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Reviews of Carry Me Down, Great Australian Racing Stories, The Story of Christianity and Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia
A day at the museum
Peter Pierce identifies a salutary failure in Rowan Metcalfe’s Transit of Venus.
Last past the post
E.J Banfield
Peter Pierce examines Roland Perry’s Monash: The outsider who won a war.
Luke Fraser reviews On the warpath: An anthology of Australian military travel, edited by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce.
Peter Pierce is troubled by the uncertain tone in Helen Nolan’s Between the Battles
Reviews of the books Labour of Love: Tales from the World of Midwives; The Long, Slow Death of White Australia and The Dead Place.
Peter Pierce salutes Joy Damousi, author of Freud in the Antipodes: A cultural history of psychoanalysis in Australia.
Peter Pierce reviews Colin Dyer’s The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839 and Bruce Poulson’s Recherche Bay: A History.
Peter Pierce is entertained by Joe Queenan’s Queenan Country and Roger Law’s Still Spitting at Sixty.
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