ADVANCES

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FEATURES

 The travails of Bill Clinton – Morag Fraser

 The Balibo Five – Jill Jolliffe

 Furore in Israel – Jonathan Pearlman

 Vodka fumes – Kate Holden

Visiting Randolph Stow – Laurie Hergenhan

Australia’s premier historian – Jim Davidson

Contra Louis Nowra – Brian McFarlane

An elegy for Peter Porter – Clive James

Open Page – Lisa Gorton

LETTERS

Gareth Knapman, Linda Funnell, Phillipa McGuinness

CRIME

Una Glennon: Ciara’s Gift

Colleen Egan: Murderer No More – Richard Harding

MEMOIRS

Michael O’Connor: New Guinea Days – Peter Pierce

LITERARY STUDIES

Edith Grossman: Why Translation Matters – Simon West

Bruce Bennett et al. (eds): Of Sadhus and Spinners – Rick Hosking

Helen Vendler: Last Looks, Last Books – Barry Hill

Victor Marsh: Mr Isherwood Changes Trains – Sarah Kanowski

JOURNALS

Ivor Indyk (ed.): HEAT 22 – Patrick Allington

FICTION

John Birmingham: After America – Ben Eltham

Michelle Lovric: The Book of Human Skin – Melinda Harvey

Emmett Stinson: Known Unknowns – Chris Flynn

Gregory Day: The Grand Hotel – Cheryl Jorgensen

Honey Brown: The Good Daughter – Laurie Steed

Tess Evans: Book of Lost Threads – Susan Gorgioski

AUDIO

Jack Thompson: The Bush Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson

The Campfire Yarns of Henry Lawson

The Sentimental Bloke, the Poems of C.J. Dennis  

The Battlefield Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson – Adrian Mitchell

BIOGRAPHY

Jim Davidson: A Three-Cornered Life – Deryck Schreuder

Annette Stewart: Barbara Hanrahan – Craig Munro

ART

John Jones: Robert Dowling – David Hansen

REFERENCE

Richard Neville and Paul Brunton: One Hundred – John Thompson

M.O. Grenby and Andrea Immel (eds): The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature – Brenda Niall

CULTURAL STUDIES

Helen MacDonald: Possessing the Dead – Daniel Vuillermin

PSYCHOLOGY

Iain McGilchrist: The Master and His Emissary – Ian Gibbins

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill: Radical Sydney – Don Anderson

MILITARY HISTORY

Michael Challinger: Anzacs in Arkhangel – Jeffrey Grey

POETRY

David Musgrave: Phantom Limb – Andrew Sant

ANTHOLOGY

Carmel Bird (ed.): Home Truth – Felicity Plunkett

PICTURE BOOKS SURVEY

Stephanie Owen Reeder

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Carole Wilkinson: Sugar Sugar – Amy Baillieu

Rebecca James: Beautiful Malice – Maya Linden