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In his Seymour Biography Lecture ‘Pushing against the Dark: Writing about the Hidden Self’, repeated at Adelaide Writers’ Week and soon to be published in ABR’s April issue, Robert Dessaix (struggling to appreciate the new genre) likens the intimacy of blog-writing to that of striptease.
Dessaix is right, of course, to observe that much blog-writing is artless and does not achieve, or warrant, the longevity that some diaries and memoirs achieve. However, just as elsewhere in his lecture Dessaix cites Virginia Woolf’s judgement of Lytton Strachey’s biography of Elizabeth I as a failure because he ‘treated biography as an art’, I would argue that artfulness should not be expected of blogs. The implications of the ease of publishing online, and of the galactic numbers of people doing so, go far beyond whether this kind of writing is ‘good’ in the old sense. The Internet has irrevocably changed what ‘writing’ is.
Thirty-five years ago, Susan Sontag wrote: ‘Photography has become almost as widely practised an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practised by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defence against anxiety, and a tool of power.’ Substitute ‘blogging’ for ‘photography’ and we get closer to an understanding of the function and meaning of a lot of online writing. Blogs, social media, and all the rest have given birth to a mise-en-scène kind of writing appreciable by readers in a permanent state of distraction. These new forms are antithetical to the traditional modes that depend on sustained concentration and that Dessaix prefers. But this is online writing’s strength – its ability to integrate with readers’ present, and to act, in the words of Glenn Gould, as ‘an uninvited guest at the banquet of the arts’.
Dessaix: ‘[I]t was as recently as 1963 that Marguerite Yourcenar said: “In our time the novel devours all forms; one is almost forced to use it as a medium of expression.” Not anymore, one isn’t.’ The pressure on everyone today, not just artists, is to be present online, to stay connected, never to drop from view. From the Editor’s Desk is in part a response to this pressure, but, to paraphrase Dessaix again, on the writing of his first book, A Mother’s Disgrace (1994), we realise that you are not waiting with baited breath for our revelations. We won’t be pushing back the dark on anything in this little corner of the online universe, not least on ABR staff’s hidden selves. Instead, we intend From the Editor’s Desk to provide a casual opportunity for you to stay in touch with the magazine in between issues. We’ll leave the truly artful writing, with aesthetic longevity, to Robert Dessaix in the April issue.
Mark Gomes
Deputy Editor
Australian Book Review
Harold Pinter in Adelaide
To Her Majesty’s for the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker. Pinter’s sixth play, it opened in April 1960 and ran forever (444 performances), his first commercial success, though by no means his first critical one (Harold Hobson had famously extolled the short-lived Birthday Party two years earlier.)
The gently raked stage, littered with junk and detritus (old suitcases, a lawn mower, a gas stove, a cheap plaster Buddha) is reminiscent of Steptoe and Son. From the skylight hangs a bucket for the artfully timed drips. Back we are in impoverished and clapped-out postwar East London. Pinter was living, or subsisting, in a similar boarding house while he wrote The Caretaker. And how quintessentially English the play feels, with its study of meanness, social alienation, and the sharp limits of hospitality. Next door live the ‘Indians’, taking over, spreading ‘blackness’ in the bathroom, on the banister. And who is most outraged by the immigrants but Davies, of course – the visitor, the mendicant, the petty thief, the ‘stinky’ outcast who comes to stay.
Ever nomadic in the theatre, I moved closer to the stage for the last two acts (much the better half). From the second row Jonathan Pryce’s vocal and physical artistry were palpable, especially in the searing final scenes as the incongruous trio battles it out for ownership of the leaky hovel – battles it out, too, for something more than that, for a kind of metaphysical stake. When Davies, threatened with ejection, listens to his fate, Pryce, standing there quivering, not saying a word, acts with every muscle, every nerve ending. Pryce, Welsh accent and all, has been performing the role of Davies – the tramp who comes to stay – in London, and it shows; his is a commanding performance.
Alan Cox – as Aston – the older brother, who rescues Davies, is blandly memorable – forever fiddling with the cord on the old toaster that will never be fixed, that will never warm (like the sole electric fire in the room, which is never switched on). In the great monologue that ends Act Two (the straightest, saddest thing in the play), Aston recalls being committed as a teenager because of his ‘hallucinations’ (‘I used to get the feeling I could see things … very clearly … everything … was so clear’), and describes the forced electric shock treatment that follows. This long, crucial scene is perfectly timed, perfectly judged – almost unbearable to watch. The lighting dims slowly, obscuring Davies on the opposite bed, but he remains faintly visible in the gloom, slowly lowering his head and sobbing noiselessly in recognition of Aston’s tale, possibly recalling his own experience of institutionalised terror and cruelty. Then – a little jarringly, without the usual break – the lights go up and these two pathetic men resume whatever is left of their depleted lives.
Alex Hassell plays Mick – the younger brother, the successful one, the vainglorious owner of ‘the van’. It’s a sinister performance, and so it should be. This is a play about menace, terror, pure and simple. Mick’s furtive second entrance, when he creeps up on Davies, is amazingly effective, producing the kind of frisson one normally only experiences at the opera. Hassell – young, wide-eyed, strongly built, good-looking in a kind of minatory way, the only healthy-looking one on stage – reminds us not of a young Alan Bates (who played Mick in New York and went on to film The Caretaker with his co-stars, Donald Pleasance and Robert Shaw), but of Bates’s great wrestling rival Women in Love – Oliver Reed. Hassell projects the same dangerousness, the same mercurial potential, swaggering round the stage, hands thrust into the pockets of his leather jacket. Even when he offers Davies a cheese sandwich from his pocket, he might be brandishing a pistol. And there is a brilliant riff when Mick dreams of renovating the slum, and imagines what he will do to every surface, every nook: ‘… I’d have teal-blue, copper and parchment linoleum squares. I’d have those colours re-echoed in the walls. I’d offset the kitchen units with charcoal-grey worktops …’ At which point I found myself strangely missing ABR’s old office in Richmond.
The language throughout is crisp, elliptical, masterly. Questions are taunts, feints, barks – rarely invitations. Kenneth Tynan – slower than Hobson to recognise Pinter’s genius – came round with The Caretaker: ‘Mr Pinter is a superb manipulator of language, which he sees not as a bridge that brings people together but as a barrier that keeps them apart.’
It is a long play (two and a half hours, with one interval), and a hugely demanding one for the three actors, but they perform it impeccably. Admirers of seriously good acting will not want to miss the Adelaide season of Pinter’s hilarious and deeply unconsoling masterpiece.
Peter Rose
Editor
Australian Book Review
Adelaide Writers' Week
To Adelaide for the last day of Writers’ Week, now an annual affair (ambitiously, some think) under the guidance of Laura Kroetsch (Director). Ms Kroetsch, an American, joins Adelaide from Wellington, where she ran the literary festival for many years. The removal of long-time director Rose Wight created some heat in certain quarters, but I didn’t share the forebodings about what Ms Kroetsch might do to Writers’ Week, now more than fifty years old, and still based in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden. Change was clearly overdue.
The weather was perfect, ideal for an outdoor literary jamboree. I liked the new configuration. Those cramped, airless, claustrophic white tents have been replaced by huge stylish blue shades, offering cover for most of the audience (though any unseasonable early-March rain will test this arrangement in future years). The sight-lines are much better, and there is now cross-ventilation. When there’s a westerly there are minor noise problems, but today was fine. The plastic seats, all linked by cords, seem uncomfortably close, but I heard of ingenious methods to achieve a little distance. ‘Would you like my scissors?’ ladies were overheard asking their neighbours.
Word has it that publishers stayed away en masse. There wasn’t a single party, a blow for the hedonists. But I suspect this is reparable.
While I waited for the midday session, I checked out the Imprints bookshop (further away from the stages this year, like the catering tent) and chatted to Peter Goldsworthy (Chair of the Advisory Committee). He told me about a rather mixed because acoustically challenged session on Tuesday night at the Adelaide Town Hall. Peter chaired a heavyweight line-up: Alan Hollinghurst, Dionne Brand, Caryl Phillips, and Les Murray. This year, pairs of signers appeared on stage during many of the sessions. On Tuesday night, someone moved one of the PA speakers to assist the signers. As a result half the audience couldn’t hear properly.
Crowds were substantial, and writers such as Barbara Santich and Fiona McGregor drew large, attentive audiences. I wondered what was delaying George Megalogenis at midday until I realised I’d forgotten to adjust my watch (I must be rusty). Megalogenis, one of the stars of ABC TV’s Insiders program, drew a capacity crowd. I was impressed by his crisp summaries of complex historical and political ideas. He was droll about the methodology in his new book, The Australian Moment, in which he invites the former prime ministers (Graham Freudenberg represents Gough Whitlam) to reflect on their successors’ greatest achievements, notwithstanding their political affiliations.
I lunched al fresco with Claudia Hyles at Cath Kerry’s reliably excellent Gallery Café. Claudia was in Jaipur recently during the recent festival. She writes about the Salman Rushdie brouhaha cum fiasco in our March issue (‘A Big Tamasha’).
Then I joined Robert Dessaix in the Green Room and we signed the necessary forms. Robert joked that they would get much more money for Jo Nesbo’s signature than they would for ours. Mr Nesbo, of whom I’d never heard, comes from Norway. His crime novels sell in the hundreds of thousands, Robert informed me. The festival program describes him as ‘among the very finest writers on the planet and certainly one of the most popular’.
Robert is always entertaining, even in a green room. He was amusing about one stellar guest from overseas who, in the lead-up to his own session, instructed his chairperson to go on stage ahead of him and generally ‘warm up the audience’ so that he could make an appropriately triumphant entrance – only to be informed that we don’t do things like that in Australia – well, not in Adelaide anyway. Things apparently became quite tense, but they went onstage together.
Laura Kroetsch joined us, pleased with the way her first festival had gone, and possibly glad it was almost over. Robert’s was the last session, but everyone had stayed for this repeat of the Seymour Biography Lecture, which he first delivered in Canberra in October 2011, soon after the heart attacks that nearly killed him in Sydney. A large crowd fanned around the raised platform. It was like a rock concert.
We met our two young female signers and wished them luck with the many foreign names sprinkled throughout Robert’s lecture. Robert wondered how they would cope with Gogol. When he mentioned Bobchinsky and Dobschinky (characters in Gogol’s The Government Inspector, who help to introduce some of the themes in Robert’s Lecture), the signers asked it they could shorten to ‘Bob’ and ‘Dob’.
Introducing Robert briefly, I spoke about ABR’s involvement with the Seymour Biography Lecture and told the crowd that they could read this one in our April 2012 issue.
The Lecture was even better this time – tighter, funnier. The audience loved it, and there was an impressive silence in the closing minutes, when Robert comes full circle and speaks of wanting to ‘push against the dark’ in his writings – ‘not just the dark that certain hidden selves were crouched in, but a more powerful dark, the dark that, as we grow older, we all feel stealing over us, blotting out inch by inch what we have loved and who we have been’. Slowly, quietly, clearly moved, he described the act of writing as ‘an act of resistance against the mortal condition – not mortality, but the mortal condition’.
The audience was stirred too, with many on their feet. I’ve only seen two standing ovations at literary gatherings, and both were for Robert. The first was twenty years ago, after a speech of his at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
After a long ovation, Laura Kroetsch briefly closed the festival and received flowers from a colleague. Robert went off to sign books, I chatted with UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White and former literary agent Frank Bryson, now based here (which I didn’t know) and doing a PhD at Adelaide University. Terri-ann and I took Robert to the old Hyatt (not its name now) and we sat in the bar where Roddy meets publisher Julia Collis early in my novel Roddy Parr, which opens in Adelaide. Julia, flirting with the handsome barman, tells him how to make a Whisky Sour. ‘Not too much eggwhite, handsome. We’re not making a pav.’ When I said much the same to our young barman, he proudly told me they don’t use eggwhite in Whisky Sours. Someone in management must have read the novel.
Robert, buoyed by the response, was in excellent form. He told us about Raoul’s extraordinary performance during the festival. He hadn’t realised that Raoul is Chaplin’s grandson. Raoul’s artistry reduced him to tears. At the end he stood and applauded like everyone else – something he never does, almost on principle, he told us. I recalled a concert in Amsterdam in 1992 – an amazing Shostakovich Fifth from the visiting St Petersburg Philharmonic, under Mariss Jansons – when Robert was the only person – the only person – in the entire Concertgebuow who was not on his feet.
Robert’s theatre-going is impressively catholic. In Melbourne recently he saw Mary Poppins. Next to him was a blind man with his guide dog. Robert said to the man that his was the first dog he’d even seen in a theatre. ‘Oh, he loves musicals,’ said the blind man.
Peter Rose
Editor
Australian Book Review
‘A self, a Me, whom I race against’: Alfred Kazin and Robert Dessaix
One of the things we try to do at ABR is to note each month a sample, however small, of some of the best publishing from overseas – especially works that are unlikely to be reviewed extensively, or at all, in this country (beyond the learned journals, if they bother with them). Many significant titles that pop up in TLS, Harper’s, LRB and NYRB go unreviewed in Australia – largely because stock is limited, and review copies hard to come by.
Fortunately, our friends at Inbooks in Sydney were prompt in sending us a copy of an outstanding 2011 publication from Yale University Press, many of whose quality publications we review in ABR. The book is Alfred Kazin’s Journals, selected and edited by Richard M. Cook, who happens to be Kazin’s biographer (2007). I was delighted when Sydney critic Don Anderson – a long-time contributor – agreed to review both books. We’re setting it now, for the April issue.
Kazin, who lived from 1915 to 1998, is hardly a household name, but he was (almost) in America in the 1950s and 1960s – one of the most influential critics and ‘public intellectuals’. Perhaps the Journals, in particular, will revive his posthumous fortunes and steer readers towards other books by Kazin, notably his memoir A Walker in the City (1951), which Don Anderson rightly commends in his article.
The Journals are funny, and often epigrammatic. Try this zinger about that other sage-diarist, Edmund Wilson: ‘EW thinks he is writing history whenever he sits down to his diary.’ Kazin is consistently illuminating about the American moderns (Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, etc.), and deeply acute about American literary ‘exceptionalism’. See a long series of apophthegms from 15 September 1952, culminating in ‘America – an earthly paradise projected out of the heart of man, and not within it, and so doomed always to magnetize, to be compared, and to disappoint.’
Kazin, a few weeks later, is withering about his own literary pretensions:
What a monster it is, then, this being not a writer, a thought-bearer, but a WRITER, quoted on the jackets of the latest books, much sought-after by summer workshops, an object of mystery, a perpetual mode of unbelief to the vulgar – “and do you write under your own name?” as if most of us wrote for any purpose other than publicising your own name! (6 October 1952).
But how many copies of Alfred Kazin’s Journals will end up on Australian bookshelves? A hundred? Fifty? In your dreams, probably. Which would be a shame, for they strike me as being among the best journals of the second half of the twentieth century – sharp, luminous, candid, questioning – a necessary book (that rare category).
Late last year, after hearing Robert Dessaix’s remarkable Seymour Biography Lecture at the National Library, I was struck by this beautiful, apropos passage from Kazin’s journal of 16 February 1964:
There is a self, a Me, whom I race against. A Me whose identity is given only by Others – childhood influences, contemporary fashions, the setting of the family, of the job, etc. This Me still gives itself marks, still counts progress by going from test to test ... And meanwhile I, the rational and contemplative and self-fortifying I, sees things that don’t appear in the test. This I wants a breakthrough; this authentic self wants to be free of the self that can only race, succeed or fail. Isn’t this really why I want to write this book, to let the ‘real’ self come through at last? The thinking, free self whose best insights are so often an astonishment?
Tomorrow I’m off to Adelaide Writers’ Week to introduce Robert Dessaix, who will repeat his Seymour Lecture, which is entitled ‘Pushing against the Dark; Writing about the Hidden Self’, and which we will publish in our April issue (I’ve been editing it today – all 7000 words of it – always a pleasure with Dessaix). Now Adelaide will have a chance to enjoy (and be moved by) this funny, pointed, and surprisingly candid account of one man’s oscillations between memoir and fiction, and his deeper, far from comfortable reasons for writing in the first place.
Roll up in astonishment, to paraphrase Kenneth Tynan on Marlene Dietrich’s New York début.
Announcing the Peter Porter Poetry Prize shortlist
Each year we honour the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010) through our poetry competition – and in the process generate much new poetry. This year we received almost 800 poems in the highly alliterative Peter Porter Poetry Prize. This is almost twice the number we received last year – a measure of the growing popularity of the Porter Prize and, one suspects, of the recent and most welcome return of poetry to the spotlight, through major anthologies, websites, residencies, and specific professorships.
Not all of the entries were specifically written for the Porter Prize, but most of them were. ABR is proud of its role in fostering so much new poetry, and committed to its broader coverage of Australian poetry through cogent reviews, occasional essays, and the inclusion of several new poems each month. Apropos which, we welcome submissions from poets, whether new or established.
Our judges this year are Judith Beveridge and David McCooey, both of whom have long reviewed for and contributed poems to the magazine. David and Judith have shortlisted five poems, all of which appear in our March issue. The shortlisted poets are Anne Elvey, Michael Farrell, Toby Finch, Gareth Robinson, Gareth Robinson, and Annamaria Weldon.
Toby Fitch’s long and wonderfully dry typographical poem ‘Oscillations’ posed some challenges when we designed the March issue. I hope you like the way we’ve presented it.
We look forward to naming the winner in the April issue. He or she will receive $4000. And rest assured, the Porter Prize will be on again later this year.
Peter Rose
Editor
Australian Book Review
Advice for new reviewers
From time to time I’m asked what I look for in our reviewers – apart from wit, fleetness, and excellent grammar, that is. Well might a prospective reviewer ask, because the craft of reviewing is not one that is often discussed, or taught, or analysed. You’re on your own: a one-person, low-income cottage industry, a hostage to your telephone and computer, as I have written elsewhere.
To introduce this new feature on our website – which will include regular posts from all of the ABR editors (we happy few) – we thought it might be helpful to revise our earlier list of things we look for in new reviewers.
ABR is serious about introducing bright new critics to our readers. Our commitment to publishing about 250 writers each year in our ten issues is unwavering. We think of our relations with our contributors as creative partnerships.
We hope the informal desideratum below will encourage newcomers to think about writing for ABR or for the host of quality periodicals we have in this country.
Advice for new reviewers
- familiarise yourself with the magazine/newspaper and its tenor and house style
- be sure that you really want to write for a particular magazine; that it suits your own style and aesthetics (there are plenty of other ones around)
- most editors welcome polite requests to review particular books; but don’t expect immediate replies and don’t be downcast if they say no
- when you are starting out, don’t expect to be offered the new Garner or Carey, or the latest biography of Tolstoy; bide your time
- when an editor offers you a book (usually by email), reply to her promptly
- don’t feel obliged to accept every book that’s offered to you: be sure that the book is right for you, and that the commission is practicable
- magazines such as ABR usually give reviewers at least three weeks with a book, but sometimes they need reviews of certain works (e.g. major and/or embargoed books) within a week or less; newspapers tend to work with shorter time frames
- be realistic before agreeing to review something by next Tuesday; does it suit you? Is it feasible?
- editors appreciate candour; it won’t harm your chances if you decline a book now and then (though don’t knock back six books in a row)
- if you feel uneasy about reviewing a particular author, for whatever reason (love, hate, indifference, total unfamiliarity, etc.), ask for something else
- decline books by authors with large oeuvres with which you are totally unacquainted
- if you do accept a book by an author you haven’t read, acquaint yourself with other works by that author
- reviews of major authors that fail to cite any of their earlier works are often inadequate and unpersuasive
- don’t hesitate to enlist literary references, allusions, and aphorisms to enliven your argument
- read the book closely, and read it more than once; it shows if you haven’t
- heed the brief and the agreed length and deadline
- give prompt notice of any likely delay
- bring individuality and stylishness to the review
- lateness and infelicitous prose are guaranteed to shorten your career as a reviewer
- editors relish wit and irony – though not the comedy festival kind
- avoid the perpendicular pronoun; a review is not autobiography
- demonstrate literary competence, good grammar, and confidence with the subject matter
- if you really like – or dislike – a book, say so, and say why; don’t be coy or overly circumspect
- show due but not limitless respect for established authors
- syntax is a wonderful resource, infinitely supple; employ it artfully
- we don’t all have to write the same way
- watch those adverbs, superlatives, and exclamation marks
- if a sentence is making you seasick with its undulations, shorten it
- before submitting your review, read it aloud to yourself or someone whose judgement you trust; it’s amazing what you will pick up
- if you submit timely, literate, well-proofed manuscripts, you’ll be amazed by how much work comes your way
- remember, most magazines and newspapers have limited editorial resources and editors don’t have time for two-hour edits
- demonstrate a sense of an ‘organic’ review, i.e. one emerging from careful appraisal, rather than from preconceptions or publicity material
- write reviews that are small works of art, not just consumer tools
- with major books, ones that have been reviewed extensively in the newspapers, submit reviews that add to our understanding of the book – not just repetitious codas to or echoes of earlier reviews
- with fiction, don’t rely on plot descriptions and never give away the dénouement
- everyone needs to be edited, even editors; respect their craft, their experience
- that said, if you disagree with changes or corrections, say so
- no hissy fits!
Peter Rose
Editor
Australian Book Review
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Index for 2011: Nos 328-337
REVIEWS INDEX 2011
ABDEL-FATTAH, Randa, Noah’s Law, Pan Macmillan, 328/67, Stephen Mansfield
ACKERMAN, Bruce, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, Harvard University Press, 332/65, Alison Broinowski
ADAIR, Robin, The Ghost of Waterloo, Michael Joseph, 330/24, Kate McFadyen
ADAMSON, Robert (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2010, Black Inc., 328/28, Philip Mead
AITKEN, Graeme, The Indignities, Clouds of Magellan, 331/34, Jay Daniel Thompson
AITKEN, Richard, The Garden of Ideas: Four Centuries of Australian Style, Miegunyah, 329/59, Luke Morgan
ALI, Tariq, The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad, Verso, 335/65, Dennis Altman
ALIZADEH, Ali, Ashes in the Air, UQP, 330/60, Gig Ryan
ALSAYYAD, Nezar, Cairo: Histories of a City, Harvard University Press, 333/62, Grazia Gunn
ALTMAN, Jon and Melinda Hinkson (eds), Culture Crisis: Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia, UNSW Press, 328/62, David Trigger
AMSTERDAM, Steven, What the Family Needed, Sleepers, 336/52, Nic Low
ANDERSON, Fay and Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, MUP, 332/68, Jill Jolliffe
ARMSTRONG, Judith, War & Peace and Sonya, Pier 9, 337/36, Carol Middleton
ARNOLD, John (ed.), La Trobe Journal, No. 87, State Library of Victoria Foundation, 335/64, Jay Daniel Thompson
ASHTON, Paul and Paula Hamilton, History at the Crossroads: Australians and the Past, Halstead Press, 334/19, Clare Corbould
AU, Jessica, Cargo, Picador, 336/68, Romy Ash
AUSTIN-BROOS, Diane, A Different Inequity: The Politics of Debate about Remote Aboriginal Australia, Allen & Unwin, 336/15, Emma Kowal
BAILEY, John, Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt, Macmillan, 336/59, Darrell Lewis
BASE, Graeme, The Jewel Fish of Karnak, Viking, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BASSETT, Sue (ed.), The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award 1984–2008: Celebrating 25 Years, Charles Darwin University Press, 332/75, John Kean
BATEMAN, Anthony and Jeffrey Hill (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Cricket, CUP, 334/52, Bernard Whimpress
BATTERSBY, Katherine, Squish Rabbit, UQP, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BARRY, Max, Machine Man, Scribe, 335/49, Shaun Prescott
BARRY, Peter, I Hate Martin Amis Et Al., Transit Lounge Publishing, 332/60, Kate Holden
BELL, John, On Shakespeare, Allen & Unwin, 335/69, Brian McFarlane
BELL, Robert, Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume, National Gallery of Australia, 329/13, Alan R. Dodge
BENNETT, Scott, Pozières: The Anzac Story, Scribe, 331/55, Robin Prior
BESTON, John, Patrick White within the Western Literary Tradition, Sydney University Press, 330/10, Charles Lock
BILSON, Tony, Fine Family Cooking: Australia’s Original Master Chef, Murdoch Books, 330/45, Christopher Menz
BIRCH, Tony, Blood, UQP, 337/33, Chris Flynn
BLACK, Prudence, The Flight Attendant’s Shoe, New South, 337/63, Susan Sheridan
BLACKADDER, Jesse, The Raven’s Heart, Fourth Estate, 329/26, Emma Ashmere
BLAIN, Georgia, Darkwater, Random House, 330/62, Maya Linden
BLAIN, Georgia, Too Close to Home, Vintage, 331/29, Melinda Harvey
BLAKE, Barry J., Secret Language, OUP, 329/39, Bruce Moore
BLAND, Nick, The Runaway Hug, Scholastic, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BLUM, Susan D. (ed.), My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture, Cornell University Press, 330/17, Timothy Roberts
BONETT, Warren, The Australian Book of Atheism, Scribe, 329/61, Timothy Roberts
BONYHADY, Tim, Good Living Street: The Fortunes of my Viennese Family, Allen & Unwin, 332/18, Evelyn Juers
BOOKER, Christopher, The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with ‘Climate Change’ Turning Out to be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History?, Continuum, 329/18, Timothy Roberts
BOWKER, Gordon, James Joyce: A Biography, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 334/32, James Ley
BOYCE, James, 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, Black Inc., 333/14, John Rickard
BRADLEY, James (ed.), The Penguin Book of the Ocean, Penguin, 328/27, Gregory Kratzmann
BRASCH, Nicholas, The Heroes of the Kokoda Track, Black Dog Books, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
BROCKOPP, Jonathan E. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad, CUP, 329/56, Irfan Ahmad
BROOKS, Geraldine, Caleb’s Crossing, Fourth Estate, 332/55, Sophie Cunningham
BROWN, A.J., Michael Kirby: Paradoxes, Principles, Federation Press, 335/63, Julian Burnside
BURKE, Carolyn, No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf, Bloomsbury, 334/42, Colin Nettelbeck
BURKE, J.C., Pig Boy, Random House, 333/71, Bec Kavanagh
BURNS, joanne, Amphora, Giramondo, 334/65, Rose Lucas
BURTON, Pamela, From Moree to Mabo: The Mary Gaudron Story, UWAP, 330/37, John Bryson
BUZO, Laura, Good Oil, Allen & Unwin, 328/48, Pam Macintyre
CALLOWAY, Stephen and Lynn Federle Orr (eds), The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860–1900, V&A Publishing, 336/49, Alison Inglis
CARMODY, Isobelle and Nan McNab (eds), The Wilful Eye: Tales from the Tower, Volume I, Allen & Unwin, 331/63, Benjamin Chandler
CARROLL, Steven, Spirit of Progress, Fourth Estate, 334/25, Patrick Allington
CARTER, Alan, Prime Cut, Freemantle Press, 330/53, Jay Daniel Thompson
CASERIO, Robert L. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel, CUP, 330/55, Sarah Kanowski
CHANDLER, Jo, Feeling the Heat, MUP, 333/11, Rosaleen Love
CHANIN, Eileen, Book Life: The Life and Times of David Scott Mitchell, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 333/16, Paul Brunton
CHARALAMBOUS, John, Two Greeks, UQP, 335/54, Donata Carrazza
CHATAWAY, Carol, You Are My Special Baby, Working Title Press, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CHURCHER, Betty, Notebooks, Miegunyah, 332/77, Alan Dodge
CLARK, Sherryl, Meet Rose, Puffin, 333/70, Ruth Starke
CLEMENT, Rod, Feathers for Phoebe, HarperCollins, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CLIFFORD-SMITH, Silas, Percy Lindsay: Artist & Bohemian, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 332/38, Christopher Menz
COLLER, Ian, Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798–1831, University of California Press, 330/14, Robert Aldrich
CORBETT, Claire, When We Have Wings, Allen & Unwin, 333/11, Jay Daniel Thompson
CORNWELL, John, Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint, Continuum, 328/45, Glyn Davis
COUSINS, A.D. and Peter Howarth, The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet, CUP, 334/60, William Christie
COX, David, The Road to Goonong, Allen & Unwin, 337/74, Joy Lawn
CROALL, Jonathan, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star, Methuen Drama, 336/55, Brian McFarlane
CROMBIE, Isobel and Judith Ryan (eds), Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 50th Edition, The Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, 334/48, Jane Clark
CURRAN, James, Curtin’s Empire, CUP, 330/16, Stuart Macintyre
CURRIE, Christopher, The Ottoman Motel, Text, 331/23, Laurie Steed
CURTIN, Amanda, Inherited, UWAP, 337/36, Francesca Sasnaitis
DALY, Cathleen and Stephen Michael King, Prudence Wants a Pet, Scholastic, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
DANDO-COLLINS, Stephen, Crack Hardy: From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, The True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War, Vintage, 331/61, Stephen Mansfield
DAVID, Elizabeth, At Elizabeth’s Table: Her Very Best Everyday Recipes, Michael Joseph, 330/45, Christopher Menz
DAVIDSON, Toby (ed.), Collected Poems: Francis Webb, UWAP, 331/17, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
DAWE, Bruce, Slo-Mo Tsunami and Other Poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 337/70, Martin Duwell
DEVRIES, Shane, Never Smile at a Crocodile, Scholastic, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
DE WAAL, Edmund, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance, Vintage, 332/73, Angus Trumble
DO, Anh and Suzanne Do, The Little Refugee, Allen & Unwin, 337/74, Joy Lawn
DRAZIN, Charles, The Faber Book of French Cinema, Faber, 334/38, Sally Burton
DUFFY, Michael, The Simple Death, Allen & Unwin, 329/25, Don Anderson
DUBOSARSKY, Ursula, The Carousel, Viking, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
DUBOSARSKY, Ursula, The Golden Day, Allen & Unwin, 331/46, Thuy On
DYRENFURTH, Nick, Heroes & Villains: The Rise and Fall of the Early Australian Labor Party, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 334/16, Stuart Macintyre
DYRENFURTH, Nick and Frank Bongiorno, A Little History of the Australian Labor Party, New South, 334/16, Stuart Macintyre
EARLS, Nick, The Fix, Vintage, 334/50, Jeffrey Poacher
EDGERTON, Gary R. (ed.), Mad Men; Dream Come True TV, I.B. Tauris, 330/42, Lesley Chow
ELLIS, David (ed.), Into the Light: 150 Years of Cultural Treasures at the University of Sydney, Miegunyah, 329/62, John Thompson
ENNIS, Helen, Wolfgang Sievers, NLA, 334/44, Julian Burnside
EYRE, Richard, Talking Theatre: Interviews with Theatre People, Nick Hern Books, 328/58, Michael Morley
FAHEY, Diane, The Wing Collection: New and Selected Poems, Puncher & Wattmann, 337/69, Rose Lucas
FARRER, Vashti, Lilli-Pilli: The Frog Princess, Scholastic, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FINN, S.J., This Too Shall Pass, Sleepers Publishing, 329/28, Anthony Lynch
FITZGERALD, Ross and Stephen Holt, Alan ‘The Red Fox’ Reid: Pressman Par Excellence, New South, 328/20, Tom D.C. Roberts
FITZSIMONS, Trish, Pat Laughren, and Dugald Williamson, Australian Documentary: History, Practices, Genres, CUP, 331/50, Ina Bertrand
FLANNERY, Tim, Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope, Text, 328/66, Timothy Roberts
FLOOD, Philip, Dancing with Warriors, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 337/65, Richard Broinowski
FORBES, Cameron, The Korean War: Australia in the Giant’s Playground, Macmillan, 330/57, Richard Broinowski
FORD, Andrew, The Sound of Pictures: Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity, Black Inc., 328/24, Robert Gibson
FORSYTHE, David P., The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners After 9/11, CUP, 336/13, Alison Broinowski
FOX, Mem and Roland Harvey, The Little Dragon, Viking, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FRATER, Benjamin, 6 am in the Universe: Selected Poems, Grand Parade Poets, 336/64, Francesca Sasnaitis
FREE, Renee and John Henshaw (with Frank Hinder), The Art of Frank Hinder, Phillip Mathews, 336/48, Ann Stephen
FREEMAN, Pamela, Lollylegs, Walker Books, 333/70, Ruth Starke
FRENCH, Jackie, A Waltz For Matilda, HarperCollins, 328/37, Gillian Dooley
FRENCH, Jackie, Booms, Busts and Bushfires, Scholastic, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
FRENCH, Jackie and Bruce Whatley, Flood, Scholastic, 337/74, Joy Lawn
FROST, Alan, Botany Bay: The Real Story, Black Inc., 330/12, Norman Etherington
FUNDER, Anna, All That I Am, Hamish Hamilton, 335/11, Jo Case
GAILE, Andreas, Rewriting History: Peter Carey’s Fictional Biography of Australia, Rodopi, 331/53, Joseph Wiesenfarth
GAITA, Raimond, After Romulus, Text, 335/23, Paul Morgan
GAMMAGE, Bill, The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia, Allen & Unwin, 336/23, Geoffrey Blainey
GARDNER, Scot, The Dead I Know, Allen & Unwin, 334/66, Stephen Mansfield
GARNAUT, Ross, The Garnaut Review 2011: Australia in the Global Response to Climate Change, CUP, 336/21, David Karoly
GASTON, Vivien, The Naked Face: Self-Portraits, National Gallery of Victoria, 328/50, Sheridan Palmer
GELBER, Katharine, Speech Matters: Getting Free Speech Right, UQP, 330/33, Terry Lane
GENTILL, S.D., Chasing Odysseus, Pantera Press, 330/58, Ben Chandler
GESSA-LIVERIADIS, Anastasia, The Lace Tablecloth, Sid Harta, 333/51, Carol Middleton
GILLESPIE, Michelle, Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck, Freemantle Press, 337/74, Joy Lawn
GLEESON, Libby, I Am Thomas, Allen & Unwin, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
GLOVER, Dennis, The Art of Great Speeches and Why We Remember Them, CUP, 329/20, Joel Deane
GODDARD, Angela (ed.), Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, 332/38, Anna Gray
GODWIN, Jane, All Through the Year, Viking, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
GOLDBLOOM, Goldie, You Lose These + Other Stories, Fremantle Press, 332/42, Chris Flynn
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, Adelaide, New South, 335/35, Gay Bilson
GORDON, Kate, Thyla, Random House, 332/79, Margot McGovern
GRAFTON, Anthony, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, The Classical Tradition, Harvard University Press, 329/37, Christopher Allen
GRANEY, Dave, 1001 Australian Nights, Affirm Press, 330/44, Mark Gomes
GRANT, Jamie (ed.), 100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss, 331/35, David McCooey
GRAY, Anne, Face: Australian Portraits 1880-1960, National Gallery of Australia, 328/50, Sheridan Palmer
GREEN, Jonathon, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Chambers, 333/63, Bruce Moore
GREENBERG, Nicki, Monkey Red Monkey Blue, Allen & Unwin, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
GREENBLATT, Stephen, Shakespeare’s Freedom, UCP, 328/16, R.S. White
GRENVILLE, Kate, Sarah Thornhill, Text, 335/12, Sophie Cunningham
GRIFFITHS, Andy, What Body Part Is That?, PanMacmillan, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
GROSS, Jan, Jam Dreaming, Sid Harta Publishers, 334/44, Joy Lawn
GRUNDY, Alice et al. (eds), I Can See My House From Here: UTS Writers’ Anthology 2010, Brandl & Schlesinger, 328/55, Alex Lewis
HAIGH, Gideon, Out of the Running: The 2010–11 Ashes Series, Viking, 330/54, Bernard Whimpress
HALL, Leanne, This is Shyness, Text, 330/62, Maya Linden
HALL, Rodney, Silence, Pier 9, 336/12, James Ley
HALL, Susan, Incy Wincy Spider, NLA, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
HALLIDAY, Paul D., Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire, Harvard University Press, 330/34, Michael Kirby
HALLIGAN, Marion, Shooting the Fox, Allen & Unwin, 332/57, Judith Armstrong
HARLAND, Richard, Liberator, Allen & Unwin, 334/67, Benjamin Chandler
HARRIS, Alexandra, Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper, Thames & Hudson, 332/16, Frances Spalding
HARRISON, Jennifer, Colombine: New & Selected Poems, Black Pepper, 328/56, Martin Duwell
HART, Deborah, Fred Williams: Infinite Horizons, NGA, 335/37, Mary Eagle
HARTCHER, Peter, The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made its Own Luck – And Could Now Throw it All Away, Black Inc., 337/10, Joel Deane
HARTNETT, Sonya, Come Down, Cat!, Viking, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HARVEY, Roland, All the Way to W.A., Allen & Unwin, 337/74, Joy Lawn
HASKELL, Dennis, Acts of Defiance: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishing, 330/59, Martin Duwell
HAWKE, Rosanne, Taj and the Great Camel Trek, UQP, 334/67, Pam Macintyre
HEATH, Sally (ed.), Meanjin Vol. 70, No. 3, MUP, 335/35, Dean Biron
HENDERSON, Anne, Joseph Lyons: The People’s Prime Minister, New South, 337/15, David Day
HENDERSON, Heather (ed.), Letters to My Daughter: Robert Menzies, Letters, 1955–1975, Pier 9, 335/33, Sue Ebury
HEISS, Anita, Paris Dreaming, Bantam, 330/38, Amy Baillieu
HILL, Barry and John Wolseley, Lines for Birds: Poems and Paintings, UWAP, 332/46, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
HITCHINGS, Henry, The Language Wars: A History of Proper English, Holder & Stoughton, 336/60, Bruce Moore
HODGMAN, Helen, Blue Skies, Text, 330/23, Brenda Niall
HODGMAN, Helen, Jack and Jill, 335/47, Mark Gomes
HOLBROOK, Peter, Shakespeare’s Individualism, CUP, 328/16, R. S. White
HOLDEN, Raymond, Richard Strauss: A Musical Life, Yale University Press, 333/49, Michael Morley
HOLDSWORTH, Elisabeth, Those Who Come After, Picador, 330/18, Sue Ebury
HOLLAND, Patrick, The Source of the Sound, Salt Publishing, 330/30, Estelle Tang
HOLLINGHURST, Alan, The Stranger’s Child, Picador, 333/33, Gregory Kratzmann
HOLMES, Katie, Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens, UWAP, 333/46, Penny Hanley
HOLROYD, Michael, A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers, Chatto & Windus, 332/67, Ian Britain
HONEY, Elizabeth, That’s Not a Daffodil!, Allen & Unwin, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
HORNER, David, Australia and the ‘New World Order’: From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: 1988–1991, CUP, 333/65, Peter Edwards
HOROWITZ, Mark Eden, Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions, Second Edition, Scarecrow Press, 331/59, Michael Morley
HOSPITAL, Janette Turner, Forecast: Turbulence, Fourth Estate, 337/32, Rhyll McMaster
HUGHES, Lyn, Flock, Fourth Estate, 330/20, Carol Middleton
HUGHES, Robert, Rome, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 334/8, Peter Stothard
HUON, Jess, The Dark Wet, Giramondo, 337/36, Elena Gomez
INDYK, Ivor (ed.), Heat 24, Giramondo, 329/63, James Ley
JAIRETH, Subhash, To Silence, Puncher & Wattmann, 336/68, Claudia Hyles
JAKOBSEN, Mette, The Vanishing Act, Text, 333/51, Christine Piper
JANE, Zacharey, Tobias Blow, UQP, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
JEFFERS, Oliver, The Heart and the Bottle, HarperCollins, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
JENKINS, Martin, Can We Save the Tiger?, Walker, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
JOHNS, Adrian, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, University of Chicago Press, 328/19, David Throsby
JOHNSON, Judy, The Secret Fate of Mary Watson, Fourth Estate, 332/58, Rhyll McMaster
JOHNSTON, Anna, The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture, and Power in Colonial New South Wales, UWAP, 335/67, Grace Karskens
JOLLIFFE, Jill, Finding Santana, Wakefield Press, 328/64, Joan Grant
JONES, Dean, All Through the Night, Black Dog Books, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
JONES, Gail, Five Bells, Vintage, 328/34, Felicity Plunkett
JONES, Kathleen, Katherine Mansfield: The Story Teller, Viking, 328/47, Lisa Gorton
JONES, Philip, Images of the Interior: Seven Central Australian Photographers, Wakefield Press, 336/46, Helen Ennis
JOOSTEN, Melanie, Berlin Syndrome, Scribe, 334/41, Adam Gall
JUDT, Tony, Ill Fares the Land, Allen Lane, 329/11, Bruce Grant
JUDT, Tony, The Memory Chalet, Allen Lane, 329/11, Bruce Grant
KAUFMAN, Tina, Wake in Fright, Currency Press, 329/33, Jake Wilson
KELLY, Paul, How To Make Gravy, Hamish Hamilton, 328/22, Anna Goldsworthy
KELLY, Phillipa, The King and I, Continuum, 334/57, R.S. White
KENNEDY, Cate (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2010, Black Inc., 328/29, Chris Flynn
KENNEDY, Cate (ed.), The Best Australian Stories 2011, Black Inc., 337/18, Ruth Starke
KINSELLA, John (edited by Niall Lucy), Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley, Liverpool University Press, 336/61, David McCooey
KIRK, Neville, Labour and the Politics of the Empire: Britain and Australia 1900 to the Present, Manchester University Press, 336/25, Robert Dare
KISSINGER, Henry, On China, Allen Lane, 334/13, Bruce Grant
KNOX, Malcolm, The Life, Allen & Unwin, 332/62, Adam Rivett
KRELL, Alan, Burning Issues: Fire in Art and the Social Imagination, Reaktion Books, 337/53, Peter Hill
KREMMER, Christopher, The Chase, Picador, 334/49, Don Anderson
LAGUNA, Sophie, Meet Grace, Puffin, 333/70, Ruth Starke
LANAGAN, Margo, Yellowcake, Allen & Unwin, 331/63, Benjamin Chandler
LEA, Bronwyn (ed.), Australian Poetry Journal: Beginnings, Australian Poetry, 337/53, Peter Keneally
LEHMANN, Geoffrey and Robert Gray (eds), Australian Poetry Since 1788, UNSW Press, 337/21, Michael Hofmann
LEIGH, Andrew, Disconnected, UNSW Press, 329/21, Anthony Moran
LESTER, Alison, Noni the Pony, Allen & Unwin, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
LESTER, Alison and Coral Tulloch, One Small Island: The Story of Macquarie Island, Viking, 337/74, Joy Lawn
LEVINE, George (ed.), The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for how We Live Now, Princeton University Press, 337/58, Tamas Pataki
LILLEY, Kate (ed.), Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett, UWAP, 329/8, Susan Sheridan
LITTLEMORE, Stuart, Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice, HarperCollins, 333/41, Francesca Sasnaitis
LLOSA, Mario Vargas (trans. John King), The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables, Princeton University Press, 333/61, Brian Nelson
LLOYD, Alison, Meet Letty, Puffin, 333/70, Ruth Starke
LODGE, David, A Man of Parts: A Novel, Harvill Secker, 333/35, Brenda Niall
LOUKAKIS, Angelo, For the Patriarch, Krinos Press, 335/55, Elisabeth Holdsworth
LURIE, Morris, Hergesheimer Hangs In, Arcadia, 336/54, Don Anderson
MACAULEY, Wayne, The Cook, Text, 335/53, Adam Rivett
MACAULEY, Wayne, Other Stories, Black Pepper, 328/21, Laurie Steed
MACGREGOR, Neil, A History of the World in 100 Objects, Allen Lane, 332/47, Gerard Vaughan
MCBETH, John, Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia, Talisman Publishing, 333/67, Richard Broinowski
MCCONNOCHIE, Mardi, The Voyagers: A Love Story, Viking, 331/33, Thuy On
MCGAHAN, Andrew, The Coming of the Whirlpool: Ship Kings Book One, Allen & Unwin, 337/64, Gillian Dooley
MCGREGOR, Alasdair (ed.), Antarctica: That Sweep of Savage Splendour, Viking, 334/40, James Bradley
MCKENNA, Mark, An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark, Miegunyah, 337/12, Norman Etherington
MCKERNAN, Michael, Gallipoli: A Short History, Allen & Unwin, 331/55, Robin Prior
MCKIMMIE, Chris, Good Morning Mr Pancakes, Allen & Unwin, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
MCLYNN, Frank, Captain Cook: Master of the Seas, Yale University Press, 334/11, Norman Etherington
MCMAHON, Elizabeth and Brigitta Olubas (eds), Remembering Patrick White: Contemporary Critical Essays, Rodopi, 330/10, Charles Lock
MACRIS, Anthony, When Horse Became Saw: A Family’s Journey through Autism, Viking, 331/22, Jo Case
MAHONEY, Melanie and Bec Madden (eds), Australian Animals, Australian Geographic, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
MAHONEY, Melanie and Bec Madden (eds), Sea Creatures, Australian Geographic, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
MANNE, Robert, Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation (Quarterly Essay 43), Black Inc., 336/17, Robert Phiddian
MARSH, Anne, Look: Contemporary Photography Since 1980, Macmillan Art Publishing, 332/43, Helen Ennis
MATTHEW, Penny, Crusher Kevin, Puffin, 333/70, Ruth Starke
MATTHEWS, Tina, Waiting for Later, Walker, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
MAY, Ruthie, Stew A Cockatoo, Little Hare, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
MEARS, Gillian, Foal’s Bread, Allen & Unwin, 336/51, Gillian Dooley
MEARSHEIMER, John, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, Duckworth Overlook, 337/60, Bruce Grant
MENDELSON, Edward (ed.), The Complete Works of W.H. Auden Prose, Vol. IV 1956–1962, Princeton University Press, 334/58, Simon West
MESSENGER, Jane, Patricia Piccinini: Once Upon a Time ..., Art Gallery of South Australia, 332/72, Wendy Walker
MILLER, Alex, Autumn Laing, Allen & Unwin, 335/9, Morag Fraser
MILLS, Jennifer, Gone, UQP, 330/25, Adam Rivett
MITCHELL, Alex, Come the Revolution, New South, 336/56, Jeff Sparrow
MITCHELL, Sarah Kate, Starry Starry Night, Pier 9, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
MONTEATH, Peter, P.O.W.: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler’s Reich, Macmillan, 333/68, Peter Pierce
MOORHOUSE, Frank, Cold Light, Vintage, 336/8, Kerryn Goldsworthy
MOSS, Tara, The Blood Countess, Pan Macmillan, 328/22, Jay Daniel Thompson
MOYAL, Ann, Platypus, Allen & Unwin, 328/65, Peter Menkhorst
MUNDELL, Meg, Black Glass, Scribe, 329/23, Shaun Prescott
NABLE, Matt, Faces in the Clouds, Viking, 332/63, Angela Meyer
NAYDER, Lillian, The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth, Cornell University Press, 329/49, Grace Moore
NILSSON, Eleanor, Aussie Dog, Omnibus Books, 333/70, Ruth Starke
NIXON, Christine and Jo Chandler, Fair Cop, Victory Books, 334/22, Elisabeth Holdsworth
NOLAN, Dee (photography by Earl Carter), A Food Lover’s Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Lantern, 331/47, Paul Genoni
NUNEZ, Sigrid, Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag, Atlas & Co., 334/20, Peter Rose
NUSSBAUM, Martha C., Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach, Harvard University Press, 334/54, Belinda Probert
OATES, Joyce Carol, A Widow’s Story, Fourth Estate, 331/20, Morag Fraser
OATES, Teresa and Angela Villella, Mangia! Mangia!, Lantern, 333/47, Christopher Menz
OLSEN, Penny, The Best Nest, NLA, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
OZ, Amos, Scenes from Village Life, Chatto & Windus, 335/56, Colin Golvan
PERLMAN, Elliot, The Street Sweeper, Vintage, 335/45, Don Anderson
PIGNATARO, Anna, Princess and Fairy: Twinkly Ballerinas, Scholastic, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
PIGNOLET, Damien, Salades, Lantern, 330/45, Christopher Menz
PINCOCK, Stephen (ed.), The Best Australian Science Writing 2011, New South, 336/57, Rosaleen Love
PLUNKETT, Felicity (ed.), Thirty Australian Poets, UQP, 337/20, Fiona Wright
PONS, Silvio and Robert Service (trans. Mark Epstein and Charles Townsend), Princeton University Press, 329/23, Stuart Macintyre
POOLE, Adrian (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists, CUP, 330/55, Sarah Kanowski
PORTER, Peter, The Rest on the Flight: Selected Poems, Allen & Unwin, 328/52, Peter Craven
PROULX, Annie, Bird Cloud: A Memoir, Fourth Estate, 330/29, James Bradley
PULLIN, Ruth (ed.), Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed, National Gallery of Victoria, 332/35, Mary Eagle
PUNG, Alice, Her Father’s Daughter, Black Inc., 334/24, Thuy On
PURDEY, Jemma, From Vienna to Yogyakarta: The Life of Herb Feith, UNSW Press, 333/52, Joan Grant
RADBURN, B. Michael, The Crossing, Pantera Press, 331/46, Shaun Prescott
REED, Philip and Mervyn Cooke (eds), Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten 1913–1976: VOLUME 5 1958–1965, The Boydell Press, 329/35, Andrew Ford
REEVES, Tony, The Real George Freeman, Penguin, 334/47, Tim Brewer
REID, Ian, The End of Longing, UWAP, 331/31, Jeffrey Poacher
RICHARDS, Tim, Thought Crimes, Black Inc., 334/27, Carmel Bird
RICHTER, Georgia (ed.), The Kid on the Karaoke Stage and Other Stories, Fremantle Press, 331/46, Angela Meyer
RIEFF, David, Swimming in the Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir, MUP, 334/ 20, Peter Rose
ROBERTS, Claire, Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong, Hong Kong University Press, 329/41, Peter Hill
ROBIN, Libby, Chris Dickman, and Mandy Martin (eds), Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve, CSIRO Publishing, 331/23, Kim Mahood
RODDA, Emily, Bungawitta, Scholastic, 333/70, Ruth Starke
ROUSSEL, Raymond (trans. Mark Ford), New Impressions of Africa: Nouvelles Impressions D’Afrique, Princeton University Press, 333/59, William Heyward
ROWE, Jennifer, Love, Honour & O’Brien, Allen & Unwin, 333/51, Amy Baillieu
ROWE, Noel (ed. Michael Brennan), A Cool and Shaded Heart: Collected Poems, Vagabond Press, 329/54, David McCooey
ROWE, Noel (ed. Bernadette Brennan), Ethical Investigations: Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics, Vagabond Press, 329/54, David McCooey
ROWLAND, Robyn, Seasons of Doubt & Burning: New & Selected Poems, Five Islands Press, 328/57, Maria Takolander
RUSSELL, Penny, Savage or Civilised? Manners in Colonial Australia, New South, 328/59, John Rickard
RUSSELL, Roslyn, The Business of Nature: John Gould and Australia, NLA, 332/75, John Thompson
RYAN, Gig, New and Selected Poems, Giramondo, 337/67, James Harms
RYAN, Peter, Final Proof: Memoirs of a Publisher, Quadrant Books, 333/18, Sue Ebury
SALIBA, Sue, Alaska, Penguin, 337/73, Stephen Mansfield
SAREEN, Santosh and G.J.V. Prasad (eds), Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 3, India India, 336/65, Mridula Nath Chakraborty
SARTOR, Frank, The Fog on the Hill: How NSW Labor Lost Its Way, MUP, 337/10, Joel Deane
SARTRE, Jean-Paul (trans. Chris Turner), Typhus, Seagull Books, 331/57, Colin Nettelbeck
SARTRE, Jean-Paul (trans. Chris Turner), Critical Essays, Seagull Books, 331/57, Colin Nettelbeck
SAUNDERS, Max, Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature, OUP, 330/52, Tim Dolin
SAVIGE, Jaya, Surface to Air, UQP, 336/63, Gig Ryan
SAYER, Mandy, Love in the Years of Lunacy, Allen & Unwin, 331/32, Gillian Dooley
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 33: Such is Life, Text, 334/39, Jay Daniel Thompson
SCOTT, Anne M. (ed.), Parergon, Vol. 26, No. 2, UniPrint, 329/64, Gregory Kratzmann
SHERBORNE, Craig, The Amateur Science of Love, Text, 333/39, Felicity Plunkett
SHERIDAN, Susan, Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers Making Their Mark, UQP, 328/13, Shirley Walker
SKOVRON, Alex, Raimond Gaita, and Alex Miller, Singing for All He’s Worth: Essays in Honour of Jacob B. Rosenberg, Picador, 336/38, Andrea Goldsmith
SMITH, Dominic, Bright and Distant Shores, Allen & Unwin, 329/40, Cheryl Jorgensen
SMITH, Lane, It’s a Book, Walker, 329/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
SMITH, Nigel, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon, Yale University Press, 334/36, Lisa Gorton
SMITH, Terry, What is Contemporary Art?, University of Chicago Press, 328/49, Joanna Mendelssohn
SMITH, Vanessa and Richard Yeo (eds), Parergon, Vol. 27, No. 1, UniPrint, 329/64, Gregory Kratzmann
SONDHEIM, Stephen, Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981), with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes, Virgin Books, 331/59, Michael Morley
SOSEKI, Natsume (trans. Meredith McKinney), Kokoro, Penguin, 335/48, Barry Hill
SPECK, Catherine (ed.), Heysen to Heysen: Selected Letters of Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen, NLA, 336/45, Christopher Menz
SPENCE, Pete, Perrier Fever, Grand Parade Poets, 336/64, Francesca Sasnaitis
STARFORD, Rebecca (ed.), Kill Your Darlings No. 4, Kill Your Darlings, 329/60, Tim Brewer
STARKE, Ruth, Captain Congo and the Klondike Gold, Working Title Press, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
STEAD, Elizabeth, The Sparrows of Edward Street, UQP, 331/30, Carol Middleton
STEELE, Philip, Legendary Journeys: Trains, Walker, 330/61, Nigel Pearn
STEWART, Lolla and Elaine Russell, Savannah Dreams, Little Hare, 337/74, Joy Lawn
STIRLING, Adrian, The Comet Box, Penguin, 334/66, Stephen Mansfield
SULLIVAN, Jane, Little People: A Novel, Scribe, 330/22, Carmel Bird
SUMERLING, Patricia, The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social History, Wakefield Press, 336/23, Bernard Whimpress
SWANN, Leah, Bearings, Affirm Press, 333/15, Tim Brewer
TANGEY, Penny, Clara in Washington, UQP, 337/73, Stephen Mansfield
TANNER, Lindsay, Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy, Scribe, 332/21, Gideon Haigh
TANSLEY, Tangea, A Break in the Chain: The Early Kozminskys, Affirm Press, 334/28, Miriam Zolin
TAOUK, Nouha, Whispers from a Lebanese Kitchen: A Family’s Treasured Recipes, Murdoch Books, 333/48, Christopher Menz
TAYLEUR, Karen, Six, Black Dog Books, 329/67, Anna Ryan-Punch
TESARSCH, John, The Philanthropist, Sleepers, 328/36, Thuy On
THIN, Michelle Aung, The Monsoon Bride, Text, 336/25, Elena Gomez
THOMAS, Nicholas, Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire, Yale University Press, 328/8, Alan Frost
THOMPSON, John B., Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century, Polity Press, 328/11, Terri-ann White
THOMSON, Alistair, Moving Stories: An Intimate History of Four Women Across Two Countries, UNSW Press, 334/55, Penny Russell
THWAITES, Penelope (ed.), The New Percy Grainger Companion, The Boydell Press, 331/51, David Pear
TINTNER, Tanya Buchdahl, Out of Time: The Vexed Life of Georg Tinter, UWAP, 334/46, John Carmody
TOYE, Richard, Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made, Pan Macmillan, 329/15, Robin Prior
TREASURE, Rachael, The Girl and the Ghost-Grey Mare, Michael Joseph, 335/66, Carol Middleton
TREDINNICK, Mark, Fire Diary, Puncher & Wattmann, 334/64, Brenda Ryan
TUFFIELD, Aviva (ed.), New Australian Stories 2, Scribe, 328/29, Chris Flynn
VAN SCHOUBROECK, Lesley, The Lure of Politics: Geoff Gallop’s Government 2001–2006, UWAP, 328/61, Clement Macintyre
VAN ZANTEN, David (ed.), Marion Mahony Reconsidered, University of Chicago Press, 336/35, Alasdair McGregor
WAGHORNE, James and Stuart Macintyre, Liberty: A History of Civil Liberties in Australia, UNSW Press, 336/34, Terry Lane
WAKEFIELD, Vikki, All I Ever Wanted, Text, 335/71, Thuy On
WALKER, David, Not Dark Yet: A Personal History, Giramondo, 330/31, John Rickard
WALLACE, David Foster, The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel, Hamish Hamilton, 333/37, Owen Richardson
WALSHAM, Alexandra, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland, OUP, 337/56, Wilfrid Prest
WANG, Gabrielle, Meet Poppy, Puffin, 333/70, Ruth Starke
WATSON, Don, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, Second Edition, Vintage, 336/19, Glyn Davis
WATSON, Nicole, The Boundary, UQP, 334/29, Dean Biron
WELLS, Stanley, Shakespeare, Sex and Love, OUP, 328/16, R. S. White
WESLEY, Michael, There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia, New South, 333/9, Hugh White
WEVERS, Lydia, Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World, Victoria University Press, 329/57, Deidre Coleman
WILCKEN, Patrick, Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory, Bloomsbury, 329/17, Grant Evans
WILD, Margaret, The Dream of the Thylacine, Allen & Unwin, 332/78, Stephanie Owen Reeder
WILD, Margaret, Vampyre, Walker, 336/66, Stephanie Owen Reeder
WILDING, Michael, The Magic of It, Arcadia, 336/53, Jeffrey Poacher
WILKINSON, Lili, A Pocketful of Eyes, Allen & Unwin, 336/67, Bec Kavanagh
WILSON, Karen Laura-Lee, Gaining a Sense of Self, Sid Harta Publishers, 331/62, Rachel Robertson
WILSON, Rohan, The Roving Party, Allen & Unwin, 332/59, Carmel Bird
WINDSOR, Gerard, All Day Long the Noise of Battle: An Australian Attack in Vietnam, Pier 9, 332/70, Elisabeth Holdsworth
WINN, R.M., Bury Me Vertical, Penguin, 336/68, Tim Howard
WITT-DÖRRING, Christian et al., Vienna: Art and Design: Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos, National Gallery of Victoria, 333/44, Andrew Montana
WOOD, Charlotte, Animal People, Allen & Unwin, 337/34, Miriam Zolin
YOUNG, Julian, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, CUP, 330/47, Jack Reynolds
ZABLE, Arnold, Violin Lessons, Text, 334/30, José Borghino
FEATURES INDEX 2011
ABR ELIZABETH JOLLEY SHORT STORY PRIZE
AMAN, Claire, ‘Milk Tray’, 335/50
CARBIS, Gaylene, ‘What’s Richard Ford Got to Do with It?’, 335/59
*DAY, Gregory, ‘The Neighbour’s Beans’, 335/19
*TIFFANY, Carrie, ‘Before He Left the Family’, 335/29
*Co-winners of the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 337/27
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 337/27
BIRD, Carmel, 337/27
BLAINEY, Geoffrey, 337/27
BROINOWSKI, Alison, 337/27
CUNNINGHAM, Sophie, 337/28
DONALDSON, Ian, 337/28
DOOLEY, Gillian, 337/28
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 337/28
GOLDSWORTHY, Kerryn, 337/28
HALL, Rodney, 337/28
HETHERINGTON, Paul, 337/29
JONES, Gail, 337/29
KENT, Jacqueline, 337/29
KINSELLA, John, 337/29
LEY, James, 337/30
MCCAUGHEY, Patrick, 337/30
MCFARLANE, Brian, 337/30
MORLEY, Michael, 337/31
NIALL, Brenda, 337/31
RICKARD, John, 337/31
STOTHARD, Peter, 337/31
TRANTER, John, 337/31
BOOKS OF THE YEAR: CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
KAVANAGH, Bec, 337/72
LAWN, Joy, 337/72
MACINTYRE, Pam, 337/72
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, 337/72
SHUTTLEWORTH, Mike, 337/72
STARKE, Ruth, 337/72
CALIBRE PRIZE
BIRON, Dean, ‘The Death of the Writer’, 331/36
MCKINNON, Moira, ‘Who Killed Matilda?’, 333/21
COMMENTARY
ALLINGTON, Patrick, ‘“What is Australia, Anyway?”: The Glorious Limitations of the Miles Franklin Literary Award’, 332/23
BUCHANAN, Rachel, ‘“Sweeping up the Ashes”: The Politics of Collecting Personal Papers’, 337/40
DEANE, Joel, ‘A Bomb in Every Download: Julian Assange and Digital Eternity’, 331/10
FLYNN, Chris, ‘Claws out for a Writing Career: Challenging Times for Mid-list Authors’, 335/14
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, ‘Dr Goldsworthy on Dr Chekhov: Reflections on an Equal-opportunity Misanthrope’, 329/29
GOLVAN, Colin, ‘Copyright and the Internet: The New Electronic Order’, 331/25
GOODALL, Jane, ‘Something is Turning: The Role of Essays in a Questioning Culture’, 330/49
HARRIS, Margaret, ‘Ripe for Rediscovery: Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children’, 335/26
LEHMANN, Geoffrey, ‘The Making of an Anthology: Fewer Poets in Our Largest Anthology’, 336/28
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, ‘Native Grounds and Foreign Fields: The Paradoxical Neglect of Australian Art Abroad’, 332/11
MORRISON, Fiona, ‘Reading Letty Fox in 2011’, 335/27
NELSON, Brian, ‘The Divine Stenographer’, 333/60
SPALDING, Frances, ‘The Biographer’s Contract’, 328/38
THOMAS, Daniel, ‘“It Should Be So, It Must Be So”: David Walsh’s Private Museum in Hobart’, 332/49
WEST, Simon, ‘Hautes Fenêtres: Thoughts on the Place of Translation in Recent Australian Poetry’, 333/54
FILM
HARVEY, Melinda, Jane Eyre, 333/32
MCFARLANE, Brian, The Tempest, 331/49
ROSE, Peter, The Eye of the Storm, 335/39
WILSON, Jake, Brighton Rock, 330/40
WILSON, Jake, Here I Am, 332/64
WILSON, Jake, The Tall Man, 337/37
GRAPHIC STORY
MUTARD, Bruce, ‘2048’, 335/41
OPEN PAGE
BEVERIDGE, Judith, 330/64
BROOKS, Geraldine, 331/64
CARROLL, Steven, 334/68
FALCONER, Delia, 333/72
FUNDER, Anna, 335/72
HALL, Rodney, 332/80
JONES, Gail, 329/68
MOORHOUSE, Frank, 337/76
ROWLEY, Hazel, 328/68
PETER PORTER POETRY PRIZE: THE SHORTLISTED POEMS
*BISHOP, Judith, ‘Openings’, 329/46
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Moonlight Sculptures’, 329/45
GORTON, Lisa, ‘Dreams and Artefacts’, 329/44
*LINTERMANS, Tony, ‘Self-portrait at Sixty’, 329/43
SKOVRON, Alex, ‘Humility’, 329/48
*Co-winners of the Peter Porter Poetry Prize
POEMS
ASHBERY, John, ‘Feel Free’, 336/33
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘At Rajkote’, 330/19
BROPHY, Kevin, ‘The Sublime’, 332/42
DISNEY, Dan, ‘Smalltown Études’, 330/41
DOBSON, Rosemary, ‘I was washing at night’, 333/58
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Morandi and the Hard Problem’, 333/40
HEWETT, Dorothy, ‘This Version of Love’, 329/9
JAMES, Clive, ‘A Context for Intensity’, 334/61
KINSELLA, John, ‘Penillion of Tuning the Harpsichord (for J. Mattheson’s Harpsichord Suite no. 12 in F Minor as tuned and played by Dan Tidhar at the Fitzwilliam)’, 337/23
MANDELSTAM, Osip, ‘Умывался ночью на дворе’, 333/58
MORTIMER, David, ‘Holiday’, 331/45
RYAN, Brendan, ‘Philip Hodgins – A Dream’, 328/25
RYAN, Gig, ‘Savonarola’, 337/68
TEMPLEMAN, Ian, ‘Paper Gardener’, 328/44
TRANTER, John, ‘Least Said’, 336/33
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, ‘Camaldulensis’, 333/50
WEBB, Francis, ‘Legionary Ants’, 331/19
SHORT STORIES
MACAULEY, Wayne, ‘Half a House on a Truck Near T——’, 329/51
MOFFAT, Catherine, ‘Russell Drysdale’s Trousers’, 337/24
MUNDELL, Meg, ‘Narcosis’, 336/40
ROWE, Josephine, ‘Suitable for a Lampshade’, 328/32
TELEVISION
HAWKER, Philippa, The Slap, 335/58
MCFARLANE, Brian, Cloudstreet, 322/54
TRIBUTE
CHONG, W.H., ‘Her Verdict Was the Prize: The Legendary Influence and Career of Diana Gribble (1942–2011)’, 336/37
HAREWOOD, Patricia, ‘Stupenda in the Abbey’, 333/42
SUSSEX, Lucy, ‘Biographer of Big Subjects: Hazel Rowley (1951–2011)’, 330/28
