Crime fiction offers various pleasures but rarely those of innovation, and that is the case with these three very different books from three veterans of the genre — familiar pleasures. "Degrees of Connection" is a police ...

Anyone who heard Inga Clendinnen’s 1999 Boyer Lectures or who has listened to her in any other way will hear her voice clearly in this book: contemplative, reflective, warm, gently paced. "Dancing with Strangers" seems to ...

"Homecoming" is a significant novel in terms of its author’s trajectory. A novel of ideas with a fully Australian focus, it moves him from the niche of slightly magical-realist Indian tales into the mainstream. It is bold, ...

As Mark McKenna and Wayne Hudson point out in their introduction to this anthology of writings, speeches and transcripts on the inglorious republic, there is no one single thing called ‘Australian republicanism’. The cause ...

This article is a review of various Young Adult Non-Fiction books, including: Bronwyn Blake, "Julia My Sister"; Jane Carroll, "Thambaroo"; Warren Flynn "Return Ticket"; Doug MacLeod, "Tumble Turn"; James Moloney, "Black ...

We now seem to be producing large-scale, popular books that are not in themselves literary fiction, though they aspire to be and represent the efforts of people who care about literature. If you accept "Seven Types" as an ...

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The late Graham Little’s review of "Defying Gravity" appeared in the April 1997 issue of "ABR". Allen & Unwin was the original publisher.

"Beyond the Ladies Lounge" is a solid work of social history, but overall it left me disappointed. It remains chained to the thesis it once was, while it has been marketed as a readable popular history. This may seem overly ...

In her searing novel, "The Colour of Walls", Janet Kelly writes about child abuse and incest with clarity and understanding. The subject matter alone is disturbing, and the sense of cyclical hopelessness is both enduring ...