Australian Book Review

May 1982, no. 40

May 1982, no. 40

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Memoir

The Gift of the Gab by Barry Dickins

by Georgia Savage

Fiction

The Newspaper of Claremont Street by Elizabeth Jolley

by Brian Dibble

Fiction

On Dearborn Street by Miles Franklin

Biography

Xavier Herbert by Laurie Clancy

Fiction

Plumb by Maurice Gee & Approaches by Garry Disher

by Nancy Keesing

Literary Studies

Exiles at Home: Australian women writers 1925–1945 by Drusilla Modjeska

Art

Arthur Streeton: The art without the man by Arline Usden

by Carmel Oakley

History

Power Conflict and Control in Australian Trade Unions edited by Kathryn Cole

Biography

Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career: Miles Franklin in America by Verna Coleman

by Beatrice Faust

Politics

Skills, Outlooks and Passions: A psychoanalytical contribution to the study of politics by A.F. Davies

by Jocelyn Clarke

Poetry

Nero’s Poems by Geoffrey Lehmann

by Bobbie Kaye Gledhill

Biography

Mucking Around: Five continents over fifty years by Naomi Mitchison

by Stephen Murray-Smith

Biography

Portrait in a Mirror: An autobiography by Alexandra Hasluck

Memoir

Trial Balance by H.C. Coombs

by Warren Osmond

Australian History

The History of the ACTU by Jim Hagan

by Jim Comerford

Fiction

David Buchbinder reviews four books

by David Buchbinder