Browsing No 247 - December 2002 / January 2003 by Title
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Best Books of the Year.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)This item outlines personal selections for Best Books of the Year, according to Don Anderson, Peter Bishop, Neal Blewett, Ian Britain, Alison Broinowski, Peter Craven, Morag Fraser, Raimond Gaita, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Peter ... -
Best Children's / YA Books of the Year.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)This item outlines personal selections for Best Children's / Young Adult Books of the Year, according to Archie Fusillo, Sonya Hartnett, Pam Macintyre, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen, Robyn Sheahan-Bright and Ruth Starke. -
Bigponds of Memory. Review of "Between Mexico and Poland" by Lily Brett.
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)Lily Brett is a beguiler. Little by little, she draws you into her world until you become as fascinated by it as she is. In this series of recollections of such places as Mexico, New York and Poland, she intertwines past ... -
Carlon's Gift. "Crime of Silence" and "The Unquiet Night" by Patricia Carlon. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)It is the fashion, when discussing Patricia Carlon's thrillers, to claim that she has been shamefully ignored in her home country. So what? If Miss Carlon (1927–2002) had been a genius of the running track or swimming pool ... -
Chosen Ones. "Raised by Frank" by Dave O'Neil and Kiran Morris, "Could a Tyrannosaurus Play Table Tennis?" by Andrew Plant, "Squeak Street" by Emily Rodda and Andrew McLean and "Gordon's Got a Snookie" by Lisa Shanahan and Wayne Harris. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)When a children's picture book first comes into the home, there is no way of telling whether it is going to be 'the one' - the one that will be read and reread; that will have pictures drawn about it and songs made up about ... -
Cook's Crumpet. "Into the Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)"Into the Blue" is a rich mix of history and travelogue, sometimes too rich for easy digestion. It is long, for one thing, and the twists in mood and tone can be a little wearying. Although Horwitz could not track every ... -
Filling a Niche. "Walking Naked" by Alyssa Brugman, "The Barrumbi Kids" by Leonie Norrington and "The Garden of Empress Cassia" by Gabrielle Wang. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)For several years, Judith Ridge has bemoaned the dearth of substantial, challenging Australian novels for 'middle years' readers. During a recent stint working in a specialist children's bookshop, she was frequently asked ... -
Fraser's Journey. "Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us" by Malcolm Fraser. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)In "Common Ground" - an impressive, if unscintillating, collection of (mainly recent) speeches and added commentaries - Fraser is, characteristically, untroubled by the apparent problem of shifting political identity. ... -
Free Cabs and Lost Zions. "Goodbye Babylon: Further Journeys in Time and Politics" by Bob Ellis. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)Bob Ellis is the quintessential Labor groupie, and "Goodbye Babylon" the latest instalment in the saga of his love affair with the ALP, which began with "The Things We Did Last Summer", a slim and evocative volume, published ... -
God. [poem]
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Hamlet, Semar and The Godfather. "Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian President" by Greg Barton, "The Politics of Indonesia (Second Edition)" by Damien Kingsbury and "Reformasi: The Struggle for Power in Post-Soeharto Indonesia" by Kevin O'Rourke. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)Have the Bali bombings completely changed our view of Indonesia? Although obviously not designed to do so, these three books provide necessary background on how such an atrocity might be possible in the near-anarchic ... -
Imprints, Contents, Contributors, Letters, Advances and Subscription.
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The Irish in Australia. "First Fleet to Federation: Irish Supremacy in Colonial Australia" by Jarlath Ronayne. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)It was inevitable that, sooner or later, someone would write a book celebrating the achievements of the Protestant Irish in Australia. Books commemorating the part played by the Catholic Irish culminated in Patrick O'Farrell's ... -
Kate Grenville's Enduring Witches. "Bearded Ladies / Dreamhouse" and "Joan Makes History" by Kate Grenville. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)Kate Grenville has made a continuing contribution to Australian literature worth celebrating. Her work has been consistently revealing, interesting and entertaining. She has won the Australian/Vogel, the Victorian Premier's ... -
Knowing Your Budgie. "City and Stranger" by Aileen Kelly, "In Your Absence: Poems 1994 - 2002" by Stephen McInerney and "Flying Blind" by Deborah Westbury. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)This is Kelly's second book after her prizewinning "Coming up for Light" (1994). The poetry seems more complex, more ambitious, no less poised and measured, but less convinced of William Carlos Williams's troublesome dictum, ... -
Lest We Forget. "The Oromo in Exile: From the Horn of Africa to the Suburbs of Australia" by Greg Gow, "From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration" by James Jupp and "Mixed Matches: Interracial Marriage in Australia" by Jane Duncan Owen. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)The arresting cover of James Jupp's important "From White Australia to Woomera" features the distraught faces of the children of detained asylum seekers. As the blurb puts it: 'There never has been a greater need for a ... -
Medea's Bathhouse. "The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing" by Graeme Aitken (ed). [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)This is a strange assortment of pieces. To someone who doesn't move in any gay community, the anthology's chief problem is its fissiparousness. There has to be a distinction between gay writing and writing by authors who ... -
Melancholy Sentinel. "Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession" by Barry Hill. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)It seems to be only a couple of years ago that Devlin-Glass' students declared gender and race to be the 'hot' topics in culture. Now, she confidently predicts, they will relegate gender (still acknowledging its importance) ... -
Mobile Icons. "The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier" by Brigid Hains and "Australia's Flying Doctors" by Roger McDonald and Richard Woldendorp. [review]
(Australian Book Review, 2002-12)Australia's frontier legend is alive and well, as is John Flynn's contribution to it in these two new books. "In Australia's Flying Doctors", Richard Woldendorp's glorious photographs celebrate a medical service that reaches ...