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April 2006, no. 280

April 2006, no. 280

Welcome to the April 2006 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Full Contents

Commentary

'How small the light of home': Andrew McGahan and the politics of guilt

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Fiction

Passarola Rising by Azhar Abidi

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Literary Studies

Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the fiction of Peter Carey edited by Andreas Gaile

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Fiction

The Butterfly Man by Heather Rose

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Essay Collection

The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001–2005 by Clive James

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Fiction

Theft: A love story by Peter Carey

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Fiction

Shadowboxing by Tony Birch

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Fiction

'Dead Set' by Kel Robertson

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Gillian Dooley reviews 'Born of the Sun: Seven young Australian lives' by Gerald Walsh

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A Racket

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From the Archives

Gillian Dooley reviews 'National Treasures from Australia’s Great Libraries' by NLA

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Caesar of the Antarctic

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Dan Toner reviews 'The Line: A man’s experience; a son’s quest to understand' by Arch and Martin Flanagan

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From the Archives

Dan Toner reviews 'Chappelli Speaks Out' by Ashley Mallett (with Ian Chappell)

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From the Archives

Avec teeth, avec taste, avec everything

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Judith Bishop on winning the 2006 ABR Poetry Prize

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Jo Case reviews 'From Under a Leaky Roof: Afghan refugees in Australia' by Phil Sparrow

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Dr Frankenstein’s school of history

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Angela Downes reviews 'Pictures of Us' by Todd Alexander

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Cultural Studies

A fractured web

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Letters

April 2006 - Letters

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Advances

April 2006 - Advances

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Commentary

National Security and the 'Disturbed State of Public Mind'

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Television

Australian Film & TV Companion: Second edition by Tony Harrison

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Australian History

Evolutionary politics

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Australian Fiction

Parched romances

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Journals

Chips on the table

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Verse Novel

Steady pools

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Non-fiction

Demolitionists

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Journalism

Home for hard men

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Poetry

A Whiter Shade of Pale

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Poetry

Hunting Swans: Annaghmakerrig, Ireland

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Commentary

The State of the Art

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Non-fiction

Seddon's swansong

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Non-fiction

Mary's booty

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Fiction

The Rope Dancer by Rob Leach

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Philosophy

If and only if

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Journals

A tale of two journals

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Fiction

The Park Bench by Henry von Doussa

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Biography

Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and controversial founding father of the Australian Labor Party by Aneurin Hughes

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Poetry

Coast by Margaret Bradstock & The Kindly Ones by Susan Hampton

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