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1 July, 2008 Robert Helpmann achieved so much in the arts in one life that he should be more highly regarded in Australia than he is—but then, he didn’t play cricket, he danced. 
1 July, 2008 Love Our Way is Julia Rollings’ unique story of her ‘large and wonderfully complicated’ family. 
1 July, 2008 This delightful and timely book is the author’s solution to soaring food prices. Simply grow your own food garden, starting with one square metre of soil. 
1 July, 2008 With the help of journalist-friend Greg McLean, Ricky Megee recounts his own dire plight of surviving 10 weeks alone in outback Australia. 
1 July, 2008 In Are We There Yet? (2003), David Smiedt went to South Africa, the country of his birth and upbringing, providing a travelogue informed by history and politics. 
1 July, 2008 Rosalyn Russell was Manning Clark’s research assistant from when she began working on Vol V1 of A History of Australia in 1982. 
1 July, 2008 Don Loffler’s latest tribute to the first Holdens follows on from his successful books She’s a Beauty, Still Holden Together and The FJ Holden.
Urthona: Issue 25.' Celtic Connections'
15 June, 2008 I must declare an interest from the start. I was recently contacted by one of the editors of Urthona, a magazine which I had not previously come across, with a request to use an essay of mine in a forthcoming issue. 
1 June, 2008 The long reign of Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Pacelli) from 1939 to 1958, included WWII. John Cornwell’s Hitler’s Pope has been the most sensational instalment in the ongoing debate as to whether Pope Pius did enough to oppose the Nazi persecution of the Jews. 
1 June, 2008 What a fascinating book this is! I found myself so engrossed that for two days running I nearly missed my tram stop! 
1 June, 2008 The battle over ‘postmodernism’ and theory has been raging in universities for years. 
1 June, 2008 It’s in Mombasa, Kenya, where Carl Cleves first experiences the state of musical ecstasy known as Tarab. 
1 June, 2008 Sex Lives of Australian Women is a compulsive read. It contains page after page of information about the sexual lives of thousands of women who participated in an anonymous survey. 
1 June, 2008 The battle to save Tasmania’s Franklin River from being dammed started off as a small state issue and morphed into a national controversy. 
1 June, 2008 This memoir will be enjoyed for its compelling honesty and the intense imagery used to describe complex subjects-cultural heritage, divided loyalties, and love-universal themes set in a region of great significance to many Australians. 
1 June, 2008 If you like reading cricket books, then you’ll love Glenn McGrath: Line and Strength. Ideal for a young cricketer who is looking to move up the grades, this book explains how a very shy Glenn McGrath lived in a caravan for many months when he moved to Sydney. 
1 June, 2008 Murder, deceit and corruption might seem to be more at home on the gangland streets of Melbourne than at the Queensland Cat Protection Society. 
1 June, 2008 Rachel Power’s The Divided Heart is a collection of interviews, in dialogue, with Australian artists who are also mothers. 
1 June, 2008 Cancer biographies are coming out thick and fast this year and Dear Eddie is another of these. Danny Russell (previously a journalist) has written this one a little differently though. 
1 June, 2008 Jim Sharman relays the story of his life rhythmically, like a play or film. 
1 June, 2008 Anyone familiar with the song 'Click go the Shears' will be aware of the role of shearers as a significant part of our national identity. 
1 May, 2008 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. 
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. |
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