Australian Book Review

December 2006–January 2007, no. 287

December 2006–January 2007, no. 287

Welcome to the December 2006–January 2007 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Full Contents

Window

Aspects of Holiness

by Rosemary Dobson

Biography

A Thinking Reed by Barry Jones

by Neal Blewett

Poetry

The Oxford Book of American Poetry by David Lehman

Language

A Conga Line of Suckholes: Mark Latham’s book of quotations by Mark Latham

by Fred Ludowyk

Books of the Year

Books of the Year 2006

by Australian Book Review

Memoir

Days Like These by Michael Gurr

Letters

Letters - December 2006 – January 2007

by Australian Book Review

Books of the Year

Best Children's and Young Adult Books

by Kathy Kozlowski, Pam Macintyre, Stephanie Owen Reeder, Anna Ryan-Punch, Mike Shuttleworth, Ruth Starke

Architecture

The odd couple

by Sylvia Lawson

Memoir

Things I Didn’t Know by Robert Hughes & North Face of Soho by Clive James

Warming the pews

by Michael McGirr

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

by Brian McFarlane

Biography

Scholar and patriot

by John Rickard

Fiction

Sleeping dictionary

by Aviva Tuffield

Non-fiction

The licensed fool's vocation

by Robert Phiddian

Memoir

Damascene moments

by Alison Broinowski

Antipodean Boswell

by Paul Hetherington

Journals

Boomers and Beemers

by Kate McFadyen

Poetry

Good old goodies

by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Advances | December 2006 - January 2007

by Australian Book Review

Non-fiction

After Heide

Australian History

Pyromaniac nation

by Tom Griffiths

Poetry

A Poet's Life 1963-2005 by Marjorie Pizer

Non-fiction

Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements by Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer

by Jay Thompson

Short Stories

Allnighter edited by Cardigan Press

by Annie Condon

Non-fiction

Emails from the Edge: A journey through troubled times by Ken Haley

by Rebecca Starford

Fiction

Silent Parts by John Charalambous

by George Dunford

Fiction

The Island of Four Rivers by Christopher Morgan

Essay Collection

When Books Die: 15 Essays edited by Finlay Lloyd

Australian History

Quest junkies

by Christina Hill

Australian Fiction

Displaced heroes

by Kabita Dhara

War

So many never seen

The lessons of civilising imperialism

by Jonathan Pearlman

Mother knows best

by Paul Brunton

A fight in a pub

by Braham Dabscheck

Clarity and mastery

by Gregory Kratzmann

Radical Drewe

by Delia Falconer

Children's Fiction

Raising a smile

Biography

All about Jenny

Biography

Last man standing

by Graeme Turner