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October 2001
Issue No. 235   A$6.95 (incl.GST)

C O N T E N T S

Feature

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

Barry Smith: H.G. Wells in Australia


ADVANCES
 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Isobel Crombie
 

CONTRIBUTORS

 
LETTERS Roger Sandall, Ian Britain
 

COMMENTARY

Julian Burnside
 
ESSAYS

Helen Garner: The Feel of Steel

Evelyn Juers

Clive James: Reliable Essays

Clive James: Even As We Speak

Don Anderson
Donald McDonald (ed.): The Boyer Collection Andrew Riemer
 

POEMS

Clive James
Robert Adamson
 
 
HISTORY

Bob Reece: The Origins of Irish Convict
Transportation to New South Wales
Alan Atkinson
Les Carlyon: Gallipoli Martin Ball

Anthony J. Brown: Ill-Starred Captains

 

Catherine Retter and Shirley Sinclair (eds):
Letters to Ann

 

Ernest Scott: The Life of Matthew Flinders

Alan Frost

Marguerite Hancock: Colonial Consorts

Paul de Serville
 

MEMOIR

Peter Rose: Rose Boys Richard Freadman
George Szego: Two Prayers to One God Tamas Pataki
Brian Nicholls: A Saucepan in the Sky Robin Gerster
 
LETTER FROM MANILA Dennis Altman
 
PHILOSOPHY John Carroll: The Western Dreaming

David Tacey

 
SOCIOLOGY Peter Beilharz: Zygmunt Bauman  

Peter Beilharz (ed.): The Bauman Reader

Boris Frankel
 
POLITICS

Don Edgar: The Patchwork Nation

Peter Saunders
 

FICTION

Richard Flanagan: Gould's Book of Fish

Brian Matthews

Robyn Williams: 2007 Peter Pierce

 

Deborah Ratliff: The Tree Delia Falconer

 

Tom Petsinis: The Death of Pan David Matthews
 

POETRY

M.T.C. Cronin: Bestseller Gig Ryan

 

Katherine Gallagher: Tigers on the Silk Road Diane Fahey
 

LITERARY HISTORY

Harry Heseltine: The Most Glittering Prize

 

 

Jill Roe and Margaret Bettison (eds): A Gregarious Culture Vivian Smith

 

Marilla North (ed.): Yarn Spinners Jacqueline Kent

LITERARY CRITICISM

Peter Porter: Saving from the Wreck Peter Steele
 

FESTIVAL DAYS

Tom Shapcott
 
LANGUAGE

Bruce Moore (ed.): Who's Centric Now?

 
Julia Robinson (ed.): Voices of Queensland
Susan Butler: Dinkum Dictionary Gary Simes
 
POST-COLONIALISM Bill Ashcroft: Post-Colonial Transformation Leela Gandhi

Ann Blake, Leela Gandhi and Sue Thomas: England Through Colonial Eyes

Gillian Whitlock
Helen Gilbert (ed.): Postcolonial Plays John McCallum
 
CHILDREN'S BOOKS Carol Chataway and Greg Holfield: The Perfect Pet
Chris Fry: Nardika Learns To Make a Spear
Libby Gleeson and Armin Greder: An Ordinary Day  
Bob Graham: Let's Get a Pup! Pam Macintyre
Guundie Kuchling: Mega, Mega, Mates!
Papunya School:
Papunya School Book of Country and History
Virginia Lowe
Alwyn Evans: Destination Unknown  
Louise Pike: Harriet Huxtable and the Purpose of Rats
Lydia Sturton: Are You Listening?
Mark Svendsen: Poison under Their Lips
Sarah Walker: If Only Margaret Robson Kett
 
TWENTY YEARS ON
 
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW OCTOBER 2001