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REVIEWS INDEX 2010

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


FEATURES INDEX 2010

ABR FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN NOVELS, 318/24

ABR POETRY PRIZE
FAHEY, Diane, ‘The Hummingbird Suite’, 320/36
LAWRENCE, Anthony, ‘Domestic Emergencies’, 320/40
PATTINSON, Jillian, ‘Estuary’, 320/39
*SALOM, Philip, ‘Here Come the Missionaries’, 320/38
SANZ, Ynes, ‘Taken as Required’, 320/35

*Winner of the ABR Poetry Prize

ABR SHORT STORY COMPETITION
TAKOLANDER, Maria, ‘A Roānkin Philosophy of Poetry’, 327/46

AUDIO DISC REVIEWS
BRITISH LIBRARY, The, The Spoken Word: British Writers, BBC, 319/42, Brian McFarlane
CAREY, Peter, Parrot and Olivier in America, Bolinda Audio, 324/50, Brian McFarlane
DAVIES, Luke, Totem Poem (No. 15), 321/62, Lisa Gorton
FINE POETS, Volume 1: The Bush Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
FINE POETS, Volume 2: The Campfire Yarns of Henry Lawson, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
FINE POETS, Volume 3: The Sentimental Bloke, The Poems of C.J. Dennis, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
FINE POETS, Volume 4: The Battlefield Poems of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, Fine Poets Collection, 323/39, Adrian Mitchell
HEMENSLEY, Kris, My Life in Theatre (NO. 18), 321/63, Lisa Gorton
ST JOHN, Madeleine, The Women in Black, Bolinda Audio, 324/50, Brian McFarlane
TEMPLE, Peter, Truth, Bolinda Audio, 324/50, Brian McFarlane
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, The Domestic Sublime (NO. 17), 321/63, Lisa Gorton
ZWICKY, Fay, The Witnesses (NO. 19), 321/63, Lisa Gorton

BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ALLINGTON, Patrick, 327/38
ALTMAN, Dennis, 327/38
ANDERSON, Don, 327/38
BIRD, Carmel, 327/38
BIRNS, Nicholas, 327/38
BROINOWSKI, Alison, 327/39
CASE, Jo, 327/39
DAVIS, Glyn, 327/39
DOOLEY, Gillian, 327/39
GOLDSMITH, Andrea, 327/39
GORTON, Lisa, 327/40
HALL, Rodney, 327/40
HOLDEN, Kate, 327/40
KENT, Jacqueline, 327/41
LEY, James, 327/41
McCAUGHEY, Patrick, 327/41
McFARLANE, Brian, 327/41
NIALL, Brenda, 327/42
PIERCE, Peter, 327/42
TRUMBLE, Angus, 327/42
WILLIAMSON, Geordie, 327/42

BEST BOOKS: CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT
ON, Thuy, 327/43
REEDER, Stephanie Owen, 327/43
SHUTTLEWORTH, Mike, 327/43
STARKE, Ruth, 327/43

CALIBRE PRIZE
HALLAHAN, Lorna, ‘On Being Odd’, 321/24
HANSEN, David, ‘Seeing Truganini’, 321/45

COMMENTARY
ARMSTRONG, Judith, ‘A Curious Night at the Wheeler Centre’, 325/16
BIRNS, Nicholas, ‘Antipodes and the Dark Hemisphere: Beyond the Bilateral?’, 320/42
CAREY, Janene, ‘Retreat to the Castle’, 322/51
CRAVEN, Peter, ‘Baby Dante and the Apocalypse: Filming Cormac McCarthy’s The Road ’, 319/11
DAVIDSON, Jim, ‘Bouncing on the Trampoline of Fact: Biography and the Historical Imagination’, 323/42
DESSAIX, Robert, ‘“Letters to an Unknown Friend”’, 322/36
FRASER, Morag, ‘Maddened Times in the USA’, 327/14
GOODALL, Jane, ‘Phoneys and the Dash Man: The Hypnotic Voice of J.D. Salinger’, 319/34
HARRIS, Margaret and Elizabeth Webby, ‘Patrick White’s Papers’, 327/62
HENSON, Bill, ‘Millennial Slippage: Honouring the Paradox and the Majesty of Art’, 326/27
HERGENHAN, Laurie, ‘“Mindscapes of the Artist”: Visiting Randolph Stow, 323/25
HOLLIER, Nathan, ‘Alpha and Omega’, 325/62
KING, Natalie, ‘Carol Jerrems: “Love is the Key Word”’, 326/48
LEY, James, ‘Everything in Motion: Radical Inclusiveness in a New Literary History of the USA’, 319/19
McFARLANE, Brian, ‘Finding Ourselves in Australian Films’, 323/48
MENZ, Christopher, ‘Lightness and Clarity: A Welcome Extension to the National Gallery of Australia’, 326/7
OLUBAS, Brigitta, ‘“At Home in More than One place”: Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Shirley Hazzard’, 320/9
PEARLMAN, Jonathan, ‘Furore in Israel: Suspicion and Defensiveness after the “Freedom Flotilla”’, 323/14
RICKARD, John, ‘The Tyranny of Text?: Different Readings at the Melbourne International Arts Festival’, 327/53
ROSE, Peter, ‘“Elusive Colt of a Dark Horse”: The Peculiar Charms of E.M. Forster’, 327/18
SHERIDAN, Susan, ‘Tirra Lirra and Beyond: Jessica Anderson’s Truthful Fictions’, 324/47
STEELE, Peter, ‘Littoral Truth: Peter Porter (1929–2010)’, 322/15

EXTRACT
HALL, Rodney, popeye never told you: childhood memories of the war, Pier 9, 321/16
McFARLANE, Brian, Real and Reel, Sid Harta, 325/41

OPEN PAGE
BIRD, Carmel, 319/64
D’ALPUGET, Blanche, 324/72
GOLDSWORTHY, Anna, 321/68
GORTON, Lisa, 323/72
HARTNETT, Sonya, 320/64
KENEALLY, Tom, 325/72
MUSGRAVE, David, 322/68
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, 318/68

POEMS
ANDREWS, Chris, ‘By Accident’, 318/41
BISHOP, Judith, ‘The Blind Minotaur’, 326/47
CHONG, Eileen, ‘After Pintauro’, 327/35
EAVES, Will, ‘100,000,000 AD’, 327/61
EDGAR, Stephen, ‘The Haunted Pane’, 324/61
FARRELL, Michael, ‘dream aboriginal family at buckingham palace’, 319/26
FEALY, Susan, ‘Flute of Milk’, 325/68
HILL, Barry, ‘Plum Juice’, 325/47
JAMES, Clive, ‘Silent Sky’, 323/53
KINSELLA, John, ‘Zoo Visits’, 318/23
McMASTER, Rhyll, ‘In the Inner West’, 319/62
PORTER, Peter, ‘What I Have Written I Have Written’, 322/17
ROSE, Peter, ‘The Marbles’, 324/46
RYAN, Tracy, ‘Cobwebs’, 321/15
SALOM, Philip, ‘Lamarckian Thoughts of the Father’, 322/43
SHAPCOTT, Thomas, ‘Storm over Port Phillip’, 319/36
TAKOLANDER, Maria, ‘No man’s land’, 320/48
WALLACE-CRABBE, Chris, ‘Mayhem’, 321/21

SHORT STORIES
WHITTING, Michael, ‘She Brings the Light In’, 319/43