December 2013–January 2014, no. 357
Books of the Year 2013
Reviewed by Robert Adamson et al.
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Reviewed by Mary Cunnane
My Brief History by Stephen Hawking
Reviewed by Robyn Williams
The Mad Marathon: The story of the 2013 Election by Mungo MacCallum
Reviewed by Shane Carmody
Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family by Gabrielle Carey
Reviewed by Susan Sheridan
Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey, and Michelle Cahill
Reviewed by John Kinsella
Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir by Robert Kenny
Reviewed by Ian Gibbins
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
Reviewed by Gillian Dooley
Open Page with Garry Disher
Reviewed by Garry Disher
News from the Editor's Desk
Reviewed by The Editors
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
Reviewed by Robert Dessaix
Debbie Hamilton's 'Out of Bounds'
Reviewed by Debi Hamilton
Tide by John Kinsella
Reviewed by Maria Takolander
His Stupid Boyhood: A Memoir by Peter Goldsworthy
Reviewed by Kári Gíslason
Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher
Reviewed by Ray Cassin
Getting Warmer by Alan Carter
Reviewed by Simon Collinson
The Shadow Year by Hannah Richell
Reviewed by Milly Main
Watching You by Michael Robotham
Reviewed by Ray Cassin
Banana Girl: A Memoir by Michele Lee
Reviewed by Sara Savage
Changing Gears: A Pedal-powered Detour from the Rat Race by Greg Foyster
Reviewed by Alastair Collins
How to Tell Your Father to Drop Dead by Jeremy Fisher
Reviewed by Jay Daniel Thompson
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
Reviewed by Robert Dare
The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860–1920 by Martyn Lyons
Reviewed by Paul Pickering
Stranger by the Lake
Reviewed by Dion Kagan
Cinema by Alain Badiou, translated by Susan Spitzer
Reviewed by Hamish Ford
World Film Locations: Melbourne edited by Neil Mitchell
Reviewed by Benjamin Millar
Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002–2012 by Geoffrey O'Brien
Reviewed by Jake Wilson
Waiting for Godot
Reviewed by Ian Dickson
Living in a Modern Way: California Design 1930–1965 edited by Wendy Kaplan
Reviewed by Christopher Menz
Even in the Dark by Rose Lucas
Reviewed by Cassandra Atherton
Ephemeral Waters by Kate Middleton
Reviewed by Peter Kenneally
The Watchmaker's Imprint by Ian Templeman
Reviewed by Dennis Haskell
It Comes From All Directions by Rae Desmond Jones
Reviewed by Martin Duwell
One Soufflé at a Time: A Memoir of Food and France by Anne Willan
Reviewed by Gay Bilson
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells
Reviewed by Ian Donaldson
English as a Vocation: The Scrutiny Movement by Christopher Hilliard
Reviewed by Alexander Howard
Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the ‘Natural History’ by Sarah Blake McHam
Reviewed by Christopher Allen
For the True Believers: Great Labor Speeches that Shaped History edited by Troy Bramston
Reviewed by Lyndon Megarrity
An Unqualified Success: The Extraordinary Life of Allan Percy Fleming by Peter Golding
Reviewed by Graeme Powell
Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era by David M. Dorsen
Reviewed by Michael Crennan
Queen's College the University of Melbourne: A Pictorial History 1887–2012 edited by Jennifer Bars, Sophia T. Pavlovski-Ross, and David T. Runia
Reviewed by Wilfrid Prest
The Last Girl by Michael Adams
Reviewed by Margot McGovern
Wildlife by Fiona Wood
Reviewed by Emma Hayes