November 2007, no. 296

Welcome to the November 2007 issue of Australian Book Review.

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Full Contents

Media

The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer by Paul Barry & Who Killed Channel 9? by Gerald Stone

by Margaret Simons

Art

Australian Pastoral: The making of a white landscape by Jeannette Hoorn

by Daniel Thomas

Biography

Courage: Eight portraits by Gordon Brown

by John Button

Poetry

Event by Judith Bishop

by Rose Lucas

Fiction

Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller

by Shirley Walker

History

Napoleon: The path to power 1769–1799 by Philip Dwyer

by David Garrioch

Australian History

Ochre And Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers by Philip Jones

by Mary Eagle

Australian History

The Australians: Insiders and outsiders on the national character since 1770 edited by John Hirst

by John Rickard

Diaries

The Diaries of Donald Friend, Vol. 4 edited by Paul Hetherington

by Paul Brunton

Fiction

The Fern Tattoo by David Brooks

by Judith Armstrong

Fiction

The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser

by Geordie Williamson

Gay Studies

What Happened To Gay Life?' by Robert Reynolds by Robert Reynolds

by Andy Quan

Poem

'Mary Shelley', a poem by Maria Takolander

by Maria Takolander

Reveries: Photography and mortality by Helen Ennis

by Isobel Crombie

River

by Judith Beveridge

Poetry

Field Guide

by Ian Gibbins

Poetry

Old/New World: New & selected poems by Peter Skrzynecki

by Anthony Lynch

Letters

Letters to the Editor

by Virginia Lowe, Ruth Starke, Thea Biesheuvel

Art

Bertram Mackennal: The Fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project by Deborah Edwards

by Christopher Menz

Memoir

Bad Hair Days by Pamela Bone

by Gregory Kratzmann

Art

Australian Impressionism edited by Terence Lane

by Vivien Gaston

Biography

Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick

by Nick Fischer

Essay Collection

‘Another Colosse on hand'

by Clive Probyn