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February 2006, no. 278

February 2006, no. 278

Welcome to the February 2006 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Full Contents

Fiction

The Summons by David Whish-Wilson

Fiction

The Poet: A novella by Alex Skovron

Australian Poetry

The Collected Verse Of Mary Gilmore: Volume 1 1887–1929 edited by Jennifer Strauss

Essay Collection

The Bone House: Essays by Beverley Farmer

Poetry

The Universe Looks Down by Chris Wallace-Crabbe & Read It Again by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Fiction

The Best Australian Stories 2005 edited by Frank Moorhouse

Cricket

My Spin On Cricket by Richie Benaud & Out Of My Comfort Zone by Steve Waugh

Young Adult Fiction

In Hollow Lands by Sophie Masson

Literary Studies

Gore Vidal’s America by Dennis Altman

Fiction

The Spruiker’s Tale by Catherine Rey (translated by Andrew Riemer)

Biography

Henry Handel Richardson: A life by Michael Ackland

Australian History

Mixed Relations: Histories and stories of Asian–Aboriginal contact in north Australia by Regina Ganter (with Julia Martinez and Gary Lee)

Non-fiction

What Was It All For? by Don Aitken & Australia Fair by Hugh Stretton

Australian History

Eyewitness: Australians write from the front-line by Garrie Hutchinson

Memoir

One Brief Interval: A memoir by Edward Woodward

Non-fiction

Australia Imagined: Views from the British periodical press, 1800–1900 edited by Judith Johnston and Monica Anderson

History

Is History Fiction? by Ann Curthoys and John Docker

Poetry

Subterranean Radio Songs by Joel Deane & Suburban Anatomy by Penelope Layland

Memoir

Noeline by Noeline Brown & Much Love, Jac X by Jacki Weaver

History

A Short History of the 20th Century by Geoffrey Blainey

Literary Studies

Agenda edited by Patricia McCarthy & Jacket 28, October 2005 edited by John Tranter