Book Reviews

From Changi to the Tower of London

Proud Australian Boy: A Biography of Russell Braddon

by Nigel Starck

Australian Scholarly Publishing, $34.95 pb, 284 pp, 9781921875403

(Published in Australian Book Review, February 2012, No.338)

GOLUPTIOUS CLASSICS

G.K. Chesterton, The Best of Father Brown, Selected by H.R.F.Keating, London, Dent & Sons, 1992.$11

Oscar Wilde, Plays, Prose Writings and Poems, London, Dent & Sons 1991.$15.95

Guy de Maupassant, The House of Madame Tellier and Other Stories, London Dent & Sons 1992. $13

(Published in Mattoid Issue 44 No. 3 1992/93)

LARRIKINS AND VAMPIRES: THE AUSTRALIAN PSYCHE ON TRIAL

Australian Cultural History No. 12

Crimes and Trials

Deakin University $13 ISSN 0728-8433

Ellen Davitt

Force and Fraud: A Tale of the Bush

Mulini Press ISBN 0949910 36 8

(Australian Book Review No. 154 September 1993)

THE VIEW FROM WHERE YOU ARE

Ernest G. Moll, The View From a Ninetieth Birthday (La Jolla Poets Press, 1992, $10)

Marguerite Varday, Spiral (Medal Poets, 1992, $7)

Geoff Page, Gravel Corners (Angus & Robertson, 1992, $14.95)

Peter Gebhardt, Secretary to Praise (Webber's Publishers, 1992)

Warrick Wynne, Lost Things & Other Poems (Butterfly Books, 1992, $11.95)

Timoshenko Aslanides, Australian Alphabet (Butterfly Books, 1992, $11.95)

(Southerly, Number 4, 1992)

RETURN OF THE LONG TITLE

Jill Jones, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press, 1992, $14.95)

P.R. Hay, The View From the Non-Members'Bar (Hazard Press, 1992, $14.95)

Margaret Diesendorf, Holding the Golden Apple (with a preface by Jacques Delaruelle, Phoenix Publications, 1991)

Jean Stone, Occasions for Comment (Red Rooster Press, 1992, limited edition obtainable from Young Street Poets, 70 Galston Road, Hornsby 2077, $8.90 includes postage)

Vera Newsom, The Apple and the Serpent (Hale & Iremonger, 1992, $14.95)

Christopher Kelen, The Naming of the Harbour & The Trees (Hale & Iremonger, 1992, $14.95)

(Southerly Vol. 53 No. 1 March 1993)

THREE OF THE BEST FROM UQP

Andrew Taylor, Folds in the Map. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1991.

David Malouf, Poems 1959-89. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1992.

Dorothy Porter, Akhenaten. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1992.

(Mattoid Issue No.46/47 1994)