Non Fiction
Forbidden Music by Michael Haas & Hollywood and Hitler by Thomas Doherty
by Michael Morley •
A War of Words: The man who talked 4000 Japanese into surrender by Hamish McDonald
by Darren Swanson •
Don Dunstan, Intimacy & Liberty: A political biography by Dino Hodge
by Lyndon Megarrity •
In My Mother's Hands: A disturbing memoir of family life by Biff Ward
by Sheila Fitzpatrick •
There was a recent flurry of Australian media interest in the wake of the publication of a new edition of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, edited by Tony Thorne. Thorne only added a small number of new Australian slang termsto the new edition: ‘ort’, buttocks; ‘tockley’, penis; and ‘unit’, defined as a bogan. The apparent lack of new Australian slang terms was a cause of some anxiety: did it indicate we were losing our famed linguistic inventiveness? Was it a sign of our maturing as a nation? Or did it mean that Americanisms had finally taken over our language?
... (read more)Behind the Doors: An art history from Yuendumu by Philip Jones with Warlukurlangu Artists
by Colin Golvan •