Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Ratline: Love, lies and justice on the trail of a Nazi fugitive by Philippe Sands
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
Nigel Westlake’s new quartet, Sacred Sky, commissioned by the Australian String Quartet, had its première before an enthusiastic audience at Sydney’s Recital Hall on 4 September 2019. Westlake wrote it in honour of his sister, the artist Kate Westlake, who died of pancreatic cancer in January 2018 ...
... (read more)The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt edited by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov
To celebrate the best books of 2018, Australian Book Review invited nearly forty contributors to nominate their favourite titles. Contributors include Michelle de Kretser
... (read more)A Spy Named Orphan: The enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
I don’t watch the World Cup or even Wimbledon, so I may have some Australian gene missing. But by the time the string quartet winners were announced at the end of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition last week, I had become a fan, almost a barracker. I was rooting for the ...
... (read more)Red Flag Unfurled: History, historians, and the Russian Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
To celebrate the best books of 2017 Australian Book Review invited nearly forty contributors to nominate their favourite titles. Contributors include Michelle de Kretser, Susan Wyndham, James Ley, Geordie Williamson, Jane Sullivan, Tom Griffiths, Mark Edele, and Brenda Niall.
... (read more)Jolley Prize, Fay Zwicky (1933-2017), Miles Franklin Award shortlist, Porter Prize, Conversational Calibre, Memoirs of historians, Philip Roth ...
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