• Who Invented This Rule Anyway? "Sibyl's Cave" by Catherine Padmore and "The Submerged Cathedral" by Charlotte Wood. [review] 

  Goldsworthy, Anna (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This article is a review of two new novels by Catherine Padmore and Charlotte Wood.

• A Small Town At War: The Drouin Collection 

  Hetherington, Michelle (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This article is a summary of a collection of photographs taken by Jim Fitzpatrick for the Australian Department of Information during World War Two. The photographs depict daily scenes in the small town of Drouin, and are ...

• Preserves and Presences. [journal review] 

  Tucker, Robyn (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This article is a review of various current journals, including: Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke (eds), "Cultural Studies Review: Charlatans, 9:2"; Julianne Schultz (ed), "Griffith Review: Webs of Power, 2004:3"; Ian Britain ...

• Young Heroes in Fantastic Settings. "The Winter Door" by Isobelle Carmody, "Shaedow Master" by Justin D'Ath and "Grim Tuesday" by Garth Nix. [review] 

  Braithwaite, Elizabeth (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  Setting is a particularly important feature in fantasy texts. One of these three fantasy novels for young adults is set in a self-contained world, while the other two have their main character travel from the ‘real’ world ...

• A Sense of the Past. [review] 

  Lees, Stella (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This article is a review of Young Adult Non-Fiction, including: Robyn Annear, "Fly a Rebel Flag: The Battle at Eureka"; Dyan Blacklock illus. David Kennett, "The Roman Army"; Jacqui Grantford, "Shoes News"; and Karl ...

• Bestsellers/Subscription. 

  Unknown author (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  April Bestsellers 2003, and Subscription Form page of this issue.

• Straight Reporting. "The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking" by Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin. [review] 

  Haigh, Gideon (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This article is a review of "The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking" by Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin. George Ernest 'Chinese' Morrison (1862-192) was a photojournalist and well-known ...

• Batmania. "Bright Planet" by Peter Mews. [review] 

  Dooley, Gillian Mary (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  "Bright Planet" is a wry, laconic book; bold, entertaining and slightly mannered. Mews’s vocabulary is vivid and his epithets at times startlingly original. It is a kind of sustained exercise in bravado; Mews is playing ...

• Bronco Ride. "A Lot of Croc: An Urban Bush Legend" by Kate Finlayson. [review] 

  Varga, Susan (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This book’s strengths and weaknesses are on a big scale, and that alone makes Finlayson a writer worth watching. The portrait of the Territory — an utterly different universe from the Australia most of us know — is ...

• The Great Obituarist. "Art & Life" by Philip Jones. [review] 

  Rose, Peter John (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This article is a review of "Art and Life", the memoir of Philip Jones.

• Archetypal Landscapes. "The White Earth" by Andrew McGahan. [review] 

  Bradley, James (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  What McGahan’s many admirers will make of "The White Earth" is not clear. Those expecting a novel that continues to explore the sorts of territory marked out in his earlier novels may well be unsettled by the novel’s uneasy ...

• Something about Mystery. "The New Dark Age" by Joan London. [review] 

  Hetherignton, Paul (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  Western Australian writer Joan London’s recently released collected stories, "The New Dark Age", combines most of the stories originally published in two slender volumes by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1986 and 1993, ...

• Imperfect Days. "Levin's God" by Roger Wells. [review] 

  Nichols, David (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  "Levin's God" is a two-part epic. The first half is a take on the Australian rock scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Singer-guitarist Levin Hoffman, on the strength of what people say are ‘great songs’, rapidly takes ...

• Love and the Wall. "Snowleg" by Nicholas Shakespeare. [review] 

  McGirr, Michael (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  The contrast between the two Leipzigs (during and after the Cold War) expresses the tension that is brilliantly exploited at many levels in Nicholas Shakespeare’s new novel, a tender work that explores brutality. It deals ...

• A Luminous Cocoon. "Across the Magic Line: Growing Up in Fiji" by Patricia Page. [review] 

  Walker, Shirley (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  In "Across the Magic Line: Growing up in Fiji", Patricia Page comes full circle, returning with her sister Gay after an absence of fifty years to the enchanted islands of their childhood, reliving their memories and examining ...

• Thinking Images. "How Images Think" by Ron Burnett. [review] 

  Snyder, Ilana (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  Although we may be aware of the increasing cultural presence of images, less apparent are the changes in how we might think about them. In the new media landscape, images are no longer just representations or interpretations ...

• Sublime Cocktail. [gallery notes] 

  Eagle, Mary (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  This article is a summary of the "Sublime" exhibition at the National Library of Australia.

• A Life Enhancer. "The Diaries of Miles Franklin" by Paul Brunton (ed). [review] 

  Hooton, Joy (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  Primarily, Paul Brunton’s source is the enormous archive of letters, manuscripts, reviews, notebooks and diaries that Franklin left to the Mitchell Library. Brunton has mined this archive with great sensitivity and fine ...

• Blurring Boundaries. "Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality" by Barbara Creed. [review] 

  Conor, Liz (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  Barbara Creed’s "Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality" intersects with the present preoccupation with new global media forms and their implications for how we think about sex and the public. While the differences within ...

• Iatrogenic Fictions. "The List of All Answers" by Peter Goldsworthy. [review] 

  Jones, Gail (Australian Book Review, 2004-05)

  Peter Goldsworthy’s "Collected Stories" is the work of an accomplished and established writer, perhaps better known for his librettos and his six novels, the most recent of which, "Three Dog Night" (2003), has met with ...

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