Kara Nicholson
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Review — 30 Sep 2012
Fallout From Fukushima by Richard Broinowski
[[richard-broinowski-rev]]I was part-way through reading Fallout from Fukushima when BHP Billiton announced it was going to scrap plans to expand uranium mining operations at Olympic Dam. CEO Marius Kloppers identified…
Review — 20 Aug 2012
Money Shot: A Journey Into Porn And Censorship by Jeff Sparrow
Money Shot is one of the most thought-provoking, intelligent and entertaining non-fiction books I’ve read in a long time.
Jeff Sparrow, editor of Overland and co-author of Radical Melbourne…
Review — 29 Jul 2012
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day
[[david-day4]]Chapter 11 of this epic biography of the frozen continent is titled ‘This bloody flag-raising business’ and this sentiment just about sums up the content of David Day’s latest work…
Review — 2 Jul 2012
The Oldest Song in the World by Sue Woolfe
[[sue_woolfe_2]]Kate is a linguistics student from Sydney and she is asked by her lecturer to travel to a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory to record the song of…
Review — 28 May 2012
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
[[karen-walker]]I’m not usually a fan of the dystopian fiction genre and I have to admit to being sceptical about the hype surrounding the release of this novel. A publishing bidding…
Review — 28 May 2012
This Is How by Augusten Burroughs
After six autobiographies, Augusten Burroughs has written a self-help book. Psychology, for better or worse, was a fundamental part of his upbringing, so perhaps it is no surprise that This…