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Absolutely Revolting

November 2012, no. 346

November 2012, no. 346

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Full Contents

Advances

News from the Editor's Desk

by Hidden Author

Biography

Gough Whitlam: His Time: The Biography, Volume II by Jenny Hocking

by Neal Blewett

Memoir

Speechless: by James Button

Poetry

Autoethnographic by Michael Brennan

by Peter Kenneally

Fiction

Midnight Empire by Andrew Croome

by Jay Daniel Thompson

Fiction

The Conversation by David Brooks

by Cassandra Atherton

Fiction

Like a House on Fire by Cate Kennedy

by Anthony Lynch

Fiction

The Marmalade Files by Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann

Fiction

We All Fall Down by Peter Barry

by Denise O'Dea

China

The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power by Hugh White

Art

A Steady Hand: Governor Hunter & His First Fleet Sketchbook by Linda Groom

by Alisa Bunbury

Biography

Broomstick: Personal Reflections of Leonie Kramer by Leonie Kramer

by Brigitta Olubas

Commentary

'Who’s afraid of the ‘E’ word?' by David Collis

by David Collis

Memoir

Montebello: A Memoir by Robert Drewe

by Brian Matthews

Environmental Studies

A Short Introduction to Climate Change by Tony Eggleton

Letters

Letters to the Editor

by Hidden Author

Fiction

The Rest is Weight by Jennifer Mills & Tarcutta Wake by Josephine Rowe

by William Heyward

Poem

'Tide: My Father’s Dementia', a new poem by Mike Ladd

Poem

'Convocation', a new poem by Gareth Robinson

by Gareth Robinson

Cultural Studies

Dark Night: Walking With McCahon by Martin Edmond

by Shannon Burns

Architecture

JJ Clark: Architect of the Australian Renaissance by Andrew Dodd

Biography

Gina Rinehart by Adele Ferguson & The House of Hancock by Debi Marshall

by Jan McGuinness

Poetry

Cumulus: Collected Poems by Robert Gray

by Martin Duwell

Biography

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

by Peter Heerey

Biography

Edmund Spenser: A Life by Andrew Hadfield

Features

Now They've Gone

by Colin Nettelbeck

Commentary

'AustLit coming your way' by Kerry Kilner

by Kerry Kilner

Politics

The Making of Modern Liberalism by Alan Ryan

History

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe by Norman Davies

by Norman Etherington

Literary Studies

Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton

by Margaret Harris

Children's Fiction

The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey & Word Hunters: The Curious Dictionary by Nick Earls and Terry Whidborne

by Sophie Splatt

Cartoon

Ben Juers's cartoon on the school system

Military History

The Second World War by Antony Beevor