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September 2004
Issue No. 264   A$7.95 (incl.GST)

C O N T E N T S




ADVANCES

 

 

LETTERS

Admiral Alan Beaumont et al., Jenny Darling
 
MEDIA Bridget Griffen-Foley  
 
POLITICS

Michael Duffy: Latham and Abbott

Craig McGregor: Australian Son Dennis Altman
  Klaus Neumann: Refuge Australia Frank Brennan
  Robert Garran: True Believer Michael O'Keefe
  Margo Kingston: Not Happy, John!  
  Andrew Wilkie: Axis of Deceit Alison Broinowski
 
POEMS Bruce Dawe  
 

Kevin Brophy

 
 
JOURNALISM Paul McGeough: Mission Impossible  
  Peter Wilson: Long Drive through a Short War John Martinkus
 

HISTORY

Alan Atkinson: The Europeans in Australia John Hirst
 

James Jupp: The English in Australia

Jim Hammerton
 
TRUE CRIME Stephanie Bennett: The Gatton Murders
 

Hilary Bonney: The Society Murders

 

Derrick Hand and Janet Fife-Yeomans: The Coroner

 

John Suter Linton: Bound by Blood

 

Robert Wainwright: The Lost Boy

Simon Caterson
 

Helen Garner: Joe Cinque's Consolation

Peter Rose
 
LATROBE UNIVERISTY ESSAY Lying in Politics: Thoughts on Iraq Robert Manne
 
LITERARY CRITCISM Robert Dessaix: Twilight of Love Judith Armstrong
  Juliet Flesch: From Australia with Love Amanda Smith
 
BIOGRAPHY Michael Ackland: Henry Handel Richardson Catherine Pratt
 
MEMOIR Louis Nowra: Shooting the Moon David McCooey
Valerie Barnes: A Foreign Affair Christina Hill
 
FOOD Marion Halligan: The Taste of Memory Kerryn Goldsworthy
Serge Dansereau: For the Love of Good Food Patricia O'Donnell
 
TRAVEL Tim Fischer: Transcontinental Train Odyssey Tim Bowden
 
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON Sophie Cunningham
 
FICTION Gail Jones: Sixty Lights Aviva Tuffield
  Eva Sallis: Fire Fire Michael Williams
  John Charalambous: Furies  
Emily Maguire: Taming the Beast Thuy On
Sarah Armstrong: Salt Rain  
Corrie Hosking: Ash Rain  
  Craig Silvey: Rhubarb Lorien Kaye
 
POETRY Joanne Burns: Footnotes of a Hammock
Sarah Day: The Ship Lisa Gorton

 

Ian McBryde: Domain
Tony Page: Gateway to the Sphinx Oliver Dennis
 
ANTHOLOGY Jennifer Harrison and Phil Ilton (eds): Said the Rat! Brian Edwards
 
BUSINESS Jenny Stewart: The Decline of the Tea Lady
  Helen Trinca and Catherine Fox: Better than Sex Gideon Haigh
 
CULTURAL STUDIES Stephen Boyden: The Biology of Civilisation John Carmody
  Adam Jamrozik: The Chains of Colonial Inheritance Peter Beilharz
 
RELIGION Paul Collins: Between the Rock and a Hard Place Michael McGirr
 
MILITARY HISTORY Scott Bevan: Battle Lines Martin Ball
 
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK Bronwyn Bancroft: An Australian ABC of Animals
Mem Fox, illus. Judy Horacek: Where Is the Green Sheep?
Libby Gleeson, illus. Julie Vivas: Cuddle Time
Libby Hathorn, illus. Anna Pignataro: The Great Big Animal Ask
Margaret Wild, illus. Stephen Michael King: Piglet and Mama Moira Robinson
 
JUNIOR FICTION J.C. Burke: The Red Cardigan
Judith Clarke: Kalpana's Dream
John Heffernan: A Horse Called Elvis
Julia Lawrinson: Loz & Al  
Gabrielle Wang: The Pearl of Tiger Bay Robyn Sheahan-Bright
 
YOUNG ADULT FICTION Anthony Eaton: Fireshadow
Ric Feneley: Sly
Margo Lanagan: Black Juice Kevin Steinberger
     
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW SEPTEMBER 2004