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la trobe university essay
Dorothy Johnson: Female Sleuths and Family Matters: Can Genre and Literary Fiction Coalesce?

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Laurie Clancy: Undeservedly Out of Print Books

obituaries
Peter Craven
Inga Clendinnen

Reviews

politics
Frank Stilwell: Changing Tracks Ross Fitzgerald

history
Hugh Anderson: Farewell to Judges and Juries Don Garden
John Mulvaney with Alison Petch and Howard Morphy: From the Frontier: Outback Letters to Baldwin Spencer Barry Hill

psychology
Peter O'Connor:Facing the Fifties Miriam Manne

sociology
Graham Willett: Living Out Loud Deborah Zion
Barry Dickens: Articles of Light: Reflections on Lowlifes, Ratbags and Angels Christopher Bantick

art history
Helen Topliss (ed): Earth, Fire, Water, Air: Anne Dangar's Letters to Grace Crowley 1930-1951 Brenda Niall
Catharine Lumby: Tim Storrier:The Art of the Outsider Traudi Allen

drama
Andrew Bovell (et al): Melbourne Stories & Jack Hibberd: Selected Plays Thérèse Radic

autobiography
Mirka Mora: Wicked But Virtuous: My Life Robin Wallace-Crabbe

essays
Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra (eds): In the Gutter...Looking at the Stars Debra Adelaide

literary criticism
Fran de Groen and Ken Stewart (eds): Australian Writing and the City Robin Gerster
Gillian Whitlock: The Intimate Empire: Reading Women's Autobiography David McCooey
Susan Lever: Real Relations: The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian LiteratureTony Hassall

true crime
Kerry Greenwood (ed): On Murder: True Crime Writing in Australia J.R. Carroll

fiction
Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang Morag Fraser
Thomas Keneally: Bettany's Book Peter Pierce
Hoa Pham: Vixen Kevin Brophy
Peter Minack: CWG Katharine England
Morgan Yasbineck: Liv Justine Ettler

crime fiction
Peter Temple: Dead Point Sue Turnbull and R.J. Thompson
Jon Cleary: Bear Pit Tony Smith

poetry
Philip Hodgins: New Selected PoemsChris Wallace-Crabbe
Michael Brennan and Peter Minter (eds): Calyx Thomas Shapcott
John Kinsella and Coral Hull:Zoo Andrew Zawacki
Ken Taylor: Africa & Manfred Jurgensen: Carnal KnowledgeJohn Jenkins
Lauren Williams: Invisible Tattoos & Lyndon Walker: So Many Rivers, So Much to Learn Alison Croggon

children's books
Ken Catran: Talking to Blue & Anthony Eaton: The Darkness Barry Carozzi
Margot Lanagan: White Light Pam Macintyre
Peter Rigby (illus. Craig Smith): Stanley Sticks Out!,Gary Crew: (illus. Annmarie Scott): In My Father's Room,Tohby Riddle: The Singing Hat & Katrina Germein (illus. Bronwyn Bancroft): Leaving Margaret Dunkle

shorts
Phil Leask: By Way of Water Melissa Hart
Bruce Pascoe: Nightjar Nita Kambouris
Margaret Reeson: A Very Long War Ben Zipper
Andy Kissane: Under the Same Sun Miki Perkins
Fiona Giles (ed): Chick for a Day Ben Zipper

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