December 2016, no. 387

December 2016, no. 387

Books of the Year 2016

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The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton

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The Sellout by Paul Beatty

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Letter to Pessoa & Other Short Fictions by Michelle Cahill

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Hydra as intimate theatre by Paul Genoni

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2016 Publisher Picks

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Brian Matthews reviews 'The Story of Australia’s People: The rise and rise of a New Australia' by Geoffrey Blainey

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The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble

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The Fiction of Thea Astley by Susan Sheridan

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Press Escape by Shaun Carney

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Songs of a War Boy: My story by Deng Thiak Adut and Ben McKelvey

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ISIS: A history by Fawaz A. Gerges

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The Holy Roman Empire: a thousand years of Europe’s history by Peter H. Wilson

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Crusoe’s Island: rich and curious history of pirates, castaways and madness by Andrew Lambert

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A Tear in the Soul by Amanda Webster

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'Deep Knowledge' by Caitlin Maling

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'The Sizzler at the York Agricultural Show, 2016' by John Kinsella

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Moonglow by Michael Chabon

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Inexperience and other stories by Anthony Macris

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Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil by Melina Marchetta

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The Winterlings by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, translated by Samuel Rutter

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The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs

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Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell

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Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History by Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez

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Franz Liszt: Musician, celebrity, superstar by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Stewart Spencer

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Fair Game: The incredible untold story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane

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The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver

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Ivan Pavlov: A Russian life in science by Daniel P. Todes

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 edited by Jo Chandler

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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children by Alison Gopnik

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The Day the Music Died: A life lived behind the lens by Tony Garnett

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The Life of D.H. Lawrence by Andrew Harrison

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Comfort Food by Ellen van Neerven

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An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope, edited by Tom Jones

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Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the shot that changed cricket by Gideon Haigh

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The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon

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Open page with Peter Singer

News from the Editor's Desk - December 2016

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Letters to the Editor - December 2016

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