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May 1987, no. 90
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Full Contents
Fiction
Amy’s Children
by Olga Masters
by
D. J. O’Hearn
Biography
Hear the Train Blow
by Patsy Adam-Smith
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Mythopoesis and the Post-Modernist Crocodile
by
J. A. Mead
Short Stories
The Life That I Have Lead
by Serge Liberman
by
Paul Salzman
Biography
No Children by Choice
by Berwyn Lewis
&
Mature Age Mothers
by Gloria Frydman
by
Judith Brett
War
Gallipoli: One Long Grave
by Kit Denton
by
Robin Gerster
Memoir
The Chase
by Ida Mann
by
Hilary McPhee
Fiction
Dismissals, Public and Private
by
M. J. Campbell
Commentary
And the Winners Are… National Book Council Awards 1987 Judges’ Report
by
Australian Book Review
Fiction
Beyond Redemption
by Jennifer Dabbs
by
Beth Spencer
Politics
The Last Mountain: A Life In Papua New Guinea
by Ian Downs
by
David White
Biography
The Chase
by Ida Mann
by
Hilary McPhee
Biography
Plankton’s Luck: A Life In Retrospect
by Mungo MacCallum
by
Stuart Sayers
Essay Collection
Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory
edited by Carole Pateman and Elizabeth Gross
by
Maria Koundoura
Biography
Elliott: A Biography of John D. Elliott
by Peter Denton
by
Kevin Murray
Film
American Dreams: Australian Movies
by Peter Hamilton and Sue Mathews
by
Graeme Turner
War
Gallipoli – One Long Grave
by Kit Denton
by
Robin Gerster
Biography
Hear the Train Blow
by Patsy Adam-Smith
by
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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