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October 2005
Issue No. 275   A$8.95 (incl.GST)

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ADVANCES

 

LETTERS

Ben Strout, John Carmody, Angus Trumble, David McKnight, Leith Morton, Damien Kingsbury, Tamas Pataki, Robert Manne

 
POLITICS Tony Coady and Michael O'Keefe (eds): Righteous Violence
Thomas Cushman (ed.): A Matter of Principle Jonathan Pearlman
 
LAW T.D. Castle and Bruce Kercher (eds): Dowling's Secret Cases, 1828 to 1844 Ian Barker
Malcolm Knox: Secrets of the Jury Room
Chester Porter: The Gentle Arm of Persuasion Peter Haig
Carolyn Harris Johnson: Come with Daddy
John Hirst: Kangaroo Court Pamela Bone
 
ESSAYS

Martin Krygier: Civil Passions

Morag Fraser

Gerald Murnane: Invisible YEt Enduring Lilacs
James Phelan: Literati Michelle Griffin
 
LETTERS

Margaret Harris: Dearest Munx

Anne Pender
 
DIARIES Paul Hetheringtob (ed.): The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 3
Ian Britain
 
ANTHOLOGY

Peter Porter (ed.): The Best Australian Poetry

David McCooey
 
LANGUAGE Pam Peters: A Word on Words
Ruth Wajnryb: Away with Words
Ruth Wajnryb: Language Most Foul Fred Ludowyk
 
CULTURAL STUDIES

Kim Torney: Babes in the Bush

Peter Pierce
 
MEDIA

Robert Manne (ed.): Do Not Disturb

Sylvia Lawson

Henry Pollack: The Accidental Developer

Bridget Griffen-Folley
 
POEMS

Craig Sherborne

Peter Rose

Peter Porter
 

FICTION

J.M. Coetzee: Slow Man

James Ley

Brian Castro: The Garden Book Melinda Harvey

Peter Corris: The Journal of Fletcher Christian

Gillian Dooley

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

Lorien Kaye

Lynette Chataway: Noble Sindhu Horses

J.D. Cregan: 98% Pure

Michelle Haines Thomas
BIOGRAPHY

Brenda Niall: Judy Cassab

Mary Eagle

Tom Frame: The Life and Death of Harold Holt

Kate Baillieu
HISTORY

Maria Nugent: Botany Bay

Alan Atkinson

Colin Dyer: The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772-1839

 

Vesna Drapac

 
ABORIGINAL STUDIES

Richard Broome: Aboriginal Victorians

Ann McGrath

Kim Scott and Hazel Brown: Kayang and Me

Alison Ravenscroft
 
PACIFIC STUDIES

Michael Field, Tupeni Baba and Unaisi Nabobo-Baba: Speight of Violence

Allan Patience
 
POETRY

Rod Moran: The Paradoxes of Water

David Gilbey
 

Alan Gould: The Past Completes Me

Martin Duwell
 
LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ESSAY

Parrotology: On the Necessity of Parrots in Poetry

John Kinsella
 
COMMENTARY

Harry Potter and the Fantastic Australians

Stephanie Owen Reeder
 
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS

 

Allan Baillie: Castles

Glenda Millard: Angel Breath

Anne Ryan: Unforeseen Circumstances

Colin Thompson: The Short and Incredibly Happy Life of Riley

John Winch: Run, Hare, Run!

Stella Lees
 

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

Randa Abdel-Fattah: Does My Head Look Big in This?

Laurene Kelly: Still Waving

Anna Ryan-Punch
CONTRIBUTORS

 
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