
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.
Exit Wounds: One Australian’s War on Terror by John Cantwell with Greg Bearup
Tales from the Political Trenches by Maxine McKew
by Jane Goodall
Lost Voices by Christopher Koch
by Don Anderson
JOHN KEATS: A NEW LIFE by Nicholas Roe
The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy by Pamela Burton
The Best Australian Science Writing 2012 edited by Elizabeth Finkel
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
by James Ley
Man of Letters: Dog Rock 3 by David Foster
by Susan Lever
The Seaglass Spiral by Alan Gould
The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer by Edwina Preston
The Tower Mill by James Moloney
by Sky Kirkham
An Unknown Sky and Other Stories by Susan Midalia
by Robert Horne
The Darkest Little Room by Patrick Holland
Walter by Ashley Sievwright
Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux
Davis McCaughey: A Life by Sarah Martin
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
by Sally Burton
On Warne by Gideon Haigh
The Best Australian Business Writing 2012 edited by Andrew Cornell
London: A History in Verse edited by Mark Ford
My Umbrian Kitchen by atrizia Simone with Caroline Pizzey
Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land by Anne Gray
Vassilieff and His Art by Felicity St John Moore
Collusion by Brook Emery
British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order by Barry Forshaw
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
The Antipodean Philosopher, Volume 2: Interviews with Australian and New Zealand Philosophers edited by Graham Oppy and N.N. Trakakis
by Craig Taylor
Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies with Gary McKay
Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by by Bernard Avishai
Canberry Tales: An Informal History by Granville Allen Mawer
Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists by Peter Macinnis
Into that Forest by Louis Nowra
by Laura Elvery