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Absolutely Revolting

Non Fiction

Things My Mother Taught Me by Claire Halliday

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Daniel Juckes reviews 'Things My Mother Taught Me' by Claire Halliday

Claire Halliday's Things My Mother Taught Me opens thus: 'History is a personal thing.' But in this book – a collection of interviews with famous Australians about ...

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From the Outer: Footy like you've never heard it edited by Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Patrick Allington reviews 'From the Outer: Footy like you've never heard it' edited by Alicia Sometimes and Nicole Hayes

'With time,' writes Australian Rules Football goal umpire Chelsea Roffey, 'I wrapped my lady brain around the mathematics of scoring.' Roffey's account of ...

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Advanced Australia: The politics of ageing by Mark Butler

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Renata Singer reviews 'Advanced Australia: The politics of ageing' by Mark Butler

Even before I'd finished talking, hands shot up from the grey heads in the audience. 'I'm very concerned,' said the jowly chap with the sailor's suntan, 'that advances ...

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Fighters in the Shadows: A new history of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Peter Monteath reviews 'Fighters in the Shadows: A new history of the French Resistance' by Robert Gildea

Charles de Gaulle remains, for many, the quintessence of Gallic defiance through the dark years of World War II. Not only did he symbolise the famed resistance, he ...

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In a Different Key: The story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Nick Haslam reviews 'In a Different Key: The story of Autism' by John Donvan and Caren Zucker

There may or may not be an epidemic of autism, but the idea of 'autism' has been remarkably catching. Once understood as a vanishingly rare condition, identified only in 1943 ...

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Georgiana Molloy: The mind that shines by Bernice Barry

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Danielle Clode reviews 'Georgiana Molloy: The mind that shines' by Bernice Barry

By the end of the eighteenth-century, botany was one of the few sciences regarded as suitable for women. Carolus Linnaeus had infamously ...

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Anzac Day Then and Now edited by Tom Frame

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Seumas Spark reviews 'Anzac Day Then and Now' edited by Tom Frame

I hazard a guess that more books are published on Anzac – the day, the legend, the myth – than on any other subject in Australian history. The least of these ...

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Road Series by Hugo Race

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Doug Wallen reviews 'Road Series' by Hugo Race

The dislocation of international travel often prompts spontaneous moments of clarity, sparking a renewed awareness of where one is at in life ...

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The Boy on the Tricycle by Marcel Weyland & The May Beetles by Baba Schwartz

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Boy on the Tricycle' by Marcel Weyland and 'The May Beetles' by Baba Schwartz

Memoirs of Eastern European children of the 1920s could hardly be more different than this pair. The old age Marcel Weyland describes in The Boy on the Tricycle ...

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Dancing to His Song: The singular cinema of Rolf de Heer by Jane Freebury

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Jake Wilson reviews 'Dancing to His Song: The singular cinema of Rolf de Heer' by Jane Freebury

More has been written about Rolf de Heer than about most Australian film directors of his generation, but Jane Freebury's Dancing to His Song contains ...

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