Chairperson

Sarah Holland-Batt is Chair of ABR. Sarah, who joined the Board in 2017, is the first Queenslander to hold this position – and our youngest Chair to date. Her most recent poetry collection is The Jaguar (UQP, 2022). She won the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry for The Hazards (UQP, 2015). She is the recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, fellowships at MacDowell and Yaddo colonies in the United States, and an Australia Council Literature Residency at the B.R. Whiting Studio Library in Rome, among other honours. She presently works as a Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT.

Deputy Chair

Geordie Williamson

Treasurer

Peter McLennan

Board Members

Graham Anderson
Declan Fry
Blayney Morgan
Professor Katie Stevenson
Professor Lynette Russell AM

November 2011, No. 336

Rodney Hall: Silence – James Ley

October 2011, No. 335

Alex Miller: Autumn Laing – Morag Fraser

September 2011, No. 334

Robert Hughes's flawed history of Rome – Peter Stothard

July–August 2011, No. 333

Coping with a resurgent China – Hugh White

June 2011, No. 332

'What is Australia, anyway?' – Patrick Allington

May 2011, No. 331

Copyright and the Internet – Colin Golvan

April 2011, No. 330

The cant about free speech – Terry Lane

Jane Sullivan: Little People – Carmel Bird

March 2011, No. 329

Tony Judt’s nimble mind – Bruce Grant

February 2011, No. 328

James Bradley (ed.): The Penguin Book of the Ocean – Gregory Kratzmann

December 2010–January 2011, No. 327

Guthrie vs Murdoch – Jan McGuinness
A new biography of Barry Humphries – Ian Britain

Strangers in the know – Geordie Williamson

Graham Oppy et al. (eds): A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand – Adrian Walsh

November 2010, No. 326

Changes at the National Gallery of Australia – Christopher Menz

Millennial slippage: Honouring the paradox and majesty of art – Bill Henson

Lloyd Jones: Hand Me Down World – Jo Case

Roger McDonald: When Colts Ran – Peter Pierce

Anna Krien: Into the Woods – Peter Mares

October 2010, No.325

Kim Scott’s new novel That Deadman Dance – Patrick Allington

The woman behind Mary Poppins – Lisa Gorton

Having it both ways – James Ley

September 2010, No. 324

The assassination of Kevin Rudd – Neal Blewett

Mythologising Hawke – Bruce Grant

Remembering Jessica Anderson – Susan Sheridan

Devil in the detail – Kate Holden

Chris Womersley: Bereft – Carmel Bird

Winds of War – Ruth Starke

July–August 2010, No. 323

The travails of Bill Clinton – Morag Fraser

The Balibo Five – Jill Jolliffe

Furore in Israel – Jonathan Pearlman

Vodka fumes – Kate Holden

June 2010, No. 322

Littoral Truth: Peter Porter (1929–2010) – Peter Steele

Man of paper, mind of steel – Michael Shmith

Letters to an Unknown Friend – Robert Dessaix

Tattooed lady – Jo Case

Here’s trouble – Gay Bilson

May 2010, No. 321

Vindicating Malcolm Fraser – Neal Blewett

Fighting on the beaches – Robin Prior

Joel Deane: The Norseman's Song – Chris Flynn

April 2010, No. 320

Once and Australian – Brigitta Olubas

ABR Poetry Prize Shortlist – Ynes Sanz et al.

Some kind of ghost – Kate Holden

The last king of Poland, the glass king of France – David McCooey

The young Robert Hughes – Daniel Vuillermin

March 2010, No. 319

Prickles of disquiet – Murray Waldren

The trials of Helpmann – Lee Christofis

Pagan charm – Gillian Dooley

Everyman Cosgrove – Patrick Allington

The hypnotic J.D. Salinger – Jane Goodall

February 2010, No. 318

Announcing the ABR Favourite Australian Novels

Tongues of fire - Gregory Kratzmann

Chancing our arm - Anthony Elliott

The latest laureate - Ian Gibbins

Cornucopia of death - Dianne Dempsey

Andrew Markus, James Jupp and Peter McDonald: Australia's Immigration Revolution – Peter Mares

December 2009–January 2010, No. 317

Clive James and limelight - Peter Craven

Thomas Keneally: Australians - Ann Standish

Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America - Murray Waldren

Judith Beveridge: Storm and Honey - Lisa Gorton

November 2009, No. 316

Climatic quarrels - Rosaleen Love

David Foster's new novel - James Ley

Alex Miller's Lovesong - Judith Armstrong

Les Murray: Killing the Black Dog - Chris Wallace-Crabbe

October 2009, No. 315

Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch - David Musgrave

Brenda Niall on a spirited Jesuit - Morag Fraser

Dorothy Porter's posthumous collection - Gig Ryan

Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct - Helen McDonald

September 2009, No. 314

'Vanishing Wunderkind': The great oeuvre of the enigmatic Stow – Tony Hassall

'Obscuring the Heritage': The Macquarie Anthology – Peter Craven

'Guerrilla Raid on Sincerity': J.M. Coetzee's new 'novel' – James Ley

'Crashing Through': Seismic times for Gough Whitlam – Jenny Hocking

Tom Keneally's new novel – Patrick Allington

Cate Kennedy's debut novel The World Beneath – Jo Case

July–August 2009, No. 313

Bitter Fruit: Ruth Park's Trilogy of Want and Human Spirit – Shirley Walker

May 2009, No. 311

'The very edge of things': David Malouf's Ransom – Peter Rose

November 2008, No. 306

'None but the Brave': The Costello Memoirs – Neal Blewett

David Marr: The Henson Case – Peter Rose

October 2008, No. 305

'Missing From My Own Life' – Elisabeth Holdsworth

July–August 2007, No. 329

ABR/La Trobe University Annual Lecture: 'The Ups, the Downs: My Life as a Biographer' – Hazel Rowley

April 2007, No. 290

'Death Dance' – David Hansen

December 2004–January 2005, No. 267

The Sound and the Fury: Uneasy Times for Hacks and Critics - Peter Rose

April 2003

The Inaugural National Biography Award Annual Lecture – Peter Rose

June–July 2002, No. 242

'Keating the Fascinator': Don Watson's Recollections of a Bleeding Heart – Neal Blewett

August 2001, No. 233

'Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath: A Bystander's Recollections' – Peter Porter

Winner of the 2009 ABR Reviewing Competition

Only in America

Kathleen Steele

Roger’s World: Toward a New Understanding of Animals

by Charles Siebert

Scribe Publications

$29.95 pb, 224 pp, 9781921372865

Ostensibly, Roger’s World is an account of Charles Siebert’s whistle-stop tour of primate retirement homes in America. By the author’s reckoning, there are approximately two to three thousand chimpanzees in America, as well as a substantial number of their primate cousins. He travels across the country, visiting captive chimpanzees on an ‘impromptu farewell tour of our own kidnapped and caged primal selves’, until he encounters Roger, with whom he feels a profound connection.

If one is inclined to accept the disturbing idea of retirement homes for chimpanzees as only possible in America, Siebert’s final night with Roger, at the Center for Great Apes, in Wauchope, Florida, forces a reassessment of such easy presumptions. The hours of silence between man and ape lead to an exploration of the broader context of humanity’s relationship with animals. Siebert laments a wildlife ‘endgame’ in which he insists hundreds of animals are damaged and diseased in the name of research, and entire species exposed to nervous distress due to human activities. This leads him to the discomfiting conclusion that if we ever figure out how to talk to the animals, there may be none (bar those we have already captured and irreparably damaged) left to answer.

The latent damage caused by human–animal interactions is brought home during the nocturnal stare-downs between Roger and Siebert, in which Siebert contemplates Maurice Temerlin’s book Lucy: Growing Up Human (1976), a harrowing account of Temerlin’s ‘psycho-anthropological’ experiment to raise Lucy, the chimpanzee, as a human child. Lucy lived in the Temerlin home as part of the family. She learnt sign-language, raised a pet cat and entertained visitors. After living with the Temerlins for ten years, Lucy’s ‘parents’ decided to release her into the wild. They spent three days with her at a holding compound in Africa before returning to America. Fortunately their babysitter, Janis Carter, took it upon herself to stay for the six years it took Lucy to adapt to life in the wild. A photograph of Carter’s reunion with Lucy six months after she left her to fend for herself is an extremely distressing image. Lucy’s breeder said her release was the ‘most cruel damn thing that could have been done’. One can only agree wholeheartedly and hope that similar experiments will never be permitted again.

Siebert’s subtle meanderings between Roger’s and Lucy’s stories help throw the twin potentialities of destruction and recuperation within the human empathetic impulse into sharp relief. While the Temerlins’ abandonment of Lucy was unquestionably reprehensible, Carter had no way of knowing if her actions were ultimately helpful or harmful. Nor can Siebert, as he holds Roger’s gaze, be sure how his actions will affect Roger. He hesitates to offer Roger’s hand, as doing so could have dire consequences for the emotionally damaged chimpanzee, yet in spite of his reservations he does finally reach out and touch Roger. The result is positive, but Siebert had no way of knowing such before making the gesture.

Woven throughout Siebert’s seamless digressions about human–animal relationships is a broader evolution–Creation debate, in which Siebert displays particular prejudice against Creationists and individuals who continue to breed and use chimpanzees for entertainment purposes. His encounters with both groups are peppered with words like ‘scary’, ‘suspicious’, and ‘nefarious’, and he asserts: ‘the exotic-animals trade is, by and large, licensed and legal, and, like the right to bear arms in the United States, just as staunchly defended.’

Siebert’s passion is admirable, and he offers excellent insights into the blinkering effect of entrenched language choices, but while one can understand his frustration with people who enjoy all of the benefits of science yet deny one of its foundation theories, it is harder to sympathise with his negative opinion of the breeders he encounters in his travels. No doubt there are ignorant and ‘nefarious’ breeders, but the ones he interviews appear to care deeply for their chimpanzees. His use of negative language and his alignment of exotic animal breeders with groups that provoke emotive reactions introduce a discordant note into an otherwise effortless style.

Roger’s World is enjoyable, and contains some fascinating asides into ‘humanzee’ lore and the strange history of animal trials in human courts of law. It is not, however, a feel-good account of human largesse toward animals that have outlived their usefulness. Current social and economic problems make it easy to overlook the many animals that are voiceless victims of increased consumption and inequality; victims with ‘minds enough to lose and histories that can only hasten the process’. Siebert’s timely narrative suggests that it is time for deeper consideration of our relationship to animals; time perhaps, to reappraise the gap between our ethical and moral obligations to animals and our actions.

Kathleen Steele lives in Sydney and has recently undertaken a Creative PhD with a focus on Australian Literature at Macquarie University. Her work has been published in Zinewest 2008 and Skive, and online at The Australian Ejournal of Theology and Southern Ocean Review.

Second place in the 2009 ABR Reviewing Competition

Ransoming humanity

John Clanchy

Ransom

by David Malouf

Knopf

$29.95 hb, 224 pp, 97817416683

In 1939, with the invasion of Paris imminent, the French writer and activist Simone Weil fled to the South. Among the papers and notebooks she took with her was an as-yet-unpublished essay, L’Iliade ou le Poème de la Force. Understandably, Weil read Homer’s martial epic through the prism of her own circumstances and time, seeing in the imminent sack of Troy, and the wholesale slaughter and enslavement of its population, a prophetic metaphor for what was about to engulf her native city and Europe. ‘The true hero, the real subject, the core of the Iliad,’ she wrote, ‘is force.’

Weil is right. The Iliad is the ultimate poem of ‘force’, of violence and its celebration. Each of the twenty-four books of the poem is steeped in a violence of the bloodiest and most anatomically precise kind. Swords cleave brains, genitals are hacked, buttocks pierced with arrows. A Trojan charioteer is ‘fished’ out over the rail of his chariot on the end of a spear which has been driven through his right jawbone, its blunt flanges locking behind his teeth. Yet Weil’s essay is also only partly right, her Iliad missing both ‘the wild joy … of archaic warfare’ (George Steiner) and the countervailing Homeric values of honour, piety, compassion and right conduct.

Not so Ransom, David Malouf’s brilliant recent reprise of this ancient tale. Malouf holds the crucial balance between elements fundamental to the Homeric world: ecstatic violence, the proper celebration of martial honour, and the sacred bonds to gods and to family. In Part One, for example, Malouf presents a scene of hubristic bestiality in which an insane Achilles drags the butchered corpse of Hector, Troy’s defender, behind his chariot, while Priam and Hecuba look down from the ramparts wailing at the dishonour being done to their son’s body. In Part Two, Malouf sets against this a scene of great tenderness, even domesticity, between Priam and Hecuba, Priam’s queen and lifelong companion, as they discuss ways to ransom Hector’s body, their fears for their city, for their family and for the savage, separate fates which they know lie ahead for each of them.

Malouf reads both sides of this ancient coin. Achilles, he demonstrates, also acts from within a hell of his own, caught in a self-consuming rage so deep and blind that no gesture of revenge, no act of despoliation heaped on Hector’s corpse, can be enough to expunge his own suffering (this over the death of Patroclus, his lifelong companion). In fact only one agent can set him free from this spell of mad despair – and that, in Malouf’s dramatic irony, is Priam himself, his sworn enemy. It is Priam, of all people, who opens up for Achilles the possibility of recovering his lost humanity.

Malouf has Priam coming by night to the Achean camp, accompanied by a humble carter, to beg for the return of his son’s body. His plea is couched in the simplest and most affecting terms. First, he reminds Achilles of his own son, Neoptolemus, growing up fatherless in far-off Scyros and then begs him ‘as a father, and as one poor mortal to another – to accept the ransom I bring and give me back the body of my son’. In adopting such common, unkingly language, Priam reveals the double irony that Malouf has been playing with all along: the fact that Priam himself, by this act of supplication, has been freed from the iron shackles of royal stasis. In the risk he has taken, in opening his life up to Chance through this act of submission to a hated enemy, Priam ransoms his own cramped humanity.

Malouf’s novel is studded with these inventive and elaborate ironies, conveyed in a language that is by turns lyrical, sinewy, and glitteringly simple and moving. Nowhere is this more evident than in the climatic scene, in which Priam appears in the smoky darkness of the Greek hut where Achilles is seated at table. In Malouf’s thrilling (Shakespearean) inversion, Achilles looks up and sees not Priam but his own father, Peleus:

‘Father,’ he says again, aloud this time, overcome with tenderness for this old man and his trembling frailty. ‘Peleus! Father!’ great Achilles, eyes aswarm, is weeping. With a cry he falls on one knee, and leans out to clasp his father’s robe.

The illusion doesn’t last, of course, but it has done its work. The identification is so strong – the paternal-filial bond so powerfully invoked – that Achilles must answer to it, and grant Priam’s wish.

According to his afterword, David Malouf has taken nearly sixty years to find the way to write this minor miracle of a novel. We should be grateful for the brief intermission. Every page has been worth the wait.

See also Peter Rose’s review of Ransom, which appeared in the May 2009 edition, in ABR's online archive: HERE

REVIEWS INDEX 2009

ABJORENSEN, Norman, John Howard and the Conservative Tradition, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 309/25, Judith Brett
ADAMSON, Robert (ed.), The Best Australian Poems 2009, Black Inc., 317/28, Gregory Kratzmann
ALEXANDER, George, Slow Burn, UWA Publishing, 317/62, Adam Rivett
ALLINGTON, Patrick, Figurehead, Black Inc., 315/49, Alison Broinowski
AMSTERDAM, Steven, Things We Didn’t See Coming, Sleepers, 310/63, Rebecca Starford
ANDERSON, Jaynie (ed.), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence. The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art, Miegunyah, 315/39, Patrick McCaughey
ANDERSON, Warwick, The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen, The John Hopkins University Press (Footprint Books), 308/9, Martha Macintyre
ANG, Ien, Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dabboussy, The SBS Story: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity, UNSW Press, 308/41, Dean Biron
APTER, Jeff, Fortunate Son: The Unlikely Rise of Keith Urban, Bantam, 308/47, Suzie Gibson
ARMSTRONG, John, In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea, Allen Lane, 315/30, Tamas Pataki
ARNOLD, John, The Fanfrolico Press: Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books, Private Libraries Association, 317/57, John Thompson
ARNOLD, John (ed.), La Trobe Journal, No. 83, State Library of Victoria Foundation, 314/58, Ian Morrison
ASHTON, Kalinda, The Danger Game, Sleepers, 317/65, Georgie Arnott
ATTWOOD, Bain, Possession: Batman’s Treaty and the Matter of History, Miegunyah, 314/14, Robert Kenny
AUSTEN, Jane, The Later Manuscripts (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen), CUP, 313/20, Graham Tulloch
AVERILL, Roger, Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey, Transit Lounge, 313/62, Jane Goodall
BAER, Robert, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, Scribe, 310/20, Richard Broinowski
BAIL, Murray, Fairweather, Murdoch Books, 312/11, Ian Britain
BALLOU, Emily, The Darwin Poems, UWAP, 313/65, Elizabeth Campbell
BARCLAY, James et al., Flinch, Gestalt Publishing, 313/61, Chris Flynn
BARNARD, Loretta and Gregory Rogers, 30 Australian Sports Legends, Random House, 309/62, Mike Shuttleworth
BASE, Graeme, Enigma: A Magical Mystery, Viking, 308/54, Stephanie Owen Reeder
BASTIAN, Peter, Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man, UNSW Press, 314/49, Nicholas Brown
BATTS, John S. et al. (eds), Five Bells Australian Poetry Festival (Double Issue), Poets’ Union Inc., 312/55, Lisa Gorton
BEALE. Fleur, Sins of the Father: The Long Shadow of a Religious Cult, Longacre Press (Random House), 314/24, Bill Metcalf
BEATON, Ben, Mama’s Song, Black Dog Books, 317/74, Stephen Mansfield
BEAZLEY, Kim E., Father of the House: The Memoirs of Kim E. Beazley, Fremantle Press, 308/16, Geoff Gallop
BEECHER, Eric (ed.), The Best Australian Political Writing 2009, MUP, 311/46, Jay Daniel Thompson
BELICH, James, Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783–1939, OUP, 317/40, Norman Etherington
BENNETT, James and Amy Reigle Newland, The Golden Journey: Japanese Art from Australian Collections, AGSA, 311/44, Doug Hall
BERRA, Tim M., Charles Darwin: The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man, The Johns Hopkins University Press (Footprint Books), 309/7, David Lumsden
BEVERIDGE, Judith, Storm and Honey, Giramondo, 317/69, Lisa Gorton
BIGSBY, Christopher, Arthur Miller, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 311/48, Brian McFarlane
BIRD, Delys and Dennis Haskell (eds), Westerly, Vol. 53, Westerly Centre, UWA, 310/62, Anthony Lynch
BIRD, Delys and Dennis Haskell (eds), Westerly, Vol. 54, No. 1, Westerly Centre, 315/61, Patrick Allington
BIRKHEAD, Tim, The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, Bloomsbury, 308/48, Peter Menkhorst
BIRNS, Nicholas (ed.), Antipodes, Vol. 22, No. 2, American Association of Australian Literary Studies, 313/38, Anthony Lynch
BOER, Roland, Political Grace: The Revolutionary Theology of John Calvin, Westminster John Knox Press, 317/50, Bruce Mansfield
BOEY, Kim Cheng, Between Stations, Giramondo, 316/25, Alison Broinowski
BOSWORTH, R.J.B. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Fascism, OUP, 315/55, Judith Keene
BOWDEN, Brett, The Empire of Civilization: The Evolution of an Imperial Ideal, University of Chicago Press (Footprint Books), 313/44, Roland Bleiker
BOYD, Brian, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction, Harvard University Press (Inbooks), 315/21, Lisa Gorton
BRASCH, Nicholas, Gallipoli: Reckless Valour, Black Dog Books, 315/62, Pam Macintyre
BRENNAN, Michael, Unanimous Night, Salt Publishing (Inbooks), 308/51, Martin Duwell
BROWN, Pam, True Thoughts, Salt Publishing (Inbooks), 312/57, Jennifer Strauss
BROOKS, David, The Umbrella Club, UQP, 315/50, Stephen Muecke
BRUGMAN, Alyssa, Girl Next Door, Random House, 310/59, January Jones
BRYSON, Gary, Turtle, Allen & Unwin, 311/63, Rjurik Davidson
BRZEZINSKI, Zbigniew and Brent Scowcroft (moderated by David Ignatius), America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy, Basic Books, 308/20, Hugh White
BUDELMANN, Felix (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric, CUP, 314/22, Christopher Allen
CAIN, Frank, Terrorism and Intelligence in Australia: A History of ASIO and National Surveillance, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 313/43, Andrew O’Neil
CALI, Davide and Evelyn Daviddi, I Like Chocolate, Wilkins Farago, 312/60, Stephanie Owen Reeder
CALLAHAN, David, Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital, UQP, 314/54, Susan Lever
CAMPBELL, Marion May, Fragments from a Paper Witch, Salt Publishing (Inbooks), 310/36, Philip Mead
CAPON, Edmund, I Blame Duchamp: My Life’s Adventures in Art, Lantern (Penguin Books), 316/29, Patrick McCaughey
CARROLL, Steven, The Lost Life, Fourth Estate, 310/8, Patrick Allington
CAREY, Gabrielle, Waiting Room: A Memoir, Scribe, 311/36, Claudia Hyles
CAREY, Peter, Parrot and Olivier in America, Hamish Hamilton, 317/30, Murray Waldren
CARTER, Paul, Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design, University of Hawai‘i Press, 315/31, Jane Goodall
CASTRO, Brian, The Bath Fugues, Giramondo, 313/11, Jeffrey Poacher
CATHCART, Michael, The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent, Text, 315/44, Rosaleen Love
CAVE, Nick, The Death of Bunny Munro, Text, 314/34, Mark Gomes
CHARLES, Kathy, Hollywood Ending, Text, 315/25, Angela Meyer
CHANDLER, James and Maureen N. McLane (eds), The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry, CUP, 309/57, Deirdre Coleman
CHENG, Christopher (ed.) and Gregory Rogers, 60 Classic Australian Poems, Random House Australia, 317/73, Ruth Starke
CHO, Tom, Look Who’s Morphing, Giramondo, 312/44, Adam Rivett
CHRISTOPHER, Lucy, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor, Chicken House for Scholastic Australia, 317/74, Stephen Mansfield
CLARKE, Judith, The Winds of Heaven, Allen & Unwin, 314/63, Anna Ryan-Punch
COADY, C.A.J., Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics, OUP, 312/26, Tamas Pataki
COETZEE, J.M., Summertime: Scenes from Provincial Life III, Knopf, 314/9, James Ley
COLLIE, Craig and Hajime Marutani, The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track, Allen & Unwin, 317/67, Steven Bullard
COLLINS, Roger, Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy, Weidenfield & Nicolson, 314/56, Paul Crittenden
CONRAD, Peter, Islands: A Trip Through Time and Space, Thames & Hudson, 312/22, Brenda Niall
CRAWFORD, Robert, The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography, Jonathan Cape, 311/52, Graham Tulloch
CRAWFORD, Robert (ed.), New Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Polygon, 311/52, Graham Tulloch
CRAWFORD, Robert and Christopher MacLachlan (eds), The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns, Polygon, 311/52, Graham Tulloch
CREW, Gary, The Children’s Writer, Fourth Estate, 315/52, Ruth Starke
CRISP, Tracy, Black Dust Dancing, Wakefield Press, 312/62, Jay Daniel Thompson
CROALL, Jonathan, Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life, Haus Books, 308/42, Brian McFarlane
CROOME, Andrew, Document Z, Allen & Unwin, 314/33, Judith Armstrong
CUNNINGHAM, Stuart, In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy, UQP, 308/44, Jake Wilson
DALE-JONES, Don and P. Bernard Jones (eds), The Complete Poems of T.H. Jones, University of Wales Press, 311/58, Tony Hassall
DALEY, Paul, Beersheba: A Journey through Australia’s Forgotten War, MUP, 314/19, Robin Prior
DARMODY, Sarah (ed.), Thanks for the Mammaries, Penguin, 312/62, Annie Condon
DATTNER, Zoe and Louise Swinn (eds), The Sleepers Almanac, No. 5, Sleepers, 310/56, Georgie Arnott
DE MATOS, Christine, Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 310/47, Wayne Reynolds
DE GROEN, Fran and Peter Kirkpatrick (eds), Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour, UQP, 309/59, Robert Phiddian
DENNIS, Peter et al. (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, Second Edition, OUP, 308/24, David Horner
DETTMAR, Kevin J.H. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, CUP, 314/39, Imre Salusinszky
DEVER, Maryanne, Sally Newman and Ann Vickery, The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through Private Papers, NLA, 314/53, Sylvia Martin
DICKINS, Barry, Unparalleled Sorrow: Finding My Way Back from Depression, Hardie Grant Books, 314/42, Michael McGirr
DISHER, Garry, Blood Moon, Text, 312/46, Tony Smith
DUGGAN, Laurie, Crab & Winkle: East Kent & Elsewhere, 2006–2007, Shearsman Books, 316/63, Michael Farrell
DUTTON, Denis, The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution, OUP, 315/35, Helen McDonald
EAGLETON, Terry, Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, 309/20, Anthony Elliott
EARLS, Nick, The True Story of Butterfish, Vintage, 313/14, Dean Biron
EDGAR, Stephen, History of the Day, Black Pepper, 314/61, Paul Hetherington
EGAN, Greg, Incandescence, Gollancz, 309/45, Alice Gorman
EGGERT, Paul, Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature, CUP, 314/26, Robyn Sloggett
ELLIS, Bob, And So it Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change, Viking, 313/34, John Byron
EPSTEIN, Joseph, Fred Astaire, Yale University Press (Inbooks), 310/53, Michael Morley
ESTENSEN, Miriam, The Letters of George & Elizabeth Bass, Allen & Unwin, 310/50, Gillian Dooley
EVANS, Gareth, The Responsibility to Protect: End Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All, Brookings Institution Press (UniReps), 309/18, Allan Gyngell
FARRELL, Michael, a raiders guide, Giramondo, 310/34, Gig Ryan
FEHSENFELD, Martha Dow and Lois More Overbeck (eds), The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Vol. 1: 1929–1940, CUP, 312/7, James Ley
FERRELL, Lori Anne, The Bible and the People, Yale University Press (Inbooks), 311/22, Andrew McGowan
FIENBERG, Anna and Barbara, Tashi and the Phoenix, Allen & Unwin, 311/61, Nigel Pearn
FITZGERALD, Ross, Lyndon Megarrity and David Symons (eds), Made in Queensland: A New History, UQP, 313/37, Bill Metcalf
FITZSIMONS, Peter, Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men, HarperCollins, 314/47, Peter Pierce
FORSTER, Deborah, The Book of Emmett, Vintage, 311/63, Jay Daniel Thompson
FOSTER, David, Sons of the Rumour, Picador, 316/15, James Ley
FOX, Mem and Helen Oxenbury, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Viking, 308/54, Stephanie Owen Reeder
FRAME, Tom, Evolution in the Antipodes: Charles Darwin and Australia, UNSW Press, 311/27, Cameron Shingleton
FRANCIS, David, Stray Dog Winter, Allen & Unwin, 309/46, Chad Habel
FRENCH, Blair and Daniel Palmer, Twelve Australian Photo Artists, Piper Press, 314/43, Isobel Crombie
FRENCH, Sarah, Richard Rossiter and Deborah Hunn (guest eds), Indigo Vol. 3, Tactile Books, 310/62, Anthony Lynch
FREUDENBERG, Graham, A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam’s Life in Politics, Viking, 314/16, Jenny Hocking
FROW, John and Katrina Schlunke (eds), Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, MUP, 314/23, Anthony Lynch
GARVEY, Nathan, The Celebrated George Barrington: A Spurious Author; The Book Trade, and Botany Bay, Hordern House, 317/54, Suzanne Rickard
GAY, Michel, Zou, Gecko Press, 316/65, Stephanie Owen Reeder
GAY, Penny, The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies, CUP, 311/50, Robert Phiddian
GELDER, Ken and Paul Salzman, After the Celebration: Australian Fiction 1989–2007, MUP, 310/7, Peter Pierce
GEMMELL, Nikki, The Book of Rapture, Fourth Estate, 314/38, Thuy On
GIBSON, Ross, The Summer Exercises, UWAP, 311/10, Marion May Campbell
GILES, Stephen M., Silas and the Winterbottoms, Pan Macmillan, 311/60, Anna Ryan-Punch
GLEITZMAN, Morris, Grace, Viking, 315/40, Tony Wilson
GLEITZMAN, Morris, Toad Surprise, Puffin, 311/61, Nigel Pearn
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, Reunion, Fourth Estate, 311/9, Judith Armstrong
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, Piano Lessons, Black Inc., 316/24, Claudia Hyles
GOODALL, Heather and Allison Cadzow, Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney’s George’s River, UNSW Press, 317/43, Michael Cathcart
GOODALL, Jane, Stage Presence, Routledge, 314/20, John Rickard
GOONERATNE, Yasmine, The Sweet and Simple Kind: A Novel of Sri Lanka, Little, Brown, 312/43, Alison Broinowski
GOPNIK, Adam (ed.), The Best American Essays 2008, Houghton Mifflin, 308/11, Gay Bilson
GORDON, Bruce, Calvin, Yale University Press (Inbooks), 317/50, Bruce Mansfield
GORDON, Neve, Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press (Inbooks), 308/22, Peter Rodgers
GRANT, Kirsty et al., John Brack, National Gallery of Victoria, 313/7, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
GRAY, Robert, The Land I Came Through Last, Giramondo, 309/33, Ian Templeman
GREEN, Jessica, Theodork, Scholastic, 311/60, Anna Ryan-Punch
GREENAWAY, Lisa and Klare Lanson (eds), Going Down Swinging, No. 28, Going Down Swinging Inc., 313/35, Tim Howard
GREGORY, Jenny and Jan Gothard (eds), Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, UWAP, 316/13, Stuart Macintyre
GRIMWADE, Stephen (ed.), Literary Melbourne: A Celebration of Writing and Ideas, Hardie Grant Books, 316/23, Kylie Mirmohamadi
GROOM, Linda, First Fleet Artist: George Raper’s Birds and Plants of Australia, NLA, 312/51, John Thompson
GUILLIATT, Richard and Peter Hohnen, The Wolf: The Most Audacious Warship of World War One and its 15-Month Campaign of Terror Against Australia and the World, William Heinemann, 312/49, Peter Pierce
HALL, Lincoln, Alive in the Death Zone: Mount Everest Survival, Random House, 309/62, Mike Shuttleworth
HALLIGAN, Marion, Valley of Grace, Allen & Unwin, 310/12, Christina Hill
HALLS, Julian, The Museum, Knocklofty Press, 309/46, Jay Daniel Thompson
HAM, Paul (ed.), Captain Bullen’s War: The Vietnam War Diaries of Captain John Bullen, HarperCollins, 313/57, Elisabeth Holdsworth
HARRIS, Anita (ed.), Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, Routledge, 308/53, Kate Goldsworthy
HARRISON, Brian, Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951–1970, OUP, 313/51, Neal Blewett
HARRISON, Jennifer and Kate Waterhouse (eds), Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry 1986–2008, Puncher & Wattmann, 315/28, Lyn McCredden
HARRISON, Martin, Wild Bees: Selected Poems, UWAP, 310/35, Ian Templeman
HARMAN, Claire, Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, Text, 315/47, Penny Gay
HARTLEY, John, The Uses of Digital Literacy, UQP, 311/57, Ilana Snyder
HARTNETT, Sonya, Butterfly, Hamish Hamilton, 308/28, Lisa Gorton
HASTRICH, Vicki, The Great Arch, Allen & Unwin, 308/31, Christina Hill
HAWKE, John, Australian Literature and the Symbolist Movement, University of Wollongong Press, 315/26, Jeffrey Poacher
HEAD, Dominic (ed.), The Cambridge Introduction to J.M. Coetzee, CUP, 314/9, James Ley
HEARD, Barry, Tag: A Man, a Woman, and the War to End All Wars, Scribe, 313/16, Adrian Mitchell
HEATHCOTE, Christopher, Patrick McCaughey and Sarah Thomas, Encounters with Australian Modern Art, Macmillan, 308/36, Daniel Thomas
HENDERSON, Don, Keepinitreal, Scholastic, 311/60, Anna Ryan-Punch
HERBERT, Xavier, Capricornia, HarperCollins, 311.38, Elizabeth Webby
HERGENHAN, Laurie, Ken Stewart and Michael Wilding (eds), Cyril Hopkins’ Marcus Clarke, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 315/15, Susan K. Martin
HILLS, Lia, The Beginner’s Guide to Living, Text, 310/60, Ruth Starke
HIRST, John, The Shortest History of Europe, Black Inc., 316/12, Wilfrid Prest
HOCKING, Jenny, Gough Whitlam: A Moment in History, Volume One, Miegunyah, 308/13, Neal Blewett
HOFFMANN, Brett, The Contract, Michael Joseph, 316/44, Tony Smith
HOLDEN, Colin, The Outsider: A Portrait of Ursula Hoff, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 314/44, Jaynie Anderson
HOORN, Jeanette (ed.), Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia, Miegunyah, 316/31, Jane Goodall
HOPKINS, John (with William Cottam), The Point of the Baton: Memoir of a Conductor, Lyrebird Press, 316/32, Michael Shmith
HORNUNG, Eva, Dogboy, Text, 310/10, Judith Armstrong
HORNER, David, Peter Londey and Jean Bou, Australian Peacekeeping: Sixty Years in the Field, CUP, 313/54 Alex Bellamy
HOWELL, Simmone, Everything Beautiful, Pan Macmillan, 308/31, January Jones
HULME, Mike, Why We Disagree about Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity, CUP, 316/7, Rosaleen Love
HULSE, Michael (ed.), The Warwick Review, Volume II, I No. 1 March 2009, 316/41, Paul Hetherington
HUNT, Paula, Outlaw Son: The Story of Ned Kelly, Black Dog Books, 315/62, Pam Macintyre
HUNTER WRITERS’ CENTRE, To Sculpt the Moment: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2008, Hunter Writers’ Centre, 308/53, Anthony Lynch
HYLAND, M.J., This is How, Text, 313/12, Rebecca Starford
INDYK, Ivor (ed.), Heat 19: Trappers Way, Giramondo, 312/63, Jay Daniel Thompson
INDYK, Martin, Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East, Simon & Schuster, 311/34, Jonathan Pearlman
JAIVIN, Linda, A Most Immoral Woman, Fourth Estate, 310/11, Alison Broinowski
JAMES, Clive, The Blaze of Obscurity, Picador, 317/7, Peter Craven
JAMES, Clive, Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958–2008, Picador, 317/7, Peter Craven
JAMES, Clive, The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005–2008, Picador, 317/7, Peter Craven
JAMES, Wendy, Why She Loves Him, UWAP, 312/44, Adam Rivett
JAMIESON, Kathleen Hall and Joseph N. Cappella, Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment, OUP, 308/38, Rod Tiffen
JEFFREY, Belinda, Brown Skin Blue, UQP, 313/67, Gillian Wills
JENNINGS, Paul, The Nest, Penguin, 310/58, Lisa Gorton
JOHNSON, Claudia L. and Clara Tuite (eds), A Companion to Jane Austen, Wiley-Blackwell, 315/47, Penny Gay
JOHNSON, Katherine, Pescador’s Wake, Fourth Estate, 309/44, Peter Pierce
JOHNSTON, Mark, Saving God: Religion after Idolatry, Princeton University Press (Footprint Books), 317/48, Tony Coady
JONES, Emma, The Striped World, Faber, 312/63, Anthony Lynch
JONES, Mike McColl, Graham Kennedy Treasures: Friends Remember the King, Miegunyah, 308/45, Sue Turnbull
JONES, Myfanwy, The Rainy Season, Viking, 309/46, Rebecca Starford
JONES, Rae Desmond, Blow Out, Island Press, 312/58, Greg McLaren
JONES, S.A., Red Dress Walking, Allen & Unwin, 311/63, Hannah Kent
JORDAN, Kath, Larrikin Angel: A Biography of Veronica Brady, Round House Press, 312/18, Delys Bird
JOSE, Nicholas (ed.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, Allen & Unwin, 314/7, Peter Craven
JUERS, Evelyn, House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann, Giramondo, 315/18, Michael Morley
KARPIN, Matthew, The Right, Puncher &Wattman, 316/60, Jeffrey Poacher
KARSKENS, Grace, The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 314/12, John Hirst
KEANE, John, The Life and Death of Democracy, Simon & Schuster, 316/46, Dennis Altman
KEENE, Judith, Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio During World War II, Praeger Publishers, 313/56, Jock Given
KELLY, Vivienne, Cooee: A Novel, Scribe, 310/63, Hannah Kent
KENEALLY, Cath, Jetty Road, Wakefield Press, 317/64, Christina Hill
KENEALLY, Thomas, Australians: Origins to Eureka, Volume 1, Allen & Unwin, 317/12, Ann Standish
KENEALLY, Tom, The People’s Train, Vintage, 314/36, Patrick Allington
KENNEDY, Cate, The World Beneath, Scribe, 314/32, Jo Case
KENT, Jacqueline, The Making of Julia Gillard, Viking, 317/14, Peter Mares
KEPEL, Gilles, Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, Harvard University Press (Inbooks), 309/53, Shahram Akbarzadeh
KERRY, Gordon, New Classical Music: Composing Australia, UNSW Press, 312/24, Elliott Gyger
KINSELLA, John (ed.), The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, Penguin, 310/14, David McCooey
KNIGHT, Dominic, Disco Boy, Bantam, 312/62, Paul Carter
KWAYMULLINA, Ezekiel and Sally Morgan, Sam’s Bush Journey, Little Hare, 316/65, Stephanie Owen Reeder
LANCASTER, Rosemary, Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880–1945, UWAP, 308/34, Ros Pesman
LANG, Steven, 88 Lines About 44 Women, Viking, 315/51, Jo Case
LANGFORD, Martin (ed.), Harbour City Poems: Sydney in Verse 1788–2008, Puncher & Wattman, 316/35, Gregory Kratzmann
LARBALESTIER, Justine, Liar, Allen & Unwin, 317/62, Benjamin Chandler
LARSSON, Marina, Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War, UNSW Press, 315/59, Peter Pierce
LAWRENSON, Diana and Dee Huxley, Paraphernalia’s Present, ABC Books, 312/60, Stephanie Owen Reeder
LAWSON, Airlie, Don’t Tell Eve, Vintage, 317/30, January Jones
LEA, Bronwyn, The Other Way Out, Giramondo, 309/47, Lyn McCredden
LEBLANC, André, The Red Piano, Wilkins Farago, 316/65, Stephanie Owen Reeder
LEFROY, Mike, HMAS Sydney: The Mystery of Australia’s Greatest Naval Disaster, Black Dog Books, 315/62, Pam Macintyre
LEITCH, Thomas, Film Adaptation and Its Discontents:From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ, John Hopkins University Press (Footprint Books), 316/40, John Byron
LLOYD, Genevieve, Providence Lost, Harvard University Press (Inbooks), 312/28, Paul Crittenden
LONG, John, The Big Picture Book of Human Civilisation, Allen & Unwin, 315/62, Pam Macintyre
LOOBY, Mic, Paradise Updated, Affirm Press, 316/33, Belinda Burns
LOUIE, Kam (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture, CUP, 309/54, Joan Grant
LUKIC, Tatjana, la, la, la, Five Islands Press, 314/62, Greg McLaren
McCALMAN, Iain, Darwin’s Armada, Viking, 309/7, David Lumsden
McCARTHY, Maureen, Somebody’s Crying, Allen & Unwin, 310/59, January Jones
McDONALD, John, The Art of Australia, Volume I: Exploration to Federation, Macmillan, 309/12, David Hansen
McDONALD, Willa, Warrior for Peace: Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 317/56, Brigid Rooney
McGAHAN, Andrew, Wonders of a Godless World, Allen & Unwin, 315/11, Kerryn Goldsworthy
McGEE-SIPPEL, Lorraine, Hey Mum, What’s a Half-Caste?, Magabala Books, 311/37, Christina Houen
McGHIE, Alistair, 1 2 3 N P G, National Portrait Gallery, 312/60, Stephanie Owen Reeder
McGRATH, Gaynor, Lemniscate, Transit Lounge, 308/30, Jo Case
McLAREN, John, Journey Without Arrival: The Life and Writing of Vincent Buckley, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 313/17, Gregory Kratzmann
MAGUIRE, Emily, Smoke in the Room, Picador, 316/18, Kate Holden
MAITLAND, Barry, Dark Mirror, Allen & Unwin, 314/35, Benjamin Chandler
MALOUF, David, Ransom, Knopf, 311/7, Peter Rose
MANIATY, Tony, Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor, Viking, 313/41, Jill Jolliffe
MANNE, Anne, So This Is Life: Scenes from a Country Childhood, MUP, 317/19, Gillian Whitlock
MARTIN, Ray, Ray: Stories of My Life: The Autobiography, William Heinemann Australia, 317/16, Bridget Griffen-Foley
MARR, David (ed.), The Best Australian Essays 2008, Black Inc., 308/11, Gay Bilson
MEANEY, Neville, A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1901–23: Volume Two – Australia and World Crisis, 1914–1923, Sydney University Press, 316/9, Hugh White
MENDELL, David, Obama: From Promise to Power, HarperCollins, 310/23, Brendon O’Connor
MIDDLETON, Kate, Fire Season, Giramondo, 313/64, Gig Ryan
MILLARD, Glenda, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark, Allen & Unwin, 311/60, Anna Ryan-Punch
MILLARD, Glenda, Perry Angel’s Suitcase, ABC Books, 311/61, Nigel Pearn
MILLARD, Glenda and Stephen Michael King, Applesauce and the Christmas Miracle, ABC Books, 308/54, Stephanie Owen Reeder
MILLER, Alex, Lovesong, Allen & Unwin, 316/17, Judith Armstrong
MILLS, Jennifer, The Diamond Anchor, UQP, 312/40, Kate McFadyen
MITCHELL, Leslie, Maurice Bowra: A Life, OUP, 313/48, Ian Donaldson
MORGAN, Sally with Ambelin, Blaze and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Curly and the Fent, Random House, 311/61, Nigel Pearn
MORTIMER, Lorraine, Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev, University of Minnesota Press (UniReps), 313/60, Nick Prescott
MURNANE, Gerald, Barley Patch, Giramondo, 315/10, David Musgrave
MURRAY, Les, Killing the Black Dog, Black Inc., 316/26, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
MUTARD, Bruce, The Silence, Allen & Unwin, 317/59, Chris Flynn
MYNOTT, Jeremy, Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, Princeton University Press (Footprint Books), 314/59, James Bradley
NEWSOME, Richard, The Billionaire’s Curse, Text, 315/12, Rhiannon Hart
NIALL, Brenda, The Riddle of Father Hackett: A Life in Ireland and Australia, NLA, 315/13, Morag Fraser
NICHOLAS, F.W. and J.M. Nicholas, Charles Darwin in Australia, Second Edition, CUP, 309/7, David Lumsden
NICHOLSON, John, Steam, Steel and Speed: Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia 1850s–1920s, Allen & Unwin, 309/62, Mike Shuttleworth
NICHOLSON, John, 100 Years of Petrol Power: Transport, Trade and Travel in Australia 1900–2000, Allen & Unwin, 315/63, Pam Macintyre
NIX, Garth, One Beastly Beast, Allen & Unwin, 311/61, Nigel Pearn
O’HAGAN, Andrew (ed.), A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems, Canongate, 311/52, Graham Tulloch
O’MALLEY, John W., What Happened at Vatican II, Harvard University Press (Inbooks), 314/56, Paul Crittenden
O’NEILL, Anthony, The Unscratchables, Viking, 313/13, Belinda Burns
O’NEILL, Margot, Blind Conscience, New South, 309/23, Jonathon Otis
OBAMA, Barack, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Text, 310/22, Brendon O’Connor
OBAMA, Barack, Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Text, 310/22, Brendon O’Connor
OLSSON, Kristina, The China Garden, UQP, 312/40, Kate McFadyen
ONSELEN, Peter van (ed.), Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead, MUP, 308/18, Norman Abjorensen
ORCHARD, Sonia, The Virtuoso, Fourth Estate, 309/43, Carol Middleton
ORMEROD, Jan and Carol Thompson, Molly and Her Dad, Little Hare Books, 308/54, Stephanie Owen Reeder
OVERINGTON, Caroline, Ghost Child, Bantam, 317/63, Denise O’Dea
PARK, Robert L., Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science, Princeton University Press (Footprint Books), 309/10, Tamas Pataki
PATERSON, A.B. ‘Banjo’, An Outback Marriage, Viking, 310/54, Adrian Mitchell
PATERSON, A.B. ‘Banjo’, The Shearer’s Colt, Viking, 310/54, Adrian Mitchell
PEACOCK, Matt, Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed, ABC Books, 316/45, Peter McLennan
PEARSE, Guy, Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom (Quarterly Essay 33), Black Inc., 316/7, Rosaleen Love
PEARSON, Noel, Up from the Mission: Selected Writings, Black Inc., 313/40, Jon Altman
PEARSON, David, Books as History: The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts, British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 311/55, Gillian Dooley
POLAIN, Marcella, Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems, John Leonard Press, 312/59, David Lumsden
PONS, Xavier, Messengers of Eros: Representations of Sex in Australian Writing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 315/24, Malcolm Knox
PORTER, Dorothy, The Bee Hut, Black Inc., 315/27, Gig Ryan
PORTER, Peter, Better than God, Picador, 311/29, John Kinsella
POSNOCK, Ross, Philip Roth’s Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity, Princeton University Press (Footprint Books), 309/26, James Ley
POYNTER, Marion, Nobody’s Valentine: Letters in the Life of Valentine Alexa Leeper 1900–2001, Miegunyah, 308/32, John Rickard
PRATTEN, Garth, Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, CUP, 315/57, John Connor
PREST, Wilfrid, William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century, OUP, 309/14, Michael Kirby
PRIOR, Robin, Gallipoli: The End of the Myth, UNSW Press, 312/47, Geoffrey Blainey
QUINZIO, Jeri, Of Sugar and Snow: The History of Ice Cream Making, University of California Press (Inbooks), 316/62, Gay Bilson
REES, Peter, The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War, 1914–18, Allen & Unwin, 309/60, Beverley Kingston
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, Lost! A True Tale from the Bush, NLA, 317/73, Ruth Starke
REY, Catherine (trans. Julie Rose), Stepping Out: A Novel, Giramondo, 308/29, Denise O’Dea
RIETH, Homer, Wimmera, Black Pepper, 317/72, Brian Edwards
RITTMAN, Anne, Willy and Tilly in Spongeland, Pigtale, 312/60, Stephanie Owen Reeder
ROBIN, Libby, Robert Heinsohn and Leo Joseph (eds), Boom & Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, CSIRO Publishing, 312/52, Peter Menkhorst
ROBERTSON, Geoffrey, The Statute of Liberty: How Australians Can Take Back Their Rights, Vintage, 309/17, Patrick Allington
RODGERS, Peter, Arabian Plights: The Future of the Middle East, Scribe, 310/18, Sara Dowse
ROGERS, Gregory, The Hero of Little Street, Allen & Unwin, 316/65, Stephanie Owen Reeder
ROE, Jill, Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography, Fourth Estate, 308/7, Kerryn Goldsworthy
ROONEY, Brigid, Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life, UQP, 309/56, Susan Lever
ROSENBERG, Jacob G., The Hollow Tree, Allen & Unwin, 315/8, Richard Freadman
ROTH, Philip, Indignation, Jonathan Cape, 309/29, James Ley
ROTHWELL, Nicolas, The Red Highway, Black Inc., 311/19 Gay Bilson
SANT, Andrew, Fuel, Black Pepper, 317/71, Paul Hetherington
SANT, Andrew, Speed & Other Liberties, Salt Publishing (Inbooks), 309/48, Anthony Lawrence
SAYER, Mandy (ed.), The Australian Long Story, Hamish Hamilton, 316/34, Kate McFadyen
SCHLINK, Bernhard, Guilt About the Past, UQP, 310/17, Damian Grace
SCHUDSON, Michael, Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press, Polity, 308/38, Rod Tiffen
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 23, ABC Books, 310/62, Anthony Lynch
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 24: Participation Society, Griffith University, 312/63, Anthony Lynch
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 25: After the Crisis, Text, 315/44, Jay Daniel Thompson
SCHULTZ, Julianne (ed.), Griffith Review 26: The Fiction Issue, Text, 317/44, Jay Daniel Thompson
SHAND, John, Jazz: The Australian Accent, UNSW Press, 314/41, Jon Dale
SHAWCROSS, William, Queen Elizabeth:The Queen Mother: The Official Biography, Macmillan, 316/28, Barry Everingham
SHELLAM, Tiffany, Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound, UWAP, 314/14, Robert Kenny
SHEPHERDSON, Nathan, Apples with Human Skin, UQP, 316/64, Kevin Gillam
SHERIDAN, Susan and Paul Genoni (eds), Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 317/68, Frances Devlin-Glass
SHEVTSOVA, Maria and Christopher Innes, Directors/Directing: Conversations on the Theatre, CUP, 317/52, Michael Morley
SIEBERT, Charles, Roger’s World: Toward a New Understanding of Animals, Scribe, 315/46, Kathleen Steele
SIEVWRIGHT, Ashley, The Shallow End, Clouds of Magellan, 308/31, Ken Knight
SINGER, Peter, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty, Text, 309/22, Anthony J. Langlois
SKOVRON, Alex, Autographs, Hybrid Publishers, 308/50, Richard Freadman
SMITH, Anne-Marie (ed.), Culture is … Australian Stories Across Cultures: An Anthology, Wakefield Press, 312/54, Michael Jacklin
SORNIG, David, Spiel, UWAP, 316/59, Melinda Harvey
SPARROW, Jeff (ed.), Overland 195, 313/55, Jay Daniel Thompson
SPARROW, Jeff, Killing: Misadventures in Violence, MUP, 314/51, Elisabeth Holdsworth
STAFFORD, Paul and Shane Nagle, You’re History, Mate!: Dingbats, Dropkicks, Dills, Duds and Disasters in Australian History, Random House, 309/62, Mike Shuttleworth
STARKE, Ruth, Fill Out This Application and Wait Over There, Omnibus Books, 316/67, Chris Thompson
STARKE, Ruth and Greg Holfeld, Captain Congo and the Crocodile King, Working Title Press, 308/54, Stephanie Owen Reeder
STARKE, Ruth and Greg Holfeld, Captain Congo and the Maharaja’s Monkey, Working Title Press, 316/65, Stephanie Owen Reeder
STOCKINGS, Craig, Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of ANZAC, UNSW Press, 316/55, Karl James
SUTTON, Peter, The Politics of Suffering: Indigenous Australia and the End of the Liberal Consensus, MUP, 316/42, David Trigger
TAYLOR, Andrew, The Unhaunting, Salt Publishing, 317/70, Anthony Lynch
TAYLOR, Tom and Colin Wilson, The Example, Gestalt Publishing, 313/61, Chris Flynn
TEMPLE, Peter, Truth, Text, 316/57, Chris Womersley
THOMAS, Keith, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England, OUP, 312/29, Wilfrid Prest
THORNE, Tim, I Con: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishing (Inbooks), 308/52, Anthony Lynch
THROSBY, Margaret, Talking with Margaret Throsby, Allen & Unwin, 308/40, Robert Gibson
TOMINE, Adrian, Summer Blonde, Faber, 313/61, Chris Flynn
TREDINNICK, Mark, The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, UQP, 314/46, Kevin Brophy
TUFFIELD, Aviva (ed.), New Australian Stories, Scribe, 310/56, Georgie Arnott
VALENT, Paul, In Two Minds: Tales of a Psychotherapist, UNSW Press, 316/61, Sarah Kanowski
VARGA, Susan, Headlong: A Novel, UWAP, 312/42, Carol Middleton
VOUMARD, Sonya, Political Animals, Ginninderra Press, 310/63, Susan Gorgioski
WAINWRIGHT, Robert and Paola Totaro, Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making of a Mass Murderer, Fairfax Books, 313/66, Ben Eltham
WALKER, Don, Shots, Black Inc., 309/32, Dean Biron
WALKER, Jason, Billy Thorpe’s Time on Earth, Allen & Unwin, 317/61, Mark Gomes
WALKER, Shirley, The Ghost at the Wedding: A True Story, Viking, 313/46, Brenda Niall
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris (ed.), Vincent Buckley: Collected Poems, John Leonard Press, 313/17, Gregory Kratzmann
WALSH, Richard (ed.), Great Australian Eulogies, Allen & Unwin, 308/53, Toby Davidson
WELSHMAN, Kate, Posse, Random House, 310/60, Ruth Starke
WHALEY, George, Leo ‘Rumpole’ McKern: The Accidental Actor, New South, 310/51, Brian McFarlane
WILCOX, Craig, Red Coat Dreamng: How Colonial Australia Embraced the British Army, CUP, 317/66, Robin Prior
WILLIAMS, Rowan, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, Continuum, 311/25 Judith Armstrong
WILLIAMSON, Kristin, David Williamson: Behind the Scenes, Viking, 312/15, Michael Morley
WILSON, Tony and Sue deGennaro, The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas, Scholastic Australia, 312/60, Stephanie Owen Reeder
WOLFER, Diane, Lighthouse Girl, Fremantle Press, 311/61, Nigel Pearn
WOLPERT, Lewis, How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells, Faber and Faber, 315/60, Ian Gibbins
YALATA and Oak Valley Communities with Christobel Mattingley, Maralinga: The Anangu Story, Allen & Unwin, 312/61, Stephanie Owen Reeder
ŽIŽEK, Slavoj, Violence: Six Sideways Reflections, Profile Books (Allen & Unwin), 310/26, Kevin Brophy.
ZOLIN, Miriam (ed.), Extempore 2, Extempore, 317/49, Jon Dale
ZUBOK, Vladislav, Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, Harvard University Press (Inbooks), 315/53, Judith Armstrong

FEATURES INDEX 2009

BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 317/20
ALTMAN, Dennis, 317/20
ARMSTRONG, Judith, 317/20
BIRNS, Nicholas, 317/20
BRADLEY, James, 317/20
CRAVEN, Peter, 317/21
FRASER, Morag, 317/21
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 317/21
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, 317/21
GORTON, Lisa, 317/22
GRIFFEN-FOLEY, Bridget, 317/22
HETHERINGTON, Paul, 317/22
KENT, Jacqueline, 317/22
KINSELLA, John, 317/22
LEY, James, 317/23
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 317/23
McFARLANE, Brian, 317/23
MARES, Peter, 317/24
MARR, David, 317/24
NIALL, Brenda, 317/24
PIERCE, Peter, 317/24
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 317/24

BEST BOOKS: CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT
LINDEN, Maya, 317/25
MACINTYRE, Pam, 317/25
NIEUWENHUIZEN, Agnes, 317/25
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, 317/25
SHUTTLEWORTH, Mike, 317/25

CALIBRE PRIZE
BROPHY, Kevin, ‘“What’re yer lookin’ at yer fuckin’ dog?”: Violence and Fear in Žižek’s Post-political Neighbourhood’, 310/26
GOODALL, Jane, ‘Footprints’, 310/37

CHILDREN’S FICTION
PEARN, Nigel, ‘Full of Knowing’, 311/61
RYAN-PUNCH, Anna, ‘Turf Wars’, 311/60

CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION
Macintyre, Pam, ‘Critique for the Young’; 315/62

COMMENTARY
BIRNS, Nicholas, ‘“So Close and Yet so Far”: Reading Australia across the Pacific’, 309/50
CRAVEN, Peter, ‘The Sheer Power of Limelight: Clive James’s Undimmed Poetry and the Television Years’, 317/7
DIXON, Robert, ‘Curating Oz Lit: Creating the Australian Classics Library’, 316/20
FRASER, Morag, ‘“A Little Bit of Revolution”: Bizarre Times in the United States’, 317/32
GILLIES, Malcolm, ‘The Priced and the Priceless: Humanities and Philanthropy in Dark Times’, 312/34
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, ‘“Ukulula”: Obama-Euphoria in Lancashire’, 308/26
HASSALL, Tony, ‘Vanishing Wunderkind: The Great Oeuvre of the Enigmatic Stow’, 314/29
JOSE, Nicholas, ‘Australian Literature and the Missing Body: The General Editor of a Major New Anthology Describes its Genesis and Scope’, 313/22
KENT, Jacqueline, ‘The Unsentimental Bloke: Kenneth Cook and Wake in Fright’, 316/37
LEY, James, ‘“I am the kind of person”: Philip Roth and Indignation’, 309/26
LOVE, Rosaleen, ‘Treasure Hunt’, 311/15
McFARLANE, Brian, ‘J.M. Coetzee and Philip Roth on Screen’, 312/13
McFARLANE, Brian, ‘Resisting Tarantino: A Seminal Year in Australian Cinema’, 317/45
McQUEEN, Humphrey, ‘“In for ‘Higher Art’ I’d Go”: At the National Portrait Gallery’, 311/41
MATTHEWS, Brian, ‘A Lawson for Our Times’, 311/11
MITCHELL, Adrian, ‘The Man who Kept his Hat on: The Novels of “Banjo” Paterson’, 310/54
MOYAL, Ann, ‘Mediterranean Man: Journeys with Alan Moorehead’, 315/37
O’CONNOR, Brendon, ‘Reading Obama’, 310/22
SHARP, Ronald A., ‘Mateship, Friendship and National Identity’, 316/48
STRAUSS, Jennifer, ‘“Sing, Memory”: A New Edition of the Inimitable Gwen Harwood’, 315/41
TULLOCH, Graham, ‘The Bard’s the Bard for a’that: Robert Burns in Australia’, 311/52
WALKER, Shirley, ‘Bitter Fruit: Ruth Park’s Trilogy of Want and Human Spirit’, 313/25
WEBBY, Elizabeth, ‘Revisiting Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia’, 311/38

OPEN PAGE
DE KRETSER, Michelle, 313/68
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 316/68
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, 317/76
LE, Nam, 314/64
MILLER, Alex, 315/64

PICTURE BOOKS
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, ‘Exploring Traditions’, 308/54
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, ‘Satisfying Children’s Appetites’, 312/60
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, ‘Graphic Adventures’, 316/65
SHUTTLEWORTH, Mike, ‘History Waits’, 309/62

POEMS
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘The Aquarium’, 309/40
BEVERIDGE, Judith, ‘Rain’, 312/10
BISHOP, Judith, ‘Arrival’, 316/56
BOEY, Kim Cheng, ‘La Mian in Melbourne’, 315/25
BRADLEY, James, ‘Bodysurfing’, 310/19
DEANE, Joel, ‘Bushfire Elegy’, 311/23
EAVES, Will, ‘Silverflash’, 308/49
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘Rembrandt with Seagulls’, 317/29
FARRELL, Michael, ‘say …’ 311/24
GALLAGHER, Katherine, ‘South Beach’, 317/17
GORTON, Lisa, ‘The Storm Glass’, 309/38
HOFMANN, Michael, ‘Judith Wright Arts Centre’, 316/36
JAMES, Clive, ‘Monja Blanca’, 315/20
KINSELLA, John, ‘Wreck at Coogee Beach (1905–)’, 313/39
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Reading Ted Kooser in the Medical Centre Waiting Room’, 314/27
LOMER, Kathryn, ‘The Dark Zone’, 309/37
LUCAS, Rose ‘Yellow Jacket: Vespula maculifrons’, 309/35
MALONE, Angela, ‘The Reed Pen’, 309/39
PORTER, Dorothy, ‘Travel’, 308/35
PORTER, Peter, ‘Uncommitted Annotation’, 311/31
ROSE, Peter, ‘Gladstone’, 314/52
RYAN, Tracy, ‘Lost Property’, 309/36
SANT, Andrew, ‘The Other Life’, 317/53
SHAPCOTT, Thomas, ‘To Music’, 316/44
TAYLOR, Andrew, ‘Maxi, goodbye’, 312/23

SHORT STORIES
GOLDSWORTHY, Peter, ‘The Bet’, 313/28
O’REILLY, Paddy, ‘The Good Boy’, 312/31