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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 14-15 January 2006 of The Sydney Morning Herald est. 1842 The Sydney Morning Herald
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Fiction as Reality Check, Malcolm Knox , single work criticism
Malcolm Knox argues that innovative language defines great writing. He illustrates his argument by comparing specific phrases from Andrew McGahan's The White Earth, Kate Grenville's The Secret River, Delia Falconer's The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and American novelist Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.
 (p. 17-18) Section: Spectrum
Beauty in the Smallest Glimpses, A. P. Riemer , single work review
— Review of Notebooks 1970-2003 Murray Bail , 2005 selected work diary prose ; (p. 19) Section: Spectrum
It's Time to Barrack for Local Writers, Susan Wyndham , single work column
A column canvassing current literary news including the announcement of the sale of Lothian Books to the Time Warner Book Group.
 (p. 19) Section: Spectrum
All-Singing, All-Dancing Look Beyond the Facade of Public Housing, Stephen Dunne , single work review
— Review of StickybrickS Big hArt , 2006 single work drama ; (p. 19)
One in the Eye for the PC Brigade, Alan Atkinson , single work review
— Review of The Poor Man : Being Some Account of the Extraordinary Adventures Met with, of the Strange Sights Seen, and the Curious Things Heard, by Mr. Redde Pepper, in His Search after that Much Injured Individual Redde Pepper , 1864 single work novel ; (p. 21) Section: Spectrum
Treasure Troves and Nonsense Rhymes, Mark McCann , single work review
— Review of The Book of Changing Things and Other Oddibosities Odo Hirsch , 2005 single work children's fiction ; (p. 22) Section: Spectrum
In Short : Fiction, Michael McGirr , single work review
— Review of A Ticket for Perpetual Locomotion: or, Eduardo's Perpetual Locomotors Geoffrey Gates , 2005 single work novel ; The Black Dress : Mary MacKillop's Early Years Pamela Freeman , 2005 single work novel ; (p. 22) Section: Spectrum
In Short : Non-Fiction, Bruce Elder , single work review
— Review of Leaving a Legacy : The Autobiography of Gordon Moyes Gordon Moyes , 2005 single work autobiography ; Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land Donald Thomson , 1983 single work autobiography ; The Last Explorer : Hubert Wilkins : Australia's Unknown Hero Simon Nasht , 2005 single work biography ; (p. 23) Section: Spectrum
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