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December 2002/January 2003
Issue No. 247   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

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LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY
Our First Book
Clive James
 

ADVANCES

   
 

CONTRIBUTORS

   
 
LETTERS Sylvia Lawson, Leigh Swinbourne, Colin Steele, J.J. Carmody, Laurie Hergenhan, Richard King  
 
MEMOIR Barry Humphries: My Life As Me Peter Rose

 

Lily Brett: Between Mexico and Poland Alice Spigelman
 

Gaby Naher: The Truth about My Fathers

 

Cliff Nichols: I'm Hungry, Daddy

Shirley Painter: The Bean Patch Aviva Tuffield
POLITICS

Greg Barton: Abdurrahman Wahid

 

Damien Kingsbury: The Politics of Indonesia

 

Kevin O'Rourke: Reformasi

John Monfries
 

Malcolm Fraser: Common Ground

Robert Manne

Bob Ellis: Goodbye Babylon

Neal Blewett
 

Greg Gow: The Oromo in Exile

 

James Jupp: From White Australia to Woomera

 

Jane Duncan Owen: Mixed Matches

John Lack
 

BIOGRAPHY

Barry Hill: Broken Song

Frances Devlin-Glass
 
BEST BOOKS

Best Books of the Year

 
POEMS

David McCooey

 

Luke Beesley

 

GAY WRITING

Graeme Aitken (ed.): The Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing

Peter Porter
 

MEDIA

Ilana Snyder (ed.): Silicon Literacies

Paul Kane
Graham Meikle: Future Active Susan Hawthorne
 

HISTORY

John Hirst: Australia's Democracy
James Walter and Margaret Macleod (eds):
The Citizens' Bargain
Patricia Grimshaw
Alan Atkinson: The Commonwealth of Speech Beverley Kingston
Jarlath Ronayne: First Fleet to Federation

Bob Reece

Alan Barcan: Radical Students  

 

Raymond Priestley: The Diary of a Vice-Chancellor

Michael Crennan
 

TRAVEL

Tony Horwitz: Into the Blue

Brigid Hains

Roff Smith: Life on the Ice

Tony Wheeler

Brigid Hains: The Ice and the Inland  

 

Roger McDonald and Richard Woldendorp: Australia's Flying Doctors

Libby Robin
 
POETRY Aileen Kelly: City and Stranger

 

Stephen McInerney: In Your Absence

 

Deborah Westbury: Flying Blind

Kevin Brophy

 

FICTION

Tom Keneally: An Angel in Australia

Peter Pierce

Anson Cameron: Confessing the Blues

 

Graham Reilly: Saigon Tea

James Bradley

 

Bryce Courtenay: Matthew Flinders' Cat Gillian Dooley
 

Emily Ballou: Father Lands

Delia Falconer
 

Sarah Hay: Skins

Stephanie Green

 

CRIME FICTION

Patricia Carlon: Crime of Silence

 

Patricia Carlon: The Unquiet Night

Sydney Smith
 

REISSUES

Jean Devanny: Sugar Heaven

 

Vance Palmer: The Passage

 

Louis Stone: Jonah

  Judah Waten: Distant Land Delys Bird
  Jon Cleary: The Sundowners

Ernestine Hill: My Love Must Wait

 

Peter Kocan: The Treatment and The Cure

  Les Robinson: The Giraffe's Uncle Elizabeth Webby

Randolph Stow: To the Islands

 

Randolph Stow: Tourmaline

Tom Shapcott
  Kate Grenville: Bearded Ladies/Dreamhouse
  Kate Grenville: Joan Makes History Carolyn Tétaz
 
BEST BOOKS

Best Children's/YA Books of the Year

 
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS

Dave O'Neil and Kiran Morris: Raised by Frank

  Andrew Plant: Could a Tyrannosaurus Play Table Tennis?
  Emily Rodda and Andrew McLean: Squeak Street

Lisa Shanahan and Wayne Harris: Gordon's Got a Snookie

Dianne Schallmeiner
 
YA FICTION

Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked

  Leonie Norrington: The Barrumbi Kids
  Gabrielle Wang: The Garden of Empress Cassia Judith Ridge
 
YA NON-FICTION

Jodie Clark and Kirsten Moore: How to Play Netball

 

Garrie Hutchinson: How to Play Cricket

 

Garrie Hutchinson: How to Play Footy

  Karl Kruszelnicki: Dr Karl's Collection of Great Australian Facts and Firsts
  Robin Stewart: Alternative Pets
  Alan Tucker: Iron in the Blood
  Rick Wilkinson: Endangered! Stella Lees
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW DECEMBER 2002/JANUARY 2003