Vol. 10 No. 4 · 18 February 1988
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Vol. 10 No. 4 · 18 February 1988
Sylvia Lawson
Australians: A Historical Library Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, AUS $695
Letters
A.J. Ayer, A.N. Wilson, Les Murray, Jon Halliday, W.J.T. Mitchell, Eugene Kamenka, David Cooper, Christopher MacLehose
Clive James
The Road to Botany Bay by Paul Carter. Faber, 384 pp., £14.95, October 1987, 0 571 14551 5 The Oxford History of Australia. Vol. IV: 1901-1942 by Stuart Macintyre. Oxford, 399 pp., £22.50, October 1987, 0 19 554612 1 The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship by Sylvia Lawson. Penguin Australia, 292 pp., AUS $12.95, September 1987, 0 14 009848 8 The Lucky Country Revisited by Donald Horne. Dent, 235 pp., AUS $34.95, October 1987, 9780867700671
John Bayley
The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories edited by Murray Bail. Faber, 413 pp., £12.95, January 1988, 0 571 15083 7
Jill Roe
For Australians only
C.K. Stead
Selected Poems by Les Murray. Carcanet, 151 pp., £3.95, April 1986, 0 85635 667 0 The Daylight Moon by Les Murray. Carcanet, 86 pp., £6.95, February 1988, 0 85635 779 0
Anthony Thwaite
Poem: ‘Multiplied’
Ian Jack
Tales from Two Cities: Travel of Another Sort by Dervla Murphy. Murray, 310 pp., £12.95, November 1987, 0 7195 4435 1
Alison Weir
Quiet Rage: Bernie Goetz and the Shootings on the New York Subway by Lillian Rubin. Faber, 265 pp., £4.95, October 1987, 0 571 14944 8
John Sutherland
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Cape, 659 pp., £11.95, February 1988, 0 224 02439 6
Clive James
Poem: ‘Last night the sea dreamed it was Greta Scacchi’
Edward Said
Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era by Alexander Cockburn. Verso, 479 pp., £14.95, November 1987, 0 86091 176 4
T.H. Breen
Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775 by Roger Ekirch. Oxford, 277 pp., £25, November 1987, 0 19 820092 7
Nicholas Penny
Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim. Thames and Hudson, 384 pp., £28, November 1987, 0 500 23495 7
Jerome McGann
Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts: The Panizzi Lectures 1985 by D.F. McKenzie. British Library, 80 pp., £10, December 1986, 0 7123 0085 6
Peter Craven
The Remake by Clive James. Cape, 223 pp., £10.95, October 1987, 0 224 02515 5 In the Land of Oz by Howard Jacobson. Hamish Hamilton, 380 pp., £12.95, September 1987, 0 241 12110 8
Walter Nash
The Panda Hunt by Richard Burns. Cape, 189 pp., £10.95, August 1987, 0 224 02445 0 Davy Chadwick by James Buchan. Hamish Hamilton, 145 pp., £9.95, September 1987, 0 241 12115 9 Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris by Mavis Gallant. Cape, 196 pp., £10.95, August 1987, 0 224 02426 4 Black Idol by Lisa St Aubin de Teran. Cape, 157 pp., £9.95, September 1987, 9780224024372
Patrick Parrinder
Diary: On Raymond Williams
Susannah Clapp
A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924 by Julia Briggs. Hutchinson, 473 pp., £16.95, November 1987, 9780091682101 Narratives of Love and Loss: Studies in Modern Children’s Fiction by Margaret Rustin and Michael Rustin. Verso, 268 pp., £22.95, November 1987, 9780860911876
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