These eleven papers are the product of the most recent of the Boston, Melbourne, Oxford Conversazione on Culture and Society, which, Leonie Kramer tells us in her brief introduction, has succeeded in attracting 'leading ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Chalmers Johnson, who began his career in the US Navy and became a consultant to the CIA, is one of the most respected American experts on East Asia and international affairs. Over the past few years, he has emerged as a ...

Edmund Campion’s review of "Daniel Mannix: Priest and Patriot" (as it was first titled) appeared in the July 1983 issue of ABR. Dove Communications was the original publisher.

Clarke has chosen to write his story without the aid of a ‘ghost’; in Scott Gullan, Cathy has found a writer who seems to have captured her mood swings and hopes and fears, the ‘panic’ and ‘confusion’ that at times threatened ...