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Index for 2010: Nos 318-327
REVIEWS INDEX 2010
AARONS, Mark, The Family File, Black Inc., 324/25, Dennis Altman
ABELA, Deborah, Grimsdon, Random House, 325/71, Kate Eltham
ADAMS, Simon, The Unforgiving Rope: Murder and Hanging on Australia’s Western Frontier, UWAP, 319/51, Richard Harding
AHMAD, Irfan, Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-E-Islami, Princeton University Press, 325/51, Greg Barton
ALBERT, Jane, House of Hits, Hardie Grant Books, 321/23, Jay Daniel Thompson
ALY, Waleed, What’s Right? The Future of Conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay 37), Black Inc., 321/38, Jay Daniel Thompson
ANDERSON, Patricia, Robert Hughes: The Australian Years, Pandora Press, 320/19, Daniel Vuillermin
APTER, Jeff, Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers, Random House, 322/44, Dean Biron
ARCHER, Robyn, Detritus: Addressing Culture and the Arts, UWAP, 324/64, Alison Broinowski
ARNOLD, John and Lynette Russell (eds), The La Trobe Journal, No. 85, State Library of Victoria, 325/70, Maria Nugent
ASHTON, Wayne, Equator, Fremantle Press, 324/43, Cheryl Jorgensen
AVERILL, Roger, Keeping Faith, Transit Lounge, 319/63, Adam Rivett
BAKER, Jeannie, Mirror, Walker Books, 326/79, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BARTULIN, Lenny, The Black Russian, Scribe, 318/26, Rebecca Starford
BASE, Graeme, The Legend of the Golden Snail, Viking, 326/79, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BATESON, Catherine, Marriage for Beginners, John Leonard Press, 318/38, Prithvi Varatharajan
BATUMAN, Elif, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, Text, 325/67, Alex Lewis
BAUER, Michael Gerard, You Turkeys!, Omnibus, 322/67, Ruth Starke
BAUER, Jon, Rocks in the Belly, Scribe, 325/35, Philip Salom
BEILHARZ, Peter, Socialism and Modernity, University of Minnesota Press, 318/44, Ian Tregenza
BENNETT, Bruce et al. (eds), Of Sadhus and Spinners: Australian Encounters with India, HarperCollins, 323/30, Rick Hosking
BERESFORD, Richard, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth-Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, Art Gallery of NSW, 326/75,Christopher Menz
BERGNER, Herz, Between Sky and Sea, Text, 324/35, Richard Freadman
BIRD, Carmel, Child of the Twilight, Fourth Estate, 319/17, Gillian Dooley
BIRD, Carmel (ed.), Home Truth, Fourth Estate, 323/67, Felicity Plunkett
BIRMINGHAM, John, After America, Macmillan, 323/35, Ben Eltham
BLAIR, Tony, A Journey, Hutchinson, 327/10, John Hirst
BLAND, Nick, Twinkle, Scholastic, 326/79, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BLEIKER, Roland, Aesthetics and World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 319/48, Manfred B. Steger
BLOOM, Laura, In the Mood, Viking, 319/63, Judith Loriente
BODE, Katherine and Robert Dixon (eds), Resourceful Reading: The New Empiricism, eResearch, and Australian Literary Culture, Sydney University Press, 320/51, John Byron
BOLTON, Ken, The Circus, Wakefield Press, 321/66, Michael Farrell
BOND, Sarah, Alison Carroll and Claire Watson, Every 23 Days: 20 Years Touring Asia, Asialink, 326/46, PeterHill
BOOTH, Alison, Stillwater Creek, Random House, 319/30, Ruth Starke
BOOTH, Christina, Potato Music, Omnibus Books, 326/80, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BOWE, Steph, Girl Saves Boy, Text, 327/72, Peta Murray
BOYD, Robin, The Australian Ugliness, Text, 322/12, Christopher Menz
BRADY, Catherine, Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA, MIT Press, 318/37, Ian Gibbins
BRAGGE, Lily, My Dirty Shiny Life, Viking, 323/20, Kate Holden
BRANCH, Taylor, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President, Simon & Schuster, 323/9, Morag Fraser
BRENNAN, Bernadette, Brian Castro’s Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language, Cambria Press, 319/27, David Callahan
BREWER, Susan A., Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq, OUP, 322/23, Anthony Burke
BRIDGSTOCK, Martin, Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal, CUP, 320/47, Tamas Pataki
BRISSENDEN, Alan and Keith Glennon, Australia Dances: Creating Australian Dance 1945–1965, Wakefield Press, 324/45, David Tissiman
BRITAIN, Ian (ed.), The Donald Friend Diaries: Chronicles & Confessions of an Australian Artist, Text, 326/24, Patrick McCaughey
BROOKS, David and Elizabeth McMahon (eds), Southerly, Vol. 69, No. 2: Southerly at Seventy, Brandl & Schlesinger, 319/38, Jeffrey Poacher
BROOKS, David and Elizabeth McMahon (eds), Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 1, Brandl & Schlesinger, 324/66, Simon West
BROOME, Richard and Dianne Kirkby, Australian Historical Studies, Volume 41, Issue 2, Taylor & Francis, 326/19, Lyndon Megarrity
BROPHY, Kevin, Patterns of Creativity: Investigations into the Sources and Methods of Creativity, Rodopi Press, 325/53, Jane Goodall
BROWN, Honey, The Good Daughter, Viking, 323/55, Laurie Steed
BRUCE, Candice, Dinah Dysart and Jo Holder (eds), A Singular Voice: Essays on Australian Art and Architecture by Joan Kerr, Power Publications, 319/40, Susan Steggall
BURKE, Janine, Source: Nature’s Healing Role in Art and Writing, Allen & Unwin, 318/27, Jane Goodall
BYRNE, Paula, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, HarperPress, 319/23, Glyn Davis
CAMERON, Anson, Stealing Picasso, Vintage, 319/33, Tim Howard
CAPP, Fiona, My Blood’s Country: In the Footsteps of Judith Wright, Allen & Unwin, 327/69, Felicity Plunkett
CARLTON, Mike, Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and her Crew, William Heinemann, 325/46, Geoffrey Blainey
CARMODY, Isobelle, The Red Wind, Viking, 324/71, Ruth Starke
CARROLL, Alison, The Revolutionary Century: Art in Asia 1900–2000, Macmillan Art Publishing, 326/46, Peter Hill
CASSIDY, Barrie, The Party Thieves: The Real Story of the 2010 Election, MUP, 327/12, Joel Deane
CATALANO, Gary, Fresh Linen, Picaro Press, 326/76, Julian Croft
CAWARD, Clinton, Love Machine, Hamish Hamilton, 320/17, Kate Holden
CHALLINGER, Michael, Anzacs in Arkhangel: The Untold Story of Australia and the Invasion of Russia 1918–19, Hardie Grant Books, 323/64, Jeffrey Grey
CHAMBERS, Jeremy, The Vintage and the Gleaning, Text, 324/60, Laurie Steed
CHANDLER, Ben, Quillblade: Voyages of the Flying Dragon, Book One, Random House, 325/71, Kate Eltham
CHAPMAN, Gaye, Little Blue, Little Hare, 319/59, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CHRISTOPHER, Emma, A Merciless Place:The Lost Story of Britain’s Convict Disaster in Africa and How it Led to the Settlement of Australia, Allen & Unwin, 324/19, Norman Etherington
CLUNE, David and Ken Turner (eds), The Governors of New South Wales 1788–2010, Federation Press, 319/52, Nicholas Brown
COHEN, Harvey G., Duke Ellington’s America, University of Chicago Press, 326/65, Michael Morley
COLE, Catherine (ed.), The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam, UWAP, 322/40, Thuy On
CONDON, Matthew, Brisbane, New South, 325/31, Mark Gomes
COSGROVE, Peter, Boyer Lectures: A Very Australian Conversation, ABC Books, 319/28, Patrick Allington
CRISPIN, Ken, The Quest for Justice, Scribe, 324/52, John Bryson
CROTTY, Martin and Marina Larsson (eds), Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 324/59, Alistair Thomson
CUMPSTON, Nici with Barry Patton, Desert Country, Art Gallery of SA, 326/43, Brenda L. Croft
CUNNINGHAM, Sophie (ed.), Meanjin Vol. 69, No. 1, MUP, 320/46, Jeffrey Poacher
CURTHOYS, Ann and Ann McGrath, How to Write History that People Want to Read, UNSW Press, 318/46, Stuart Macintyre
D’ALPUGET, Blanche, Hawke: The Prime Minister, MUP, 324/12, Bruce Grant
DACK, James and Stephen Dack (with Larry Writer), Sunshine and Shadow: A Brothers’ Story, Pier 9, 322/25, Stephen Mansfield
DADDO, Andrew and Bruce Whatley, Monster, ABC Books, 326/79, Stephanie Owen Reeder
DALE, John, Leaving Suzie Pye, Fourth Estate, 321/33, Don Anderson
DALE, Leigh (ed.), Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, Australian Literary Studies, 324/65, Adam Gall
DAMOUSI, Joy, Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840–1940, CUP, 327/34, Bruce Moore
DAVIDSON, Jim, A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W.K. Hancock, UNSW Press, 323/46, Deryck Schreuder
DAVIDSON, Leon, Zero Hour: The Anzacs on the Western Front, Text, 320/60, Mike Shuttleworth
DAVIS, Wes (ed.), An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, Harvard University Press, 322/42, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
DAY, Gregory, The Grand Hotel: A Novel, Vintage, 323/38, Cheryl Jorgensen
DAY, Sarah, Grass Notes, Brandl & Schlesinger, 320/58, Rose Lucas
DEANE, Joel, The Norseman’s Song, Hunter Publishers, 321/34, Chris Flynn
DELAHUNTY, Mary, Public Life, Private Grief: A Memoir of Political Life and Loss, Hardie Grant Books, 325/21, Corrie Perkin
DISHER, Garry, Wyatt, Text, 318/20, Don Anderson
DIVOLA, Barry, Nineteen Seventy-something, Affirm Press, 321/63, Carol Middleton
DREWE, Robert (ed.), The Best Australian Essays 2010, Black Inc., 327/44, Geordie Williamson
DUCROU, Daniel, The Byron Journals, Text, 322/61, Adam Gall
EAGLE, Chester, The Well in the Shadow: A Writer’s Journey Through Australian Literature, Transit Lounge, 324/62, Christina Hill
EAGLETON, Terry, On Evil, Yale University Press, 325/36, James Ley
EBERT, Roger, The Great Movies III, University of Chicago Press, 325/58, Jake Wilson
EDWARDS, Deborah, with Denise Mimmocchi, David Thomas and Anne Gérard, Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris, Art Gallery of NSW, 326/13, Jane Clark
EDWARDS, Hazel, Hooray! There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Having a Birthday Party, Penguin, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
EGAN, Colleen, Murderer No More: Andrew Mallard and the Epic Fight That Proved His Innocence, Allen & Unwin, 323/18, Richard Harding
ELIOT, Valerie and Hugh Haughton (eds), The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Volume 2: 1923–1925, Faber, 321/36, James Ley
ENGWERDA, Robert, Mosquito Creek, Viking, 322/35, Stephanie Green
ENNIS, Helen, Frank Hurley’s Antarctica, NLA, 326/36, Isobel Crombie
EVANS, Tess, Book of Lost Threads, Allen & Unwin, 323/62, Susan Gorgioski
EVERINGHAM, Sam, Madam Lash: Gretel Pinniger’s Scandalous Life of Sex, Art and Bondage, Allen & Unwin, 324/18, Jay Daniel Thompson
FALCONER, Delia (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2009, Black Inc., 318/18, Anthony Lynch
FALCONER, Delia, Sydney, New South, 326/62, Rhyll McMaster
FARRELL, Michael and Jill Jones (eds), Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets, Puncher & Wattmann, 320/45, Gregory Kratzmann
FENSHAM, Elizabeth, Bill Rules, UQP, 327/71, Ruth Starke
FENTON, Corinne and Sebastian Ciaffaglione, Flame Stands Waiting, Black Dog Books, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FITZGERALD, Ross, My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey, New South, 322/62, Richard Harding
FITZGERALD, Ross and Trevor L. Jordan, Under the Influence: A History of Alcohol in Australia, ABC Books, 322/62, Richard Harding
FITZPATRICK, Sheila, My Father’s Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood, MUP, 325/19, Brenda Niall
FORD, Lisa, Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836, Harvard University Press, 320/7, Henry Reynolds
FORSTER, Robert, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, Black Inc., 318/32, Jon Dale
FOSTER, Kevin, Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire, Pluto Press, 322/20, Norman Etherington
FOSTER, Sara, Come Back to Me, Random House, 319/63, Kirsten Law
FOX, Mem and Olivia Rawson, A Giraffe in the Bath, Penguin, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FRANKLIN, Bob, Under Stones, Affirm Press, 320/63, Christine Piper
FRANKLIN, James, What Science Knows: And How It Knows It, Encounter Books, 321/22, Robyn Williams
FRANZEN, Jonathan, Freedom, Fourth Estate, 327/26, James Ley
FRASER, Malcolm and Margaret Simons, Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, Miegunyah, 321/8, Neal Blewett
FRENCH, Jackie and Bruce Whatley, Baby Wombat’s Week, Angus & Robertson, 319/59, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FRENCH, Jackie and Bruce Whatley, Queen Victoria’s Underpants, Angus & Robertson, 326/79, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FREYTES, Silvio and Flavio Morais, In Just One Second, Wilkins Farago, 319/59, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FROST, Andrew, The Boys, Currency Press, 324/34, Mark Gomes
GAITA, Raimond (ed.), Gaza: Morality, Law & Politics, UWAP, 325/49, Peter Rodgers
GALASSI, Peter, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, Thames & Hudson and the Museum of Modern Art, 326/10, Helen Ennis
GALLAGHER, Katherine, Carnival Edge: New and Selected Poems, Arc Publications, 324/69, Susan Lever
GAMMAGE, Bill, The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, MUP, 321/60, Peter Pierce
GANDOLFO, Enza, Swimming, Vanark Press, 320/32, Carol Middleton
GARDNER, Angela, Views of the Hudson: A New York Book of Psalms, Shearsman Books, 319/56, Prithvi Varatharajan
GAYFORD, Martin, Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, Thames & Hudson, 326/21, Angus Trumble
GELDER, Ken and Rachael Weaver (eds), The Anthology of Colonial Australian Romance Fiction, MUP, 321/39, Susan Sheridan
GENTILL, Sulari, A Few Right Thinking Men, Pantera Press, 325/23, Laurie Steed
GERMEIN, Katrina and Tamsin Ainslie, Littledog, Scholastic, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
GIDDENS, Anthony, The Politics of Climate Change, Polity Press, 318/16, Anthony Elliott
GILES, Stephen, The Vulture of Sommerset, Pan Macmillan, 322/66, Ruth Starke
GLEESON, Brendan, Lifeboat Cities, UNSW Press, 324/54, Peter Mares
GLEESON, Libby and Freya Blackwood, Clancy & Millie and the Very Fine House, Little Hare, 319/59, Stephanie Owen Reeder
GLEITZMAN, Morris, Now, Viking, 322/65, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
GLENNON, Una, Ciara’s Gift: Grief Edged with Gold, UWAP, 323/18, Richard Harding
GOLDING, Peter, They Called Him Old Smoothie: John Joseph Cahill, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 319/50, Lyndon Megarrity
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, Gravel, Hamish Hamilton, 319/9, Murray Waldren
GORMLEY, Ken, The Death of American Virtue: Clinton Vs. Starr, Crown Publishers, 323/9, Morag Fraser
GOULD, Alan, The Lake Woman: A Romance, Arcadia, 318/9, Paul Hetherington
GOULD, Alan, Folk Tunes, Salt Publishing, 318/9, Paul Hetherington
GREEN, Jessica, Scratch Kitten and the Ghost Ship, Little Hare, 322/67, Ruth Starke
GREENAWAY, Lisa, Nathan Curnow and Ella Holcombe (eds), Going Down Swinging No.30, Going Down Swinging Inc., 325/60, James Langer
GREENBERG, Nicki, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Allen & Unwin, 327/70, Chris Flynn
GRENBY, M.O. and Andrea Immel, The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature, CUP, 323/56, Brenda Niall
GRIFFEN-FOLEY, Bridget, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, UNSW Press, 320/31, Brian McFarlane
GRIFFITHS, Andy and Terry Denton, The Very Bad Book, Pan Macmillan, 327/71, Ruth Starke
GROSSMAN, Edith, Why Translation Matters, Yale University Press, 323/28, Simon West
GRUNDY, Reg, Reg Grundy, Pier 9, 327/67, Jacqueline Kent
GUNDERSON, Erik (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, CUP, 318/49, Alastair Blanshard
GUTHRIE, Bruce, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, MUP, 327/16, Jan McGuinness
HAEBICH, Anna, Murdering Stepmothers: The Execution of Martha Rendell, UWAP, 322/32, Wendy Were
HAGÈGE, Claude (trans. Jody Gladding), On the Death and Life of Languages, Yale University Press, 320/49, Bruce Moore
HALL, Rodney, popeye never told you: childhood memories of the war, Pier 9, 321/20, Craig Munro
HAMILTON, Clive, Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change, Allen & Unwin, 321/57, Andrew Glikson
HANLEY, Penelope, Creative Lives: Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists, NLA, 321/43, Ian Morrison
HARTNETT, Sonya, The Boy and the Toy, Penguin, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HARTNETT, Sonya, The Midnight Zoo, Viking, 324/71, Ruth Starke
HARVEY, Jacqueline, Alice-Miranda at School, Random House, 322/66, Ruth Starke
HAY, Ashley, The Body in the Clouds, Allen & Unwin, 324/38, Don Anderson
HAY-MACKENZIE, John, Cautionary Tales for Boys and Girls, Pier 9, 319/59, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HAYSOM, Rob, Arnold Shore: Pioneer Modernist, Macmillan Art Publishing, 326/57, Felicity St John Moore
HAYTON, Jon and Leon Isackson, Behind the Rock and Beyond: The Diary of a Rock Band, 1956–1980, Sid Harta, 325/59, Jay Daniel Thompson
HEANEY, Seamus, Human Chain, Faber, 327/65, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
HEARN, Lian, Blossoms and Shadows, Hachette, 327/28, Alison Broinowski
HEFFERNAN, John, Where There’s Smoke, Omnibus Books, 322/65, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
HERRICK, Steven, Slice: Juicy Moments from my Impossible Life, Woolshed Press, 327/72, Mike Shuttleworth
HETHERINGTON, Penelope, Paupers, Poor Relief and Poor Houses in Western Australia, 1829–1910, UWAP, 321/56, Richard Harding
HILL, Maria, Diggers and Greeks: The Australian Campaigns in Greece and Crete, UNSW Press, 321/58, Peter Stanley
HILLS, Ben, Breaking News: The Golden Age of Graham Perkin, Scribe, 322/8, Michael Shmith
HIRST, John, Looking for Australia: Historical Essays, Black Inc., 324/15, Alan Frost
HOBBS, Leigh, Mr Badger and the Missing Ape, Allen & Unwin, 327/71, Ruth Starke
HOBBS, Leigh, Mr Badger and the Big Surprise, Allen & Unwin, 327/71, Ruth Starke
HOLDEN, Kate, The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days, Text, 326/39, Felicity Plunkett
HOLDEN, Steve, Somebody to Love, UQP, 327/67, Lorelei Vashti
HONEYWILL, Ross, Wasted: The True Story of Jim McNeil, Violent Criminal and Brilliant Playwright, Viking, 327/49, Murray Waldren
HOPKINS, Sarah, Speak to Me, Viking, 324/53, Estelle Tang
HOWARD, John, Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political Autobiography, HarperCollins, 327/10, John Hirst
HOWE, Renate (ed.), The Master: The Life and Work of Edward H. Sugden, Uniting Academic Press, 324/63, John Rickard
HRDY, Sarah Blaffer, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, Harvard University Press, 318/54, Michael Gilding
HUMPHREYS, Andrew, Martin Westley Takes a Walk, Vintage, 321/44, Susan Gorgioski
HYLAND, Adrian, Gunshot Road, Text, 322/26, Thuy On
IGGULDEN, Conn, Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children, HarperCollins, 320/50, Stephen Mansfield
INDYK, Ivor (ed.), Heat 21: Without a Paddle, Giramondo, 318/53, Jon Dale
INDYK, Ivor (ed.), Heat 22: The Persistent Rabbit, Giramondo, 323/31, Patrick Allington
IRVING, Terry and Rowan Cahill, Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits, and Unruly Episodes, UNSW Press, 323/63, Don Anderson
JACOBSON, Howard, The Finkler Question, Bloomsbury, 327/30, Don Anderson
JAMES, Ioan, Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton, CUP, 318/37, Ian Gibbins
JAMES, Rebecca, Beautiful Malice, Allen & Unwin, 323/71, Maya Linden
JAMES, Wendy, Where Have You Been?, UWAP, 319/29, Amy Baillieu
JEFFREY, Belinda, Big River Little Fish, UQP, 326/80, Thuy On
JENNINGS, Kate, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical / Selected Writings 1970–2010, Black Inc., 322/47, Gay Bilson
JOEL, Maggie, The Second-Last Woman in England, Pier 9, 320/18, Rhyll McMaster
JOHNSON, R.W., South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid, Allen Lane, 320/33, Jonty Driver
JOHNSON, Vivien, Once Upon a Time in Papunya, New South, 326/41, Ian McLean
JOHNSTON, Ian (trans.), Waiting for the Owl: Poems and Songs from Ancient China, Pardalote Press, 321/64, Barry Hill
JOLLY, Roslyn, Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire and the Author’s Profession, Ashgate, 318/40, Gillian Dooley
JONES, Jill, Dark Bright Doors, Wakefield Press, 322/64, Gig Ryan
JONES, John, Robert Dowling: Tasmanian Son of Empire, National Gallery of Australia, 323/51, David Hansen
JONES, Lloyd, Hand Me Down World, Text, 326/34, Jo Case
JORDAN, Toni, Fall Girl, Text, 327/70, Carol Middleton
KARSH, Efraim, Palestine Betrayed, Yale University Press, 325/49, Peter Rodgers
KILLENS, Sharyn and Lindsay Lewis, The Inconvenient Child, Miracle Publishing, 324/27, Kate Holden
KINSELLA, John, Post-Colonial: A Récit, soi 3 gold, 321/61, Stephen Muecke
KOCAN, Peter, The Fable of All Our Lives: A Novel, Fourth Estate, 325/13, Don Anderson
KOROMILAS, Kathryn, Palimpsest, Arcadia, 322/67, Susan Gorgioski
KRATZMANN, Gregory (ed.), Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe, Macmillan Art Publishing and the State Library of Victoria, 326/68, Stephanie Trigg
KRIEN, Anna, Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests, Black Inc., 326/55, Peter Mares
LAKE, Marilyn and Henry Reynolds (with Mark McKenna and Joy Damousi), What’s Wrong With Anzac: The Militarisation of Australian History, New South, 321/12, Robin Prior
LANGFORD, Martin, The Human Project: New & Selected Poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 318/57, Andrew Sant
LAWSON, Valerie, Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The True Story of Australian Writer P.L. Travers, Creator of the Quintessentially English Nanny, Hachette, 325/24, Lisa Gorton
LAZAROO, Simone, Sustenance, UWAP, 324/42, Thuy On
LEE, David, Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist, Continuum, 325/27, Peter Edwards
LEONARD, John (ed.), The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry, Puncher & Wattmann, 321/40, Paul Kane
LEYS, Simon, With Stendhal, Black Inc., 322/49, Colin Nettelbeck
LLEWELLYN, Kate, Poets and Perspectives: Kate Llewellyn, University of Woolongong Press, 324/70, Bronwyn Lea
LLOYD, Peter, Inside Story: From ABC Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988, Allen & Unwin, 325/22, Murray Waldren
LOHREY, Amanda, Reading Madame Bovary, Black Inc., 325/32, Judith Armstrong
LOUKAKIS, Angelo, Houdini’s Flight, Fourth Estate, 322/28, Patrick Allington
LOVING, Jerome, Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens, University of California Press, 322/18, Geordie Williamson
LOVRIC, Michelle, The Book of Human Skin, Allen & Unwin, 323/36, Melinda Harvey
LOWE, Ian, A Voice of Reason: Reflections on Australia, UQP, 324/56, Susan Currie
LOWING, Roberta, Notorious, Allen & Unwin, 325/34, Chris Womersley
LYNCH, Edward (ed. Will Davies), Somme Mud: Young Reader’s Edition, Random House, 320/60, Mike Shuttleworth
MacCALLUM, Mungo, Punch and Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Black Inc., 326/60, Joel Deane
MacDONALD, Helen, Possessing the Dead: The Artful Science of Anatomy, MUP, 323/58, Daniel Vuillermin
MACINTYRE, Stuart, The Poor Relation: A History of Social Sciences in Australia, MUP, 325/65, Frank Jackson
MACKELLAR, Maggie, When it Rains: A Memoir, Vintage, 326/70, Bernadette Brennan
MACKINNON, A.J., The Well at the World’s End, Black Inc., 324/30, Michael McGirr
McCARTHY, Maureen, Careful What You Wish For, Allen & Unwin, 327/71, Ruth Starke
McCULLOUGH, Colleen, Too Many Murders, HarperCollins, 318/21, Dianne Dempsey
McDERMOTT, Kirstyn, Madigan Mine, Picador, 327/70, Benjamin Chandler
McDONALD, Roger, When Colts Ran, Vintage, 326/35, Peter Pierce
McFARLANE, Brian and Deane Williams, Michael Winterbottom, Manchester University Press, 318/28, Jake Wilson
McGILCHRIST, Iain, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Yale University Press, 323/59, Ian Gibbins
McGREGOR, Fiona, Indelible Ink, Scribe, 322/29, Jo Case
McINTOSH, Fiona, Fields of Gold, Penguin, 320/62, Kate McFadyen
McINTYRE, Iain, How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Hoaxes, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making, Breakdown Press, 319/58, Dan Rule
McLAREN, Colin, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, Victory Books, 321/31, Adrian Mitchell
McMAHAN, Jeff, Killing in War, OUP, 319/46, Tony Coady
MAGAREY, Susan, Unbridling the Tongues of Women: A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence, University of Adelaide Press, 324/23, Helen Thomson
MAIDEN, Jennifer, Pirate Rain, Giramondo, 325/57, Jill Jones
MALOON, Terence (ed.), Paths to Abstraction 1867–1917, Art Gallery of NSW, 326/11, Daniel Thomas
MANGUEL, Alberto, A Reader on Reading, Yale University Press, 321/54, Andrea Goldsmith
MANNE, Robert and David McKnight (eds), Goodbye to All That?: On the Failure of Neo-Liberalism and the Urgency of Change, Black Inc., 322/58, Norman Abjorensen
MARCHETTA, Melina, The Piper’s Son, Viking, 321/67, Pam Macintyre
MARKUS, Andrew, James Jupp and Peter McDonald, Australia’s Immigration Revolution, Allen & Unwin, 318/33, Peter Mares
MARR, David, Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd (Quarterly Essay 38), Black Inc., 324/9, Neal Blewett
MARSH, Victor, Mr Isherwood Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood and the Search for the ‘Home Self’, Clouds of Magellan, 323/33, Sarah Kanowski
MAXWELL, Robyn, Life, Death and Magic: 2000 Years of Southeast Asian Ancestral Art, National Gallery of Australia, 326/54, Carol Cains
MEEHAN, Michael, Below the Styx: A Novel, Allen & Unwin, 319/18, Don Anderson
MEES, Paul, Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age, Earthscan, 324/54, Peter Mares
MEGALOGENIS, George, Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era (Quarterly Essay 40), Black Inc., 327/12, Joel Deane
Mengham, Rod (ed.), The Salt Companion to John Tranter, Salt Publishing, 325/55, Gig Ryan
MILLIKEN, Robert, Mother of Rock: The Lillian Roxon Story, Black Inc., 320/30, Mark Gomes
MOORE, Tony, Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788–1868, Pier 9, 324/17, Peter Stanley
MORGAN, Sally and Blaze Kwaymullina (eds), Westerly, Vol. 54, No. 2, Westerly Centre, 318/56, Patrick Allington
MORIARTY, Jaclyn, Dreaming of Amelia, Pan Macmillan, 318/59, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen
MORRISON, Sally, After Fire: A Biography of Clifton Pugh, Hardie Grant Books, 318/14, Brenda Niall
MORTON, Maris, A Darker Music, Scribe, 327/31, Carmel Bird
MULDOON, Rhys and Kevin Rudd, Jasper & Abby and the Great Australia Day Kerfuffle, Allen & Unwin, 319/59, Stephanie Owen Reeder
MULLANE, Mary-Ellen, Once on a Road, Vintage Books, 320/63, Susan Gorgioski
MUNKARA, Marie, Every Secret Thing, UQP, 320/15, Patrick Allington
MURRAY, Les, Taller When Prone, Black Inc., 320/12, David McCooey
MUSGRAVE, David, Glissando: A Melodrama, Sleepers, 322/33, Susan Lever
MUSGRAVE, David, Phantom Limb, John Leonard Press, 323/66, Andrew Sant
NACHMAN, Gerald, Right Here on our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan’s America, University of California Press, 318/30, Michael Shmith
NAPARSTEK, Ben, In Conversation: Encounters With 39 Great Writers, Scribe, 318/11, Patrick Allington
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA, Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route, National Museum of Australia, 326/43, Brenda L. Croft
NAYMAN, Shira, The Listener, Simon & Schuster, 319/32, Claudia Hyles
NELSON, Brian (ed.), Australian Journal of French Studies, Vol. XLVII, No. 2: Jacques Rivette, Monash University, 325/39, Colin Nettelbeck
NEVILLE, Richard and Paul Brunton, One Hundred: A Tribute to the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, 323/54, John Thompson
NGUYEN, Nathalie Huynh Chau, Memory is Another Country: Women of the Vietnamese Diaspora, Praeger, 318/48, Jill Jolliffe
NIX, Garth, The Keys to the Kingdom: Lord Sunday, Allen & Unwin, 322/67, Benjamin Chandler
NUSSBAUM, Martha C., Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Princeton University Press, 324/57, Stuart Macintyre
O’CONNOR, Michael, New Guinea Days, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 323/22, Peter Pierce
O’DRISCOLL, Dennis, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, Faber, 327/65, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
OLSEN, Penny, Upside Down World: Early European Impressions of Australia’s Curious Animals, NLA, 325/63, Peter Menkhorst
OPPY, Graham et al. (eds), A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Monash University Publishing, 327/59, Adrian Walsh
ORMEROD, Jan and Freya Blackwood, Maudie and Bear, Little Hare, 326/79, Stephanie Owen Reeder
ORR, Stephen, Time’s Long Ruin, Wakefield Press, 320/14, Gillian Dooley
OSBORNE, G.L., Come Inside, Clouds of Magellan, 320/63, Adam Rivett
OTTO, Kristin, Capital: Melbourne When it was the Capital City of Australia 1901–1907,Text, 318/12, John Rickard
OWEN, David, Shark: In Peril in the Sea, Allen & Unwin, 318/50, Kathleen Steele
PENDER, Anne, One Man Show: The Stages of Barry Humphries, ABC Books, 327/51, Ian Britain
PERKINS, Hetti, Art+Soul: A Journey Into the World of Aboriginal Art, Miegunyah, 327/55, Ian McLean
PETRESCU, Ioana, Transnational Literature, Volume 2, Issue 2, Flinders University, 324/65, Patrick Allington
PIERCE, Peter (ed.), The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, CUP, 318/7, Gregory Kratzmann
POTTS, John, A History of Charisma, Palgrave Macmillan, 320/53, Graeme Turner
PRETTY, Ron, Postcards from the Centre, Profile Poetry, 324/68, David McCooey
PRIOR, Ted, Grug and the Circus, Simon & Schuster, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
PRIOR, Ted, Grug Learns to Read, Simon & Schuster, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
PYNE, Stephen J., Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction, Harvard University Press, 318/46, Stuart Macintyre
READ, Peter, Tripping Over Feathers: Scenes in the Life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams, UWAP, 318/36, Sarah Kanowski
REECE-LANE, Lisa, Milk Fever, Pier 9, 322/60, Laurie Steed
REMNICK, David, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Picador, 325/29, Bruce Grant
RICHARDSON, Matthew, The West and the Map of the World: A Reappraisal of the Past, Miegunyah, 326/71, John Thompson
ROBINSON, Roland, The Hooded Lamp, Picaro Press, 326/76, Julian Croft
RODRIGUEZ, Béatrice, The Chicken Thief, Gecko Press, 319/59, Stephanie Owen Reeder
ROE, Jill (ed.), My Congenials: Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters, 325/14, Paul Brunton
ROSENBAUM, Jonathan, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition, University of Chicago Press, 327/57, Jake Wilson
ROSSITER, Richard, Arrhythmia: Stories of Desire, UWAP, 320/55, Patrick Allington
ROTH, Philip, Nemesis, Jonathan Cape, 326/38, Murray Waldren
RUDD, Jessica, Campaign Ruby, Text, 325/54, Amy Baillieu
RUSSELL, Lynette and John Arnold (eds), The La Trobe Journal, No. 85, State Library of Victoria, 325/70, Maria Nugent
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 28: Still the Lucky Country?,Text, 322/49, Jay Daniel Thompson
SCILLIO, Georgina, A Dandelion on the Roof and Other Stories, Clouds of Magellan, 318/31, Jay Daniel Thompson
SCOTT, Ann, Ernest Gowers: Plain Words and Forgotten Deeds, Palgrave Macmillan, 325/69, Graeme Powell
SCOTT, Kim, That Deadman Dance, Picador, 325/11, Patrick Allington
SCULLY, Richard and Marian Quartly (eds), Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence, Monash University ePress, 320/54, Robert Phiddian
SHACKLETON, Shirley, The Circle of Silence, Pier 9, 323/11, Jill Jolliffe
SHAPCOTT, Thomas, Parts of Us, UQP, 320/59, Martin Duwell
SHAPCOTT, Thomas, Gatherers and Hunters, Wakefield Press, 322/31, Don Anderson
SKRZYNECKI, Peter, Boys of Summer, Brandl & Schlesinger, 321/32, Gillian Dooley
SLATER, Michael, Charles Dickens, Yale University Press, 320/21, Grace Moore
SPARROW, Jeff (ed.), Overland 198, Overland, 321/13, Jay Daniel Thompson
SPARROW, Jeff (ed.), Overland 200, Overland, 326/ 78, Patrick Allington
SPONGBERG, Mary, Ann Curthoys and Barbara Caine (eds), Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, Palgrave Macmillan, 320/56, Judith Keene
SPRATT, R.A., Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion, Random House, 322/66, Ruth Starke
STEELE, Peter and Sean Burke (ed.), A Local Habitation: Poems and Homilies, Newman College, 326/74, Philip Harvey
STEGGALL, Stephany Evans, Bruce Dawe: Life Cycle, Ginninderra Press, 318/42, Tony Hassall
STEWART, Annette, Barbara Hanrahan: A Biography, Wakefield Press, 323/61, Craig Munro
STEWART, Kathleen, Men of Bad Character, UQP, 322/34, Gillian Dooley
STILLS, Caroline and Heath McKenzie, An ABC of Pirates, Little Hare, 323/69, Stephanie Owen Reeder
STINSON, Emmett, Known Unknowns, Affirm Press, 323/37, Chris Flynn
STUART, Nicholas, Rudd’s Way: November 2007–June 2010, Scribe, 324/9, Neal Blewett
SUTHERLAND, Kathie, Brett Whiteley: A Sensual Line 1957–67, Macmillan Art Publishing, 326/16, Vivien Gaston
TAIT, John, Vanda and Young: Inside Australia’s Hit Factory, New South, 325/59, Jay Daniel Thompson
TAKOLANDER, Maria, Ghostly Subjects, Salt Publishing, 318/58, Rose Lucas
TAYLOR, Ken, At Valentines: Poems 1966–1969, Picaro Press, 326/76, Julian Croft
TAYLOR, Lenore and David Uren, Shitstorm: Inside Labor’s Darkest Days, MUP, 324/9, Neal Blewett
THOMPSON, Gordon (ed.), Stamping Ground: Stories of the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne, Clouds of Magellan, 322/41, Jay Daniel Thompson
THOMPSON, John, Documents that Shaped Australia: Records of a Nation’s Heritage, Pier 9, 320/27, Peter Pierce
TIMMS, Peter, In Search of Hobart, New South, 318/35, Robert Gibson
TOMAN, Rolf and Thomas Paffen (eds), Ars Sacra: Christian Art and Architecture of the Western World From the Very Beginning up Until Today, h.f. Ullmann, 327/59, Christopher Menz
TRANTER, Kirsten, The Legacy, Fourth Estate, 318/22, Jo Case
TRANTER, John, Starlight: 150 Poems, UQP, 325/55, Gig Ryan
TUMARKIN, Maria, Otherland: A Journey with my Daughter, Vintage, 320/26, Judith Armstrong
VEITCH, Kate, Trust, Viking, 321/35, Amy Baillieu
VENDLER, Helen, Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, Princeton University Press, 323/31, Barry Hill
WALKER, Kathrine Sorley, Robert Helpmann: A Rare Sense of the Theatre, Dance Books, 319/15, Lee Christofis
WALTER, James (with Tod Moore), What Were They Thinking?: The Politics of Ideas in Australia, UNSW Press, 322/60, Nicholas Barry
WARD, Peter, Khai Liew, Wakefield Press, 326/42, Wendy Walker
WATTS, Frances, The Song of the Winns: The Gerander Trilogy, Book One, ABC Books, 327/71, Ruth Starke
WEIR, Winifred, Walking on Ashes, Puncher & Wattmann, 321/65, Prithvi Varatharajan
WELBERRY, Karen and Tanya Dalziell (eds), Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave, Ashgate, 319/54, Paul Genoni
WELSH, Thea, The President’s Wife, Fourth Estate, 319/31, Judith Armstrong
WHITE, Hugh, Power Shift: Australia’s Future Between Washington and Beijing (Quarterly Essay 39), Black Inc., 325/39, Alison Broinowski
WHITE, R.S., John Keats: A Literary Life, Palgrave Macmillan, 326/73, Peter Otto
WHITE, Shane, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson and Graham White, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars, Harvard University Press, 324/22, David Goodman
WILKINSON, Carole, Sugar Sugar, Black Dog Books, 323/70, Amy Baillieu
WILSON, Tony, Making News, Pier 9, 325/63, Ben Eltham
WIZISLA, Erdmut (trans. Christine Shuttleworth), Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship, Libris, 319/55, Michael Morley
WOMACK, Kenneth (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles, CUP, 322/45, Linda Kouvaras
WOMERSLEY, Chris, Bereft, Scribe, 324/39, Carmel Bird
WOODS, Vanessa, Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo, Black Inc., 324/31, Tony Wheeler
ZAGALA, Maria, A Beautiful Line: Italian Prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, Art Gallery of SA, 326/18, Justin Clemens
ŽIŽEK, Slavoj, In Defense of Lost Causes, Verso, 318/52, Rex Butler
ŽIŽEK, Slavoj, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, Verso, 318/52, Rex Butler
FEATURES INDEX 2010
ABR FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN NOVELS, 318/24
ABR POETRY PRIZE
FAHEY, Diane, ‘The Hummingbird Suite’, 320/36
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Domestic Emergencies’, 320/40
PATTINSON, Jillian, ‘Estuary’, 320/39
*SALOM, Philip, ‘Here Come the Missionaries’, 320/38
SANZ, Ynes, ‘Taken as Required’, 320/35
*Winner of the ABR Poetry Prize
ABR SHORT STORY COMPETITION
TAKOLANDER, Maria, ‘A Roānkin Philosophy of Poetry’, 327/46
AUDIO DISC REVIEWS
BRITISH LIBRARY, The, The Spoken Word: British Writers, BBC, 319/42, Brian McFarlane
CAREY, Peter, Parrot and Olivier in America, Bolinda Audio, 324/50, Brian McFarlane
DAVIES, Luke, Totem Poem (No. 15), 321/62, Lisa Gorton
FINE POETS, Volume 1: The Bush Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
FINE POETS, Volume 2: The Campfire Yarns of Henry Lawson, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
FINE POETS, Volume 3: The Sentimental Bloke, The Poems of C.J. Dennis, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
FINE POETS, Volume 4: The Battlefield Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
HEMENSLEY, Kris, My Life in Theatre (NO. 18), 321/63, Lisa Gorton
ST JOHN, Madeleine, The Women in Black, Bolinda Audio, 324/50, Brian McFarlane
TEMPLE, Peter, Truth, Bolinda Audio, 324/50, Brian McFarlane
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, The Domestic Sublime (NO. 17), 321/63, Lisa Gorton
ZWICKY, Fay, The Witnesses (NO. 19), 321/63, Lisa Gorton
BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 327/38
ALTMAN, Dennis, 327/38
ANDERSON, Don, 327/38
BIRD, Carmel, 327/38
BIRNS, Nicholas, 327/38
BROINOWSKI, Alison, 327/39
CASE, Jo, 327/39
DAVIS, Glyn, 327/39
DOOLEY, Gillian, 327/39
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 327/39
GORTON, Lisa, 327/40
HALL, Rodney, 327/40
HOLDEN, Kate, 327/40
KENT, Jacqueline, 327/41
LEY, James, 327/41
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 327/41
McFARLANE, Brian, 327/41
NIALL, Brenda, 327/42
PIERCE, Peter, 327/42
TRUMBLE, Angus, 327/42
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 327/42
BEST BOOKS: CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT
ON, Thuy, 327/43
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, 327/43
SHUTTLEWORTH, Mike, 327/43
STARKE, Ruth, 327/43
CALIBRE PRIZE
HALLAHAN, Lorna, ‘On Being Odd’, 321/24
HANSEN, David, ‘Seeing Truganini’, 321/45
COMMENTARY
ARMSTRONG, Judith, ‘A Curious Night at the Wheeler Centre’, 325/16
BIRNS, Nicholas, ‘Antipodes and the Dark Hemisphere: Beyond the Bilateral?’, 320/42
CAREY, Janene, ‘Retreat to the Castle’, 322/51
CRAVEN, Peter, ‘Baby Dante and the Apocalypse: Filming Cormac McCarthy’s The Road ’, 319/11
DAVIDSON, Jim, ‘Bouncing on the Trampoline of Fact: Biography and the Historical Imagination’, 323/42
DESSAIX, Robert, ‘“Letters to an Unknown Friend”’, 322/36
FRASER, Morag, ‘Maddened Times in the USA’, 327/14
GOODALL, Jane, ‘Phoneys and the Dash Man: The Hypnotic Voice of J.D. Salinger’, 319/34
HARRIS, Margaret and Elizabeth Webby, ‘Patrick White’s Papers’, 327/62
HENSON, Bill, ‘Millennial Slippage: Honouring the Paradox and the Majesty of Art’, 326/27
HERGENHAN, Laurie, ‘“Mindscapes of the Artist”: Visiting Randolph Stow, 323/25
HOLLIER, Nathan, ‘Alpha and Omega’, 325/62
KING, Natalie, ‘Carol Jerrems: “Love is the Key Word”’, 326/48
LEY, James, ‘Everything in Motion: Radical Inclusiveness in a New Literary History of the USA’, 319/19
McFARLANE, Brian, ‘Finding Ourselves in Australian Films’, 323/48
MENZ, Christopher, ‘Lightness and Clarity: A Welcome Extension to the National Gallery of Australia’, 326/7
OLUBAS, Brigitta, ‘“At Home in More than One place”: Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Shirley Hazzard’, 320/9
PEARLMAN, Jonathan, ‘Furore in Israel: Suspicion and Defensiveness after the “Freedom Flotilla”’, 323/14
RICKARD, John, ‘The Tyranny of Text?: Different Readings at the Melbourne International Arts Festival’, 327/53
ROSE, Peter, ‘“Elusive Colt of a Dark Horse”: The Peculiar Charms of E.M. Forster’, 327/18
SHERIDAN, Susan, ‘Tirra Lirra and Beyond: Jessica Anderson’s Truthful Fictions’, 324/47
STEELE, Peter, ‘Littoral Truth: Peter Porter (1929–2010)’, 322/15
EXTRACT
HALL, Rodney, popeye never told you: childhood memories of the war, Pier 9, 321/16
McFARLANE, Brian, Real and Reel, Sid Harta, 325/41
OPEN PAGE
BIRD, Carmel, 319/64
D’ALPUGET, Blanche, 324/72
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, 321/68
GORTON, Lisa, 323/72
HARTNETT, Sonya, 320/64
KENEALLY, Tom, 325/72
MUSGRAVE, David, 322/68
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, 318/68
POEMS
ANDREWS, Chris, ‘By Accident’, 318/41
BISHOP, Judith, ‘The Blind Minotaur’, 326/47
CHONG, Eileen, ‘After Pintauro’, 327/35
EAVES, Will, ‘100,000,000 AD’, 327/61
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘The Haunted Pane’, 324/61
FARRELL, Michael, ‘dream aboriginal family at buckingham palace’, 319/26
FEALY, Susan, ‘Flute of Milk’, 325/68
HILL, Barry, ‘Plum Juice’, 325/47
JAMES, Clive, ‘Silent Sky’, 323/53
KINSELLA, John, ‘Zoo Visits’, 318/23
McMASTER, Rhyll, ‘In the Inner West’, 319/62
PORTER, Peter, ‘What I Have Written I Have Written’, 322/17
ROSE, Peter, ‘The Marbles’, 324/46
RYAN, Tracy, ‘Cobwebs’, 321/15
SALOM, Philip, ‘Lamarckian Thoughts of the Father’, 322/43
SHAPCOTT, Thomas, ‘Storm over Port Phillip’, 319/36
TAKOLANDER, Maria, ‘No man’s land’, 320/48
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, ‘Mayhem’, 321/21
SHORT STORIES
WHITTING, Michael, ‘She Brings the Light In’, 319/43
Fiftieth anniversary prints
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W.H. Chong
In the Library (David Malouf)
2011 Melbourne
hand-coloured linocut 20.0 x 25.0 cm
edition of 20
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W.H. Chong
Kate Grenville
2011 Melbourne
two-colour linocut 20.0 x 25.0 cm
edition of 15
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W.H. Chong
‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’
(Julian Assange, WikiLeaks)
2011 Melbourne
linocut on Arches paper
25.0 x 20.0 cm (image), 38. 0 x 28.0 cm
(sheet)
edition of 25
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W.H. Chong
A fringe of leaves, Patrick White
2011 Melbourne
linocut on Arches paper, hand-coloured
25.0 x 20.0 cm (image), 38. 0 x 28.0 cm
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edition of 30
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W.H. Chong
Dorothy (Dorothy Hewett)
2011 Melbourne
copper plate etching
20.0 cm x 25.0 cm (plate)
edition of 20
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ABR Patrons' Fellowship
Patrick Allington was the recipient of the inaugural ABR Patrons’ Fellowship, worth $5000. His novel, Figurehead (Black Inc. 2009) was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. His short fiction and book criticism appears in Australian newspapers, magazines, and journals, including ABR.
The June 2011 issue of Australian Book Review includes Allington's major critique of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, ‘What is Australia Anyway?: The Glorious Limitations of the Miles Franklin Literary Award’. This long, nuanced article examines the controversy surrounding the Award’s dual terms: ‘awarded for the Novel of the year which is of the highest literary merit and which must present Australian Life in any of its phases.’
Allington spent several weeks reflecting on the Award's history, strengths, quirks, and past controversies. Drawing on extensive research, including interviews with key writers and judges involved in the Award’s fifty-four year history, Allington challenges notions of what makes a book sufficiently ‘Australian’ to fulfil the Award’s criteria, and discovers that the ‘line between ineligible and eligible is increasingly nebulous and subject to case-by-case examination’.
This provocative essay casts the nation’s most prestigious prize for novelists in a new light.‘To be a true believer in 2011, I believe, involves recognising how diverse Australian literature has become, but not in a way that avoids or simplifies the debate about what our best books are ...’
READ ‘What is Australia Anyway?: The Glorious Limitations of the Miles Franklin Literary Award’
Some of the writers interviewed
David Malouf, Brian Castro, Peter Carey, Delia Falconer, Nicholas Jose, and Christopher Koch.
Some of the novels examined
Christopher Koch’s The Year of Living Dangerously (1979), Frank Moorhouse’s Grand Days (1994), Elizabeth Jolley’s The Georges’ Wife (1994), Delia Falconer’s The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (2006), Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America (2010), Steven Amsterdam’sThings We Didn’t See Coming (2010), and Jon Bauer’s Rocks in the Belly (2011).
About the ABR Patrons' Fellowship
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