Alison Broinowski
The Sweet and Simple Kind: A novel Of Sri Lanka by Yasmine Gooneratne
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Bad Days in Basra: My turbulent times as Britain’s man in southern Iraq by Hilary Synnott
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Roma the First: A biography of Dame Roma Mitchell by Susan Magarey and Kerry Round
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Kofi Annan: A man of peace in a world of war by Stanley Meisler
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Us and Them: A journalist’s investigation of media, Muslims and the Middle East by Peter Manning
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To celebrate the best books of 2004 Australian Book Review invited contributors to nominate their favourite titles. Contributors included Dennis Altman, Brenda Niall, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Morag Fraser and Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
... (read more)Never far from one’s mind these days, the events of September 11, 2001, and their direct aftermath in Afghanistan and elsewhere, had to be prominent in this month’s issue of ABR, such is their complex resonance and ubiquitous iconography. To complement Morag Fraser’s essay in this issue on the consequences of ‘September 11’ for civic ...