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DAVID MARR Political Animal: the Making of Tony Abbott (Quarterly Essay 47). Reviewed by Linda Funnell

October 11, 2012

He’s anti-abortion and his career owes a debt to Alan Jones. Does Tony Abbott have a problem with women? There’s …

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EMILY MAGUIRE Fishing for Tigers

October 8, 2012

Emily Maguire’s vivid novel of expats in Hanoi reveals some uncomfortable truths.   Mischa is a thirty-something Australian woman who …

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Robert G Barrett: a personal farewell

September 24, 2012

The creator of the immensely popular Les Norton died on Thursday 20 September 2012.  He was a more complex figure than his …

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BELINDA CASTLES Hannah and Emil

September 12, 2012

This third novel from Belinda Castles is a love story, a family saga, and a slice of twentieth-century European and …

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SUSAN JOHNSON My Hundred Lovers

August 8, 2012

Susan Johnson’s new novel is both a woman’s search for love and a meditation on the senses. As Samuel Beckett …

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STEVE LEWIS and CHRIS UHLMANN The Marmalade Files. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

August 1, 2012

This slickly sliced satire offers an insider’s view of federal politics. In a political world that contains all the strange …

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JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL Forecast: Turbulence

July 11, 2012

These stories of family trauma find their echoes in the elements. In ‘Moon River’, the chapter of memoir that comes …

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SOFKA ZINOVIEFF The House on Paradise Street

June 19, 2012

This timely novel of estranged sisters and a family consumed by history gives a compelling insight into contemporary Greece. The …

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WENDY JAMES The Mistake. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

May 30, 2012

There’s more than one side to this story of a mother accused of murdering her child. It’s impossible to read …

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LINDY CAMERON Redback

May 1, 2012

A girls’-own-adventure with the lot. A beautiful-yet-deadly commander of a crack retrieval team; terrorists of US, European, Arabic and Asian …

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