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December 2005–January 2006
Issue No. 276   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

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LETTERS

Barry Jones, John Button, Jeremy Fisher, Joel Becker, Michael Williams, Karen Brown, Rosemary Dobson Bolton

 
INTERNATIONAL Alison Broinowski and James Wilkinson: The Third Try
STUDIES Christopher Hubbard:  
Australian and US Military Cooperation
John Langmore: Dealing with America Daniel Flitton
 
AUSTRALIAN Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds):
HISTORY Encyclopedia of Melbourne Tony Marshall
Robyn Annear: A City Lost and Found Ian Morrison
Tom Keneally: The Commonwealth of Thieves Alan Atkinson
Robert Holden: Crackpots, Ratbags and Rebels
Peter Wilmoth: Up Close Vivienne Kelly
 
ENVIRONMENT Tim Flannery: The Weather Makers
Ian Lowe: Living in the Hothouse Robyn Eckersley
 
PHILOSOPHY Peter Singer (ed.): In Defense of Animals Chilla Bulbeck
 
RELIGION Paul Collins: God's New Man Adam Carr
 
POEMS Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Peter Steele
Chris Edwards
 
SCIENCE Peter Doherty:
The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize John Carmody
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
FEATURE Best Books of the Year
 
FICTION Brenda Walker: The Wing of Night Aviva Tuffield
A.L. McCann: Subtopia Maria Takolander
Nick Jose: Original Face Luke Beesley
Colleen McCullough: On, Off Robyn Williams
Carolyn Leach-Paholski: The Grasshopper Shoe
Annabel Smith: A New Map of the Universe Kate McFadyen
Bill Leak: Heart Cancer
Bill Leak: Moments of Truth Iain Topliss
Diane Bell: Evil Stephanie Trigg
Chris McLeod: Man of Water
Joanna Murray-Smith: Sunnyside Rachel Buchanan
 
ANTHOLOGY Michael Fullilove (ed.):
'Men and Women of Australia!' Jonathan Pearlman
 
MEMOIR Frank Moorhouse: Martini Craig Sherborne
Graham Freudenberg: A Figure of Speech Troy Bramston
 
REFERENCE

Ann McCulloch: Dance of the Nomad

Peter Steele
 
BIOGRAPHY Miriam Estensen: The Life of George Bass Gillian Dooley
Simon Nasht: The Last Explorer Paul de Serville
David Branagan: T.W. Edgeworth David John Thompson
 
ART Meg Stewart: Margaret Olley Brenda Niall
Margaret Pont:
Arthur Boyd and Saint Francis of Assisi Luke Morgan
 
EAST TIMORESE

Joseph Nevins: A Not-So-Distant Horror

Richard Broinowski
STUDIES

 
LANGUAGE

Michael Clyne: Australia's Language Potential

Bruce Moore
 
POETRY

John Kinsella: The New Arcadia

Judith Bishop

Jennifer Maiden: Friendly Fire

Lisa Gorton

Aidan Coleman: Avenues & Runways

Cameron Lowe: Throwing Stones at the Sun

Maria Takolander: Narcissism

Martin Duwell
 

SCIENCE FICTION

Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (eds):

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction

and Fantasy 2004, Volume 1

Lucy Sussex: A Tour Guide in Utopia

Jake Wilson

Garry Disher: Snapshot

Robert Gott: A Thing of Blood

Gabrielle Lord: Dirty Weekend

Rick Thompson
BEST BOOKS

Best Children's Books of the Year

JUNIOR

David Caddy: The Reef

FICTION

Susan Geason: Death of a Princess

James Roy: The Legend of Big Red

Mary Small: Catastrophe Cat

Ruth Starke

Felice Arena and Garry Lyon:

Specky Magee and the Boots of Glory

Raewyn Caisley: In Union

Meredith Costain: All Stars and 1

Michael Panckridge: The Anniversary Legends

Johnny Warren and Deborah Abela:

Jasper Zammit (Soccer Legend #1)

Nigel Pearn
 
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