December 2012–January 2013, no. 347
Exit Wounds: One Australian’s War on Terror by John Cantwell with Greg Bearup
Reviewed by Nicholas Hordern
Tales from the Political Trenches by Maxine McKew
Reviewed by Jane Goodall
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch
Reviewed by Don Anderson
JOHN KEATS: A NEW LIFE by Nicholas Roe
Reviewed by William Christie
The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy by Pamela Burton
Reviewed by Alison Broinowski
Books of the Year 2012
Reviewed by Dennis Altman et al.
The Best Australian Science Writing 2012 edited by Elizabeth Finkel
Reviewed by Robyn Williams
News from the Editor's Desk
Reviewed by The Editors
Letters to the Editor
Reviewed by Phil Shannon et al.
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Reviewed by James Ley
Man of Letters: Dog Rock 3 by David Foster
Reviewed by Susan Lever
The Seaglass Spiral by Alan Gould
Reviewed by Jane Sullivan
The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer by Edwina Preston
Reviewed by Gillian Dooley
The Tower Mill by James Moloney
Reviewed by Sky Kirkham
An Unknown Sky and Other Stories by Susan Midalia
Reviewed by Robert Horne
The Darkest Little Room by Patrick Holland
Reviewed by Jay Daniel Thompson
Walter by Ashley Sievwright
Reviewed by Crusader Hillis
Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux
Reviewed by Kári Gíslason
Davis McCaughey: A Life by Sarah Martin
Reviewed by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
Reviewed by David McCooey
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
Reviewed by Sally Burton
On Warne by Gideon Haigh
Reviewed by Brian Matthews
Bradman’s War: How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield by Malcolm Knox
Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress
The Best Australian Business Writing 2012 edited by Andrew Cornell
Reviewed by Gillian Terzis
London: A History in Verse edited by Mark Ford
Reviewed by Geoffrey Lehmann
My Umbrian Kitchen by atrizia Simone with Caroline Pizzey
Reviewed by Christopher Menz
Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land by Anne Gray
Reviewed by Steven Miller
Vassilieff and His Art by Felicity St John Moore
Reviewed by Robin Wallace-Crabbe
Collusion by Brook Emery
Reviewed by Anthony Lynch
Wild Surmise
Reviewed by Andrew Fuhrmann
British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order by Barry Forshaw
Reviewed by Michael Fleming
Sydney: The Making of a Public University by Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington & From New Left to Factional Left: Fifty Years of Student Activism at Sydney University by Alan Barcan
Reviewed by Richard Broinowski
'Brother', a new poem by John Kinsella
Reviewed by John Kinsella
The Antipodean Philosopher, Volume 2: Interviews with Australian and New Zealand Philosophers edited by Graham Oppy and N.N. Trakakis
Reviewed by Craig Taylor
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies with Gary McKay
Reviewed by Peter Edwards
Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by by Bernard Avishai
Reviewed by Shannon Burns
Canberry Tales: An Informal History by Granville Allen Mawer
Reviewed by John Thompson
Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists by Peter Macinnis
Reviewed by Peter Menkhorst
Joy Lawn reviews recent picture books
Reviewed by Joy Lawn
Into that Forest by Louis Nowra
Reviewed by Laura Elvery