May 1982, no. 40
The Newspaper of Claremont Street by Elizabeth Jolley
Reviewed by Brian Dibble
Trial Balance by H.C. Coombs
Reviewed by Warren Osmond
On Dearborn Street by Miles Franklin
Reviewed by Axel Clark
Exiles at Home: Australian women writers 1925–1945 by Drusilla Modjeska
Reviewed by Judy Turner
Xavier Herbert by Laurie Clancy
Reviewed by Don Grant
Portrait in a Mirror: An autobiography by Alexandra Hasluck
Reviewed by Kate White
Mucking Around: Five continents over fifty years by Naomi Mitchison
Reviewed by Stephen Murray-Smith
Nero’s Poems by Geoffrey Lehmann
Reviewed by Bobbie Kaye Gledhill
Her Unknown (Brilliant) Career: Miles Franklin in America by Verna Coleman
Reviewed by Beatrice Faust
Plumb by Maurice Gee & Approaches by Garry Disher
Reviewed by Nancy Keesing
Arthur Streeton: The art without the man by Arline Usden
Reviewed by Carmel Oakley