Politics and a Man by Percy Spender review
The book surveys eight years of Spender's political rise and wartime governance, focusing on UAP and Coalition intrigues. It blends frank personal recollections with judgment on leaders like Hughes, Menzies, Lyons, and Curtin, while noting omissions on broader party dynamics and postwar policy.
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Percy
House of Representatives
LAP
Archdale Parkhill
Sir Percy
Darlinghurst
North Shore
Korea
Vietnam
West Irian
Canberra
Washington
Uap-Country Party
ALP
Scullin
Hughes
Evatts
Curtin
Menzies
Lyons
Country Party
Page
Menvies
Fadden
Spender
Cameron
Lige
Life of a family in Moscow reviewed diary style
Book reevaluates Mildred Watt and her imagined life of a Moscow family from 1905 to 1963. It blends social history with a fictional family saga, highlighting intelligentsia hardship, revolutions, purges, and World War II while criticizing the tender, sentimental portrayal and lack of vivid dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Mildred Watt
Soviet Union
Stalin
Lady Watt
Aresander UI
Russia
Kolyat
Irinushka
Jina
Go Ask Alice review and related titles from 1960s UK edition
Anonymous author reviews Go Ask Alice based on a teenage diary of a girl drawn into drugs at a middle class school and possibly dying from an overdose. The piece praises the diary’s literary quality and emotional impact while noting uncertainty over how much of the writing is the author’s. It also advertises the Faber paperback and briefly surveys This title and related sex education guides by Llewellyn-Jones.
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Alice
Vietnam
USA
Anne Frank
AJOW
Faber
Derek Llewellyn-Jones
Llewellyn- Jones
Aboriginal Myths by Bozic and Marshall review
A critical survey of Aboriginal Myths by Sreten Bozic and Alan Marshall. The review denounces heavy photography over text and argues the book fails to bridge cultural gaps, underestimate myth depth, and misrepresent Aboriginal storytelling while acknowledging some value in preserving narratives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sreten Bozic
Alan Marshall
Gold Star
Territory
Bozic
Mulluk
Strehlow
Aranda
K. Langlob Parker
George MacDonald
Oni
Meséra Bozic
Marshall
Parker
Bovie and Marshall
Remember
Australia
The K Section review taints Tom Lilley’s colonial thriller
A critical look at The K Section by Tom Lilley set in a British Malaya inspired colony. The plot features Carter the police Superintendent fighting communist subversion and ends with a catastrophic assassination. The critique notes overfamiliar tropes and flawed credibility despite an authentic police background.
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Tom Lilley
Special Branch
Lilley
Malaya
Authentem
Cather Pawl
Pepe Kbecisny
Aut
Siegpore
Matukim
Leenon
Carter
Tamaranga Augustine
Tne Marakis
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Guinea
Buin
Perew
Marrate
Hew
Hionn Press
Lally Watt
Kolva
Lady Wath
Japan
John Vernon Lord
Janet Burroway
Cape
Exore Methuen
London
Prentice - Hall
Shpenuinely
Norther
Richardson
MacMillan
Guy Fawkes
Athe
Christie
Jesus
Brightson
Pender
Barnaby and the Rocket
Robert Carrier Cosko
Biender
Canberra City
Rine
RENTA
David Jones
Canberra Theatre
CIVIC
Pacific
Indian
Morton Halpern
Brookings Institution
Soedjatmoko
National Development Board
Indonesia
New Mcinnes
Paris
Bureau of
We! Street Journal
Dennis Altman
University of Sydney
Hedley Bull
Australian National University
Twe
Australian Institute OF Political
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MSW
Melbourne
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