Browsing No 250 - April 2003 by Issue Date
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The Awful Truth. [poem]
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The World As It Is. "The Hot Seat: Reflections on Diplomacy From Stalin's Death to the Bali Bombings" by Richard Woolcott. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)One of the puzzles of Australia’s diplomatic service is the comparative lack of informative memoirs by senior diplomats. Of the sixteen heads of Foreign Affairs mentioned in this book, only three apart from Richard Woolcott ... -
The Next Wave? "Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens" by Amanda Lohrey. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Amanda Lohrey is a political scientist and novelist with a real interest in the Greens. If you want a comprehensive short history of the Greens movement, an account of the significant events that have formed it, a study ... -
Cappo Commies. "New Faces of Leadership" by Amanda Sinclair and Valerie Wilson and "Executive Material: Nine of Australia's Top CEOs in Conversation With Richard Walsh" by Richard Walsh. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)"The Economist" is the Pepole's Republic of Capitalism's "Das Kapital". But other reading matter for PRC citizens' educational entertainment includes the recently released thesis/book "New Faces of Leadership", by Amanda ... -
Keep It Honest. "Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience" by Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster (eds). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)How violent was the Australian frontier? At the moment, this is the biggest debate in Australian history. As most would know, the question has gained national attention largely through the efforts of Keith Windschuttle ... -
Have We Got Enough? "Over and Out: Cricket Umpires and Their Stories" by John Gascoigne (ed) and "The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season" by Gideon Haigh. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)When you bump into people who know Gideon Haigh - and that happens a lot in Geelong - they will tell you about his encyclopedic knowledge of cricket, his dedication to detail and his casualness with money. He also has a ... -
A Small Ouvre. "Peggy Glanville-Hicks: A Transposed Life" by James Murdoch. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Peggy Glanville-Hicks ranks as one of the few Australian composers whose international training and reputation mean that she remains vastly more appreciated outside Australia than within the shores of her native land. A ... -
Bestsellers / Subsciption.
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)This issue includes the March 2003 Bestsellers and the subscription information from this issue. -
Great Upstarts. "That Magnificant 9th: An Illustrated History of the 9th Australian Division 1940-1946" by Mark Johnston and "Alamein: The Australian Story" by Mark Johnston and Peter Stanley. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)At 9.40pm on 23rd October 1942, in the North African desert, the heavens lit up with myriad flashes from more than one thousand guns, and the roar of the British Commonwealth Eighth Army's opening barrage rolled out towards ... -
Convict Flash. "Convict Words: Language in Early Colonial Australia" by Amanda Laugeson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Amanda Lagueson's "Convict Words" is a dictionary of the characteristic or salient words of early colonial discourse, the lexis of the convict system and transportation, which survived until 1840 in New South Wales, 1852 ... -
Resolution Was All. "One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway" by Ian Denys Peek and "If This Should Be Farewell: A Family Separated by War" by Adrian Wood (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)These two unusual books reflect on aspects of the prisoner-of-war experience in Singapore, Thailand and Burma during World War II that have not been much canvassed in Australia. "One Fourteenth of an Elephant", Ian Denys ... -
No Stopping. "Beyond 40: Celebrating 40 Years of Dreams" by Jeff Busby (photographer) and "A Collector's Book of Australian Dance" by Michelle Potter. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Here are two sumptuously produced keepsakes serving very different purposes. "Beyond 40" describes itself as 'Forty Years of Dreams', but actually offers one year’s worth of images that the Australian Ballet wants to ... -
Pearls of Exploitation. "Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-Century Western Australia" by Penelope Hetherington. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Penelope Hetherington has found that in nineteenth-century Western Australian colonial society childhood is not easily delineated. Her solution to this problem of definition is to look at how childhood was defined in ... -
Where the Sea Meets the Desert. [poem]
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Flying to Maturity. "Baby Bear Goes to the Park" by Lorette Broekstra, "Pigs Don't Fly!" by Jackie French, illus. Matt Cosgrove, "Jump, Baby!" by Penny Matthews, illus. Dominique Falla and "The Dragon Machine" by Helen Ward, illus. Wayne Anderson. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Pigs don't fly, but dragons and kites do, and possums can jump, which is perhaps just as scary if you're a little one. These four picture books deal with flight, their authors and illustrators using more or less imaginary ... -
Coda. [poem]
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Tendering the Cup. "Collected Poems 1943-1995" by Gwen Harwood. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)W.H. Auden, following Samuel Butler, thought that 'the true test of imagination is the ability to name a cat', and plenty of people, poets and others have believed this: to recast a dictum of Christ's, if you can't be ... -
Being There. "Mangroves" by Laurie Duggan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Poems are like mangroves. They lodge and grow in the mind, becoming part of us, just as these plants take root in estuarine silt. Even on the page, there is sometimes a resemblance. As its title suggests, Laurie Duggan’s ... -
Pastiche, Not a Homage. "The Lamplighter" by Anthony O'Neill. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)"The Lamplighter" certainly has the look and feel of a nineteenth-century novel, but could it really be read as one? In preparing this review, I reread "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886). What strikes the reader almost immediately ... -
Getting to the Point. "The Point" by Marion Halligan. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2003-04)Marion Halligan's latest novel should be a success. It is a continuation and concentration of themes, characters and settings that have consistently engaged her in a considerable body of work. "The Point" is full of Halligan ...