December 2012–January 2013, no. 347
Welcome to our mega summer issue. Readers (and authors!) are always keen to know what our key writers regard as the ‘Books of the Year’. This year 26 critics nominate their favourite books – and tell us why they like them. They include Alex Miller, Brenda Niall,Kerryn Goldsworthy and Tony Birch. Nick Hordern reviews John Cantwell’s strikingly candid book Exit Wounds. We have reviews of new fiction by David Foster, J.K. Rowling and Christopher Koch; a short story by John Bryson; and a new poem by John Kinsella.
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Full Contents
Memoir
Exit Wounds: One Australian’s War on Terror by John Cantwell with Greg Bearup
by Nick Hordern
Science and Technology
The Best Australian Science Writing 2012 edited by Elizabeth Finkel
Military History
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies with Gary McKay
Cricket
Bradman’s War: How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield by Malcolm Knox
Philosophy
The Antipodean Philosopher, Volume 2: Interviews with Australian and New Zealand Philosophers edited by Graham Oppy and N.N. Trakakis
by Craig Taylor
Society
Sydney by Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington & From New Left to Factional Left by Alan Barcan
Literary Studies
Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by by Bernard Avishai
Natural History
Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists by Peter Macinnis
