It is one of Australia’s longest-standing major cultural magazines, presenting high-quality journalism and new writing for the widest possible audience. It engages with all the arts, not just literature. It is diverse in terms of content, writers, and partners, and provides a needed forum for new Australian writers and reviewers. ... (read more)

ABR Patrons' Fellowship

Competitions and programs 24 June 2010
Patrick Allington was the recipient of the inaugural ABR Patrons’ Fellowship, worth $5000. His novel, Figurehead (Black Inc. 2009) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. His short fiction and book criticism appears in Australian newspapers, magazines, and journals, including ABR. The June 2011 issue of Australian Book Review includes Allington's major critique of the Miles Fran ... (read more)

Online archive

Pages from old site 24 March 2010
November 2011, No. 336 Rodney Hall: Silence – James Ley   October 2011, No. 335 Alex Miller: Autumn Laing – Morag Fraser   September 2011, No. 334 Robert Hughes's flawed history of Rome – Peter Stothard   July–August 2011, No. 333 Coping with a resurgent China – Hugh White   June 2011, No. 332 'What is Australia, anyway?' – Patrick Allington   ... (read more)

ABR Reviewing Competition

Competitions and programs 23 March 2010
Winner of the 2009 ABR Reviewing Competition Only in America Kathleen Steele Roger’s World: Toward a New Understanding of Animals by Charles Siebert Scribe Publications $29.95 pb, 224 pp, 9781921372865 Ostensibly, Roger’s World is an account of Charles Siebert’s whistle-stop tour of primate retirement homes in America. By the author’s reckoning, there are approximately two ... (read more)

Index for 2009: Nos 308-317

Indexes 23 February 2010
REVIEWS INDEX 2009 ABJORENSEN, Norman, John Howard and the Conservative Tradition, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 309/25, Judith BrettADAMSON, Robert (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2009, Black Inc., 317/28, Gregory KratzmannALEXANDER, George, Slow Burn, UWA Publishing, 317/62, Adam RivettALLINGTON, Patrick, Figurehead, Black Inc., 315/49, Alison BroinowskiAMSTERDAM, Steven, Things We Didn’t ... (read more)

Staff

About Australian Book Review 01 August 2009
(photo by Brent Lukey)Editor and CEO In 2001 Peter Rose became the Editor of Australian Book Review. Previously he was a publisher at Oxford University Press. He has published several books of poetry, an award-winning family memoir, Rose Boys, and two novels, the most recent being Roddy Parr (Fourth Estate, 2010). His latest poetry collections are Rag (Gazebo Books, ... (read more)

Subscribe Online Help

Subscription 02 August 2009
We understand that shopping online can be confusing so we have prepared the following step by step guide to subscribing to ABR. Step 1 - From the Subscribe menu item above, select Subscribe Online to go to the subscriptions page. Open a new browser window to do this so that you can continue to follow these instructions. Step 2 - Complete the Personal Details section of the subscription form. In ... (read more)

Index for 2000: Nos 218-227

Indexes 02 August 2009
REVIEWS INDEX 2000 ADAMS, Annemaree, The Dogs, Five Islands Press, 225/54, Jenny HarrisonADAMS, Francis, The Murder of Madeline Brown, Text Publishing, 225/46, Miriam ManneAITKEN, Adam, Romeo and Juliet in Subtitles, Brandl & Schlesinger, 220/51, Thomas ShapcottAKIWENZIE-DAMM, Kateri and Josie Douglas (eds), Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing, Jukurrpa Books, 227/17, Alison RavenscroftA ... (read more)

Index for 2001: Nos 228-237

Indexes 02 August 2009
REVIEWS INDEX 2001 AARONS, Mark, War Criminals Welcome, Black Inc., 233/36, David FraserAboriginal Australia & the Torres Strait Islands, Lonely Planet, 237/40, Bruce SimsABRAHAM, Lindy, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery, CUP, 237/35, Paul SalzmanACKLAND, Michael, Damaged Men, Allen & Unwin, 228/38, Laurie HergenhanADAMSON, Robert, Mulberry Leaves, Paper Bark Press, 230/53, Martin DuwellALEXANDE ... (read more)

Index for 2002: Nos 238-247

Indexes 02 August 2009
REVIEWS INDEX 2002 ADLERSTEIN, Marion von, The Penguin Book of Etiquette, Viking, 243/43, Anna GoldsworthyAITKEN, Graeme (ed.), The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing, Penguin, 247/28, Peter PorterALLEN, Pamela, The Potato People, Viking, 240/60, Margaret Robson KettALLEN, Pamela, Daisy All-Sorts, Viking, 245/58, Moira RobinsonALLEN, Traudi, Cross-currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Craf ... (read more)
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