My Last Drink: 32 stories of recovering alcoholics; Ross Fitzgerald and Neal Price (eds) Connor Court Publishing, Queensland, 2022 ISBN:9781922815224 RRP: $29.95 Reviewed by Alan Gregory This is a grim, but often highly entertaining, read as 32 recovering alcoholics tell the story of how they survived alcoholism. All contributors to My Last Drink accept the [...]
Head Trauma – The Bruising Diary of a Head Teacher By Nick Smith Michael O’Mara Books Limited 2022 ISBN 978-1789293692 RRP: $34.99 (HB) Reviewed by Anne Henderson This is a book for those who despair of any news that teaching is more than a losing battle in the achievement of high standards in literacy [...]
MY ACCIDENTAL CAREER By Brenda Niall Text Publishing, 2022 ISBN: 9781922458148 RRP: $34.99 (pb) Reviewed by Gerard Henderson Thanks to the (anonymous) Private Eye (4 November 2022) reviewer of Suleika Dawson’s The Secret Heart: John Le Carré: An Intimate Memoir for reminding readers of the old gag: Question: “How do you know someone [...]
JOHN CURTIN By David Lee Connor Court Publishing (Australian Biographical Monographs 16), 2022 ISBN - 9781922815095 RRP: $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Keith Harvey What a great idea Connor Court’s Australian Biographical Monographs are. They are short, readable biographies of notable Australian politicians designed to present an introductory overview of each chosen subject. In [...]
AGATHA CHRISTIE – A VERY ELUSIVE WOMAN By Lucy Worsley Hodder & Stoughton 2022 ISBN: 9781529303889 RRP: $34.99 (PB) Reviewed by Anne Henderson Dr Lucy Worsley is joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces but best known as a presenter for BBC TV of a number of series on historical topics and in particular historical figures of note. [...]
Bob Hawke By Mike Steketee Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd, 2022 ISBN: 9781922815200 RRP: $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Paul Henderson The Australian Biographical Monographs series covers the lives and roles of many Australian political leaders. As Mike Steketee, a former chief political correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald base in Canberra and political editor, [...]
ABOUT TIME – A HISTORY OF CIVILISATION IN TWELVE CLOCKS By David Rooney Penguin Books 2022 ISBN: 978 0 241 37051 3 RRP: $22.99 (PB) Reviewed by Anne Henderson In Lewis Carroll’s classic story of Alice and her adventures in Wonderland, time is a key player. The white rabbit that lures Alice down the [...]
