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April 1986, no. 79

Full Contents

Don Dunstan reviews 'Ascent to Power' by Brian Dale, 'The Wran Model: Electoral politics in NSW in 1981 and 1984' edited by Ernie Chaples, Helen Nelson, and Ken Turner, and 'The Bjelke-Peterson Premiership 1968–1983' edited by Allan Patience

The Bunburyists by Anthony Hill

The Man of Slow Feeling by Michael Wilding

Their Solitary Way by Julian Croft

Vietnam: A Reporter’s War by Hugh Lunn

U.S. Reporting

The Liberals – Factions, Feuds and Fancies by Patrick O’Brien

Poems From a Peach Melba Hat by Shelton Lead

The History and Design of the Australian House edited by Robert Irving & Australia’s Iron Lace by Brian Turner

In Her Own Image by Anna Murdoch

Flames and Ether by Felix Donnelly

Children’s Books: Worth the effort?

An American Looks at the Australian ‘Renaissance’

The Health Farm Murders by Tom Howard & The Beach-Front Murders by Tom Howard

Poem of Thanksgiving and Other Poems edited by Paul Kavanagh & Poems Selected From The Australian’s 20th Anniversary’ edited by Judith Rodriguez and Andrew Taylor

Abbreviations

European Vision and the South Pacific by Bernard Smith

'Self Portrait' by Barry Dickins

From Bookstall to Boom: Paperback publishing in Australia

The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger edited by Kay Dreyfus

The Cloud Passes Over by Robert Harris

The Night We Ate the Sparrow: A memoir and fourteen stories by Morris Lurie

Borderline by Janette Turner Hospital

About Tilly Beamis by Sumner Locke Elliott

Nuns in Jeopardy by Martin Boyd

Lasseter: The making of a legend by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

Starters & Writers

What the Dickins! A symposium of the low life by Barry Dickins

A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough

Smokey Dawson: A Life by Herbert Henry Dawson