Book Review Archive

2012

Month
 Book Title
 Author
 PDF
April
The rough guide to cult pop Paul Simpson (ed)
 73Kb
February
 In the firing line: diary of a season
Ed Cowan 62Kb

2011

Month
 Book Title
 Author
 PDF
November
Guiness World Records 2012

55Kb
October
 Potato: A global history 
 Andrew F. Smith 51Kb
September
 The Atlas of Sports: who plays what, where and why Alan Tomlinson 56Kb
August
 Music
 Andrew Zuckerman 56Kb
June
 Dinosaurs in Australia: Mesozoic life from the Southern Continent
 Benjamin P. Kear and Robert J. Hamilton-Bruce 37Kb
May
 Sharks and Rays of Australia
Peter R. Last and John D. Stevens  38Kb
April
 The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music
 Colin Larkin 84Kb
March
 Outback Legends John Dunn 84Kb
February
 Capturing the Northern Territory’s Top End and Capturing the Northern Territory’s Kakadu National Park  Paul Arnold 82Kb


2010
Month
 Book Title
 Author
 PDF
November
 Hot: Life in the Australian outback
 Thijs Heslenfeld 66Kb
October
 The Gallipoli letter
 Keith Murdoch 72Kb
September
 Listening to Country
 Ros Moriarty 54Kb
August
 Saltwater Fella
 John Moriarty 62Kb
July
 Girls like us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the journey of a generation
 Sheila Weller 56Kb
June
 Miller’s Collectables Handbook 2010-2011
 Judith Miller & Mark Hill 76Kb
May
 From Hipsters to Gonzo: how new journalism rewrote the world
 Marc Weingarten, 2005 81Kb
April
 Boeing 787 Dreamliner
 Guy Norris and Mark Wagner, 2009 48Kb
March
 Playlisted
 Craig Mathieson, 2009 61Kb
February
 Print is dead: books in our digital age
 Jeff Gomez, 2008 72Kb
January
 Balibo
 Jill Jolliffe 2009 56Kb

2009
Month
 Book Title
 Author
 PDF
November Stand your ground – life & football
Kevin Sheedy 77Kb
October
 Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack 2009
 Scyld Berry (ed) 55Kb
September
 The complete book of the Olympics 2008 edition
 David Wallechinsky and Jaime Louky 66Kb
August
 First man: the life of Neil A. Armstrong
 James Hansen, 2006 57Kb
July
 A Better place to live: making the Top End a new kind of community
 Diana Giese 66Kb
May
 Red Centre, Dark Heart
 Philip Jones 49Kb
April
 Ochre and Rust: artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers
 Evan McHugh 52Kb
March
 The Hitler book: the secret dossier prepared for Stalin from the interrogations of Hitler’s closest personal aides
 Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl (eds) 67Kb
February
 Australia under attack: the bombing of Darwin - 1942
 Douglas Lockwood 61Kb
January
 Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography revised edition

 Carment, David; Christine Edward, et al 57Kb

2008
Month
 Book Title
 Author
 PDF
December
 Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists
 Vivien Johnson 62Kb
November
 Left for dead: how I survived 71 days lost in the outback
 Ricky Megee with Greg McLean
 57Kb
October
 No turning back
 Joanne Lees
 46Kb
September
 Icons of the Territory
 Shirley Brown
 55Kb
August
 Outback heart
 Joanne van Os
 48Kb
July
 The  killer  within: inside the world of Bradley John Murdoch
 Paul Toohey 54Kb
June
 The 1970s Kelly Boyer Sagert 61Kb
April
 Anzacs and Ireland Jeff Kildea
 49Kb
March
 In the hot zone: one man, one year, twenty wars Kevin Sites 48Kb
February
 A woman in charge: the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Carl Bernstein 57Kb

2007
Month
 Book Title
 Author
 PDF
December Awake in the dark: forty years of reviews, essays, and interviews Roger Ebert 48Kb
November Who killed Channel 9? The death of Kerry Packer’s mighty TV dream machine Gerald Stone 46Kb
October Caterpillar Club Survivor: lost in the Top End Ross Smith Stagg
 47Kb
September Walkabout chefs: a fresh look at Aboriginal bush foods Steve Sunk & David Hancock 47Kb
August Fear of music: the 261 greatest albums since punk and disco Garry Mulholland
 82Kb
July
 The Search: how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture John Battell 47Kb