Amy Baillieu
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)
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
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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)
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)
(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)
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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)
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)
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)