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Non-Fiction Book ReviewsSpotlight Article
There are few things a genuine book lover enjoys more than enthusing about their favourite books and authors. In this thoughtfully phrased and inspiring volume, former New South Wales Premier and current Dymocks board member Bob Carr is allowed to do just that for over 400 pages. More Articles
1 May, 2008 A great deal of Judith Lucy’s successful stand-up shtick has centred around her crazy family and in particular her parents. 
1 May, 2008 The 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. 
1 May, 2008 Kay 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. 
1 May, 2008 Are 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! 
1 May, 2008 An 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. 
1 May, 2008 There’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. 
1 May, 2008 Do 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 
18 March, 2008 A book to appeal to animal lovers, Stanley and Sophie is about one woman’s journey after the death of her husband and the two dogs that join her along the way. Australian-born Kate Jennings, the author, lives in New York and after her husband dies, she ends up giving a terrier called Stanley a home. 
17 March, 2008 This is an essential reference work for anyone interested in Australian literature and Aboriginal culture. It is an outstanding collection which is a history of Aboriginal writing in English, a cultural record and a reflection on Aboriginal contact with White Australia. 
15 March, 2008 The title, Losing the Plot in Opera, sets a good scene for this book. Brian Castles-Onion is one of Australia’s best conductors and pianists. He regularly conducts for the Australian Opera and has also worked at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. 
14 March, 2008 There’s not much to say about honey is there? It’s sweet. It’s sticky. Bees like it. If, like me, you thought honey was little more than something to spread on your toast in the morning then Grace Pundyk’s The Honey Spinner will make you think again. 
23 February, 2008 The Young Widow’s Book of Home Improvement: A True Story of Love and Renovation is a beautiful memoir by Virginia Lloyd about beginning a relationship with, and her marriage to, John, and her life after he dies. Lloyd is only in her mid-30s when she is widowed, 
23 February, 2008 Australian Paula Constant has written a lifeaffirming, positive, inspiring and informative narrative of her emotional and physical journey to give up a teaching job in London and walk for three years with her husband 
23 February, 2008 Modern-day feminists, if they exist at all, look very different to the crinoline wearing, bra-burning feminists of old. They come in the form of pouting, Paris Hilton wannabes and Brazilian-waxed pole dancers 
23 February, 2008 This is the inspiring and uplifting story of the determination, dedication and sacrifice of a mother, and her unwavering quest to help her 12-year-old son, Jonathan, after he was hit by a car and left brain-damaged. 
23 February, 2008 Weiss is marriage-less, childless and of Czech origin, so decides to abandon her life in Sydney and spend a year in Prague. She goes because there is nothing to stop her, but finds it isn’t as easy as she first thought. 
23 February, 2008 David Stratton is a big name in cinema in Australia. As co-presenter of film review shows on the ABC and SBS, and with regular columns in The Australian, Stratton’s position as a first-grade reviewer is undeniable. 
23 February, 2008 South Africa was a tumultuous place at the end of apartheid. As a community aid worker in the townships, Sydneysider Sandy Blackburn-Wright was uniquely placed to observe the effects and after effects of apartheid and its demise. 
23 February, 2008 Georgia Blain has published four novels and her work has appeared in magazines and publications across Australia. She is possibly best known for her mother, Anne Deveson 
23 February, 2008 Perhaps most widely known as the face of Australia’s early $100 note, Australian Douglas Mawson was a contemporary of the better-known Robert Scott and Scott’s rival in the race to the South Pole, Roald Amundsen. 
23 February, 2008 American Journeys is not only a thoroughly enjoyable travel narrative, but more ambitiously a kind of 21st-century postscript to Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, first published in 1831.
Daytripper by Simon Webster
10 January, 2008 Daytripper could be the epitome of ‘a fun read’. It’s not a book you sit down and read cover-to=cover—the bite-sized entries and cross-referencing throughout make that clear—but as a weekend reference and something to leaf through with a grin, it’s hard to imagine how it could be better.
Crime Scene Investigations by Vicki Petraitis
9 January, 2008 Described as the ‘queen of crime’, with nine novels under her belt, Vikki Petraitis’ latest book Crime Scene Investigations should be a gripping and compelling collection. Unfortunately this follow-up to her book Forensics is somewhat disappointing.
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
19 December, 2007 Do you suffer from earworms or brainworms? Most of us do. They are those fragments of music which repeat themselves endlessly in our heads, sometimes (as Oliver Sacks notes) "maddeningly, for days on end".
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sky by Gina Wilkinson
19 December, 2007 Foreign correspondents’ memoirs of the (current) Iraq war are a burgeoning genre of their own. So, what’s different about former ABC journalist Gina Wilkinson’s book? For one thing, it’s unlikely to find a place on the shelves of ABC stores around the country. |
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