Living Politics by Margaret Reynolds **
1 July, 2007
Living Politics by Margaret Reynolds is her memoir of life-from grassroots activism to federal politics and United Nations human rights advocacy.

Faith, Money and Power by Margaret Simons **
1 July, 2007
What do the words ‘religious revival’ mean to you? In the minds of most Australians the religious revival, along with the rise of mega-churches such as Hillsong, are synonymous with conservative, right wing politics.

The Devil and Maria D'Avalos by Victoria Hammond **
1 July, 2007
This historical narrative incorporates the life, loves and violent death of the renowned beauty, Maria d’Avalos, who was murdered by her third husband, the talented, temperamental and highly acclaimed musician, Prince Carlos Gesualdo.

My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani & Robert Hillman
1 June, 2007
‘I want my pink shoes!’ writes Zarah Ghahramani in her memoir My Life as a Traitor. This statement may seem frivolous, even silly, but it sums up the core of this book: the right to chose, to make one’s own decisions, the right to be free.

Cheerio Tom, Dick and Harry by Ruth Wajnryb
1 June, 2007
Inspired initially by the ‘Cemetery of Lost Books’ in Zafon’s Shadow of the Wind, Ruth Wajnryb has constructed a home for words that are disappearing from today’s English language.

Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff
29 May, 2007
Mrs Skipworth, an old lady immersed in her books in rural Cornwall, fostering stray animals and walking Bodmin Moor in old gum-boots and scruffy clothes. And Princess Sophie (Sophka) Dolgorouky, a child attended by nursemaids, footmen and private tutors, playmate of the Tsarevich, and heiress to some of the greatest wealth in Russia.

Ted Hughes Selected Translations by Daniel Weissbort
29 May, 2007
"Ted Hughes(1930-98), Poet Laureate from 1984, was among the most important translators in the English tradition". So writes Daniel Weissbort in his introduction to this book. Weissbort whose own expertise in translation is widely acknowledged and who was co-founder of the magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation in 1965, is ideally placed to assess Hughes's translations.

Autobiography of My Mother by Meg Stewart
25 May, 2007
What do you do if you have spent hours talking to your mother and recording her memories, researched some of the family history, and published it all as a ghost-written autobiography, and then you read a chapter headed 'Mistress and Wife' in someone else's book and realize that there was something your mother omitted to tell you?

Meaner than Fiction by Lindy Cameron
1 April, 2007
This book is a truly fascinating yet, at times, extremely unsettling look at the Australian justice system, one that many believe is a system to be trusted and relied on to convict the guilty and free the innocent.

The 3rd Degree by Murray Hogarth *
1 April, 2007
Anyone who was in Australia in the second half of 2006 would have felt the ‘tipping point’ of public concern on global warming that followed the triple whammy of Tim Flannery’s The Weathermakers, Al Gore’s An Invonvenient Truth and the Stern Report-not to mention the worsening drought in many areas.

Hotel Heaven by Matthew Brace **
1 April, 2007
If you are interested in luxury, then you cannot go past Hotel Heaven.

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James **
1 April, 2007
For anyone who has listened to the Radio National program broadcast a couple of years ago that was a conversation between two expatriate Australians, the poet Peter Porter and the one and only Clive James, it will be no surprise that the latter has put together his collection of important thinkers and their writings

The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady by Sue Woolfe *
1 April, 2007
There are plenty of books on the market about the writing process.

Slicing the Silence by Tom Griffiths **
1 April, 2007
Historian and author Tom Griffiths turns his attention to Antarctica in his latest book.

Shot by Gail Bell
2 February, 2007
One wonders what Gail Bell has in store for her next memoir.

Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
5 January, 2007
The setting of Unpolished Gem will be at once familiar and completely foreign to many readers. Those familiar with Melbourne will know the suburb of Footscray in which Pung grew up, but most would consider themselves outsiders to the Chinese Cambodian refugee community she presents here. Unpolished Gem is a playfully written and welcoming gateway into the lives of one family for whom the suburb is at first a ‘wonderland’ and eventually a delicately intertwined community.

The Human Touch by Michael Frayn
10 December, 2006
You have to admire Michael Frayn's courage. He has taken on all the major problems that philosophers have argued about over the centuries; all the major assumptions about the universe which underlie the scientific experiments on which we spend billions; and all the ethical credos on which we base our judicial system; and he has come to the conclusion that we make it all up.

Ted Hughes: A Literary Life by Neil Roberts
9 December, 2006
" As a young man, Ted Hughes must have seemed blessed. He was extravagantly gifted, as his juvenile poetry shows, and was warmly encouraged by his family and teachers. From a socially and economically modest background in Yorkshire, he won a place at Cambridge, despite performing poorly in his entrance exam: his teacher persuaded the college to accept him because of his talent as a writer".

Interview with Andrew McGahan - author of Underground
5 November, 2006
Andrew McGahan’s latest novel Underground invokes an Australia ‘in the not too distant future, a military state where Muslims are the enemy and government propaganda is rife’. McGahan spoke to Tony O’Loughlin.

The Laughter of Foxes by Keith Sagar
4 November, 2006
Keith Sagar is unique amongst scholarly critics of Ted Hughes' work. Hughes regarded him as a friend and they met and corresponded with each other for more than twenty years. Hughes also valued his judgment to the extent that he reinstated some dropped Cave Birds poems in the sequence at his instigation and, much later, used him as a sort of "devil's advocate" (Hughes' words) to refine the theory which lies at the heart of Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being. The letters which they exchanged are now in the archives of the British Library.

The Unknown Chef by Mandy Flombay *
1 November, 2006
In a sea of beautiful-looking but often rather daunting celebrity cookbooks, a number of new titles are gaining popularity for their no-frills approach to everyday cooking-Sam Stern’s guides to cooking for teens, Matthew Evan’s Kitchen Basics, and now, Mandy Flombay’s The Unknown Chef.

Wildlife Warrior by Richard Shears *
1 November, 2006
Regardless of whether you liked or loathed the man known as the Crocodile Hunter, his death was a shock.

Who Invented What When by David Ellyard *
1 November, 2006
David Ellyard has written an interesting book in an ordinary fashion.

All Piss And Wind by David Salter *
1 November, 2006
A journalist, columnist and feature writer for Australian yachting magazines, David Salter has kept the offshore sailing fraternity informed and amused with his stories of the sport’s progress and characters for years.

1001 Australians you should know by Toby Creswell & Samantha Trenoweth
1 November, 2006
Toby Creswell, author of 1001 Songs, returns with a new offering.