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November 2004
Issue No. 266   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

C O N T E N T S




ADVANCES

 

 

LETTERS

Sylvia Lawson, Inga Clendinnen, Henry Ergas, Paul Comrie, John Biggs
 
DIARY

The Gecko in the Machine

Inga Clendinnen
 
BIOGRAPHY

Janine Burke: The Heart Garden

Sarah Thomas

Julia Baird: Media Tarts

 

Kerry Chikarovski: Chika

Rachel Buchanan

James Norman: Bob Brown

Robyn Eckersley

Pamela Bone: Up We Grew

Anne Coombs

Roland Perry: Monash

Martin Ball

Greg Baum: The Waugh Era

 

Jack Egan: 'One Who Will'

 

Christine Wallace: The Private Don

Gideon Haigh
 
POEMS Dorothy Porter
Ashlley Morgan-Shae
 
 

LA TROBE
UNIVERSITY ESSAY

'The Observed of all Observers':
Biography in Poetry
Peter Porter
 
MEMOIR

Peter Brocklehurst: Finding My Voice

 

Jo Buchanan: Wings of Madness

 

Noel Tovey: Little Black Bastard

John Rickard

Natalie Andrews: Clara's Witch

Gaylene Perry: Midnight Water

Lisa Gorton

John Hughes: The Idea of Home

 

Andra Kins: Coming and Going

Richard Johnstone

John Molony: Luther's Pine

Michael McGirr
 
MEDIA Bridgett Griffen-Foley
 
ANTHOLOGY Rod Kemp and Marion Stanton: Speaking for Australia
Sally Warhaft: Well May We Say

James Curran
 
ABORIGINAL STUDIES Roslyn Poignant: Professional Savages Ann McGrath
 
HISTORY Maggie MacKellar: Core of My Heart, My Country
Frank Welsh: Great Southern Land
Kate Darian-Smith
Stuart Macintyre
 
ESSAY There Is No Proof This Actually Occured: Writing From Life Sophie Cunningham
 
INDONESIAN
STUDIES
John Marinkus: Indonesia's Secret War in Aceh
Duncan Graham: The People Next Door
John Mateer: Semar's Cave
John Monfries

Kiera Lindsey
 
LETTER FROM CHINA

Sonya Hartnett


 
FICTION Susan Johnson: The Broken Book
Susan Kurosawa: Coronation Talkies
Arnold Zable: Scraps of Heaven
Richard Beasley: The Ambulance Chaser
Mark D'Arbanville: The Naked Husband
Matt Howard: Street Furniture

Kerryn Goldsworthy
Ian Britain
Michelle Griffin


Tony Smith

 
CRIME FICTION Peter Corris: The Coast Road
Robert Gott: Good Murder
Steve J. Spears: Murder at the Fortnight
Steve J. Spears: Murder by Manuscript



Cameron Woodhead
 
POETRY R.A. Simpson: The Sky's Beach Martin Duwell
 
NATIONAL NEWS
Jim Cotter
 
MUSIC Andrew Stafford: Pig City David Nichols
 
YOUNG ADULT
NON-FICTION
Heather Catchpole and Vanessa Woods:
There Are Bugs in Your Bed
Ken McNamara: We Came From Slime
Michael Tyler: Frogs Are Cannibals
Elizabeth Vercoe and Kerry Abramowski: The Grief Book
Carole Wilkinson: Fire in the Belly




Margaret Robson Kett
 

YOUNG ADULT
FICTION
Sherryl Clark, illus. Christina Miesen: Farm Kid
Johnny Danalis: Dog 37
Anthony Eaton, illus. Johnny Danalis: The Girl in the Cave
John Marsden, illus. Mark Jackson and Heather Potter:
A Roomful of Magic
Annette Wickes: Princess Tamsin
Ruth Starke
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW NOVEMBER 2004