Must-reads of 2018
From fiction to crime to history, essays, memoir and literary letters, the NRB editors choose ten of the reviews we published in 2018 of books we think deserve to go on...
Read MoreHENRY REYNOLDS This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan
In this book Henry Reynolds shows that today’s white activists for justice for Indigenous people are inheritors of a long tradition. Reynolds’s first book about...
Read MoreDAVID STEPHENS AND ALISON BROINOWSKI (eds) The Honest History Book. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress
This is a passionate argument for a wider Australian history. Never have so many ringing phrases from so many historians rung so true. Every weekend I drive down Anzac...
Read MoreHENRY REYNOLDS Unnecessary Wars. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress
Unnecessary Wars provides a powerful antidote to the pervasive militarising of Australian history over the past 20 years. Not how, but why, is the most compelling...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on history
I wrote in a previous column about my love of historical novels but, while scanning the History channel in search of something to watch, I realised with a new clarity...
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