December 2012–January 2013, no. 347

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

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Tales from the Political Trenches by Maxine McKew

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Lost Voices by Christopher Koch

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'Patrick White to the Rescue' by David Carter

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JOHN KEATS: A NEW LIFE by Nicholas Roe

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The Waterlow Killings: A Portrait of a Family Tragedy by Pamela Burton

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Books of the Year 2012

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2012 edited by Elizabeth Finkel

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News from the Editor's Desk

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Letters to the Editor

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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

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Man of Letters: Dog Rock 3 by David Foster

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The Seaglass Spiral by Alan Gould

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The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer by Edwina Preston

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The Tower Mill by James Moloney

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An Unknown Sky and Other Stories by Susan Midalia

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Nightfall by Will Elliott

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The Darkest Little Room by Patrick Holland

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Walter by Ashley Sievwright

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Strindberg: A Life by Sue Prideaux

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Davis McCaughey: A Life by Sarah Martin

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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons

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Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz

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On Warne by Gideon Haigh

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Bradman’s War: How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield by Malcolm Knox

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The Best Australian Business Writing 2012 edited by Andrew Cornell

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London: A History in Verse edited by Mark Ford

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My Umbrian Kitchen by atrizia Simone with Caroline Pizzey

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Sydney Long: The Spirit of the Land by Anne Gray

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Vassilieff and His Art by Felicity St John Moore

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Collusion by Brook Emery

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Wild Surmise

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British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order by Barry Forshaw

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'Kindly Death', a new story by John Bryson

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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

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'Brother', a new poem by John Kinsella

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The Antipodean Philosopher, Volume 2: Interviews with Australian and New Zealand Philosophers edited by Graham Oppy and N.N. Trakakis

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Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War by Bruce Davies with Gary McKay

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Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness by by Bernard Avishai

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Canberry Tales: An Informal History by Granville Allen Mawer

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Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists by Peter Macinnis

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Joy Lawn reviews recent picture books

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Into that Forest by Louis Nowra

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