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The Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy1 May, 2008A great deal of Judith Lucy’s successful stand-up shtick has centred around her crazy family and in particular her parents.
Gone for a Song by Jeff Waters1 May, 2008The events that followed the death in custody of Mulrunji in Palm Island in 2004 became one of the more incendiary moments in Queensland politics of the last decade.
Families Behind Bars by Kay Danes1 May, 2008Kay Danes, an Australian who was falsely arrested and detained for gem theft in Laos, has told her horrific battle of endurance in her previous book
Deliver Us from Evil.
Caught Out! Scandals! Lies! Cover-ups! by Wendy Lewis1 May, 2008Are Australians a bunch of
knee-jerkers? I’m talking about people who have strong opinions on subjects they know nothing about. If you listen to talkback radio (or sit around my family dining table any evening,) then your answer would undoubtedly be yes!
Art Life Chooks by Annette Hughes1 May, 2008An absorbing read,
Art Life Chooks is the story of Annette Hughes and her partner Geoffrey who move from Sydney to a farm in Noosa. Both of them seem to know fairly well what they are getting themselves into.
The After Life: A Memoir by Kathleen Stewart1 May, 2008There’s no doubt in my mind that this memoir is excellent. The prose is literary with a reflective tone, and I enjoyed the fact that this book is not structured with a blow-by-blow commentary of the author’s life.
A Burqa and a Hard Place by Sally Cooper1 May, 2008Do we really need another reporter’s memoir about Afghanistan? Well, yes—
if the book in question has something original to offer. ABC Radio journalist Sally Cooper went to Afghanistan not to report on the war, but to train the people
The Woman in the Lobby by Lee Tulloch1 May, 2008Melbourne-born author Lee Tulloch writes for newspapers and magazines such as the
Age,
Vogue Living and
Australian Women’s Weekly. She has written five previous novels, including
Wraith and
Perfect Pink.
The Two Pearls of Wisdom by Alison Goodman1 May, 2008Twelve-year-old Eon, aspiring apprentice to the zodiacal Rat Dragon, is playing a dangerous game: he is actually Eona, 16-years-old and a girl.
Nocturne by Diane Armstrong1 May, 2008Herself a childhood refugee from WWII Poland, Armstrong is on familiar territory following the author’s earlier explorations of personal identity and the Holocaust. Teenage Elzunia Orlowski reaches womanhood through the deprivations imposed upon her by the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.