Browsing No 253 - August 2003 by Issue Date
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Bestsellers / Subscription.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)This item contains the July 2003 Bestellers list and Subsciption page from this issue. -
Advances, Contents, Letters, Imprints and Contributors.
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Hard Hooves on an Old Soil. "Wool: The Australian Story" by Richard Woldendorp, Roger McDonald and Amanda Burdon. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)The extraordinary photographer Richard Woldendorp joins writers Roger McDonald and Amanda Burdon in "Wool", a sumptuous presentation that celebrates with every glossy page. But is "Wool" a celebration or a wake? Why publish ... -
Apprentice. [poem]
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Life Giving Lies. "My Life as a Fake" by Peter Carey. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)Anchored in the well-known facts of the Malley hoax, 'My Life As a Fake' tells the story of Sarah Wode-Douglass who, on a trip to Malaysia, chances upon Chubb reading a rare copy of Rilke’s 'Sonette an Orpheus'. Hopelessly ... -
The War Against Others. "The Tyrant’s Novel" by Tom Keneally. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)The book opens with 'The Visitor’s Preface.' The person in question is a writer who is given permission to enter a detention centre on the outskirts of Sydney where he meets an asylum seeker called Alan Sheriff. But first, ... -
The Great Pessimist. "The Pope’s Battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split" by Ross Fitzgerald (with Adam Carr and William J. Dealey). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)Ross Fitzgerald's book is timely, for two reasons. Five years having passed since the death of B.A. Santamaria, an appropriate distance stands between the immediate obituaries and a better perspective on his impact on ... -
A Social Pulse. "The Secret Burial" by Penelope Sell and "The Alphabet of Light and Dark" by Danielle Wood. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)The bush gothic of Barbara Baynton shapes the world of this promising first novel from Penelope Sell. "The Secret Burial" deals with the brutal coming of age of fifteen-year-old Elise. The setting is a harsh, drought-stricken ... -
Drab Caricatures. "The Premiers of Queensland" by Denis Murphy et al (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)Queensland's history is different in many respects from the older states, and similar only to Western Australia in features such as its vastness, its relative emptiness and its history as the last of the ‘frontier’ states. ... -
Partridge Wings. "North of Nowhere, South of Loss" by Janet Turner-Hospital. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)Janet Turner-Hospital fans, possibly reminded of their affection for her by the recent publication of her latest novel, "Due Preparations for the Plague" will find this anthology an interesting exercise in retrospection. ... -
The Good Old School. "A Short History of the University of Melbourne" by Stuart Macintyre and R. J. W. Selleck and "The Shop: The University of Melbourne" by R. J. W. Selleck. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)R.J.W. Selleck’s "The Shop" - along with his "Short History", co-authored with Stuart Macintyre - is welcome evidence that this once insular institution is developing the capacity for self-analysis that it needs if it is ... -
Screen Tests and Digital Dead-ends. "Turning Off the Television: Broadcasting’s Uncertain Future" by Jock Given and "Media Mania: Why Our Fear of Modern Media is Misplaced" by Hugh Mackay. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)At a recent Australian Broadcasting Authority conference, federal communications minister Senator Richard Alston conceded that the early adoption of digital television in Australia had been 'modest'. More impartial observers ... -
Peculiar Mercy. "A History of Criminal Law in New South Wales: The Colonial Period 1788-1900" by G. D. Woods. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)The book is built around the themes of savagery within the justice system; the entrenchment of the rule of law and the development of legal principle; and the discretionary application of clemency within the criminal law. ... -
Exilic Colour. "Summer Visit: Three Novellas" and "The Island/ L’Île/ To Nisi" by Antigone Kefala. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)Readers who share Helen Nickas's view that Antigone Kefala's fiction forms 'a continuous narrative which depicts and explores the various stages of an exilic journey' may be pleased to find more instalments in her fourth ... -
The God of Small Islands. "The Trickster" by Jane Downing. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)This story is told from a number of points of view. One of them is that of Joy, a woman with impeccable light Green political credentials, a job in a suburban library in Canberra and a mother who seems to have a clearer ... -
The Missing Captain. "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Robert Holden. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)The perils of a certain kind of historical writing are painfully demonstrated in "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea", billed as 'the life of Australian whaling captain, William Chamberlain: a tale of abduction, adventure and ... -
Commentary.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)An address by Sir William Deane at the University of Queensland on 29 May 2003. -
Touching the Sides. "Rights for Aborigines" by Bain Attwood. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)John Howard, someone has remarked, deserves to be remembered for his shabby key to political success: he gave Australians permission to leave their consciences in the cupboard. Paul Keating, who knew what was coming with ... -
A Thousand Small Tragedies. "The Meeting of the Waters: The Hindmarsh Island Affair" by Margaret Simons. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)Two hundred years of interference are coming home to roost in an environmental disaster. And Margaret Simons's book contains some harsh implications for what this might mean to the Ngarrindjeri people, the heart of whose ... -
A Grand Disrobing. "Bob Carr: The Reluctant Leader" by Marilyn Dodkin. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-08)Over the past few years, Bob Carr has been tweaking the veils that shroud his inner self. In essays, speeches and book reviews, he has teased and titillated us with glimpses of his diary and extracts from his unpublished ...