Australian Book Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Australian Book Review on X
Australia's leading literary magazine of reviews, essays, commentary, and creative writing. Home to the Jolley, Porter, and Calibre prizes.
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
Michael MandelbaumAustralian Book Review'Just as the soaring eagle suggests, like many of his colleagues, Mandelbaum’s central thesis is that the United States is different and special – it is always, in the end, exceptional.' @EmmaShortis on Michael Mandelbaum | @OxUniPress https://t.co/IRL8rO3Jmo
Hardcover, 2022
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them
Peter WohllebenAustralian Book Review'This book is distinctive because it serves both as a call to action and a call to inaction.' Ruby Ekkel on 'The Power of Trees' by Peter Wohlleben https://t.co/xbtbBaQ4x1
Hardcover, 2023
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Such Is Life
Joseph FurphyAustralian Book Review‘“Such is life” is a common phrase in Australian popular culture – it has even been tattooed on bodies – but Joseph Furphy’s novel of the same name, published in 1903, is often forgotten.’ Brigid Magner on @TomCollinsAndCo | @SydneyUniPress https://t.co/q1KJm7nSmp
Hardcover, 2022
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
Gary GerstleAustralian Book Review'A splendid and stimulating history of neo-liberalism’s rise and possible "fall"'. Ian Tyrell reviews 'The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order' by @glgerstle | @OxUniPress https://t.co/44QIGQJZNX
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Darryl PinckneyAustralian Book ReviewABR Podcast: out now! Listen to ABR Editor Peter Rose review Darryl Pinckney’s absorbing new memoir, Come Back in September: A literary education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan. https://t.co/uL3w1Qgb4e
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Carmela CiuraruAustralian Book Review'In setting out to document marriages of varying ghastliness between writers, Ciuraru was smart enough not to be bogged in the familiar thickets of Ted-and-Sylvia.' Jacqueline Kent on 'Lives of the Wives' by Carmela Ciuraru | HarperCollins https://t.co/hK4FLrVs4D
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
Danielle Keats CitronAustralian Book Review'Alex became a naked body to future friends, colleagues, acquaintances who happened to google her. ' Jessica Lake reviews 'The Fight for privacy' by Danielle Keats Citron | @DrJessicaCLake @daniellecitron @ChattoBooks https://t.co/HPh9CCriNK
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis StevensonAustralian Book Review‘Kip Williams luxuriates in his source material, betraying a scholarly attentiveness to Stevenson’s language and the culture within which it was formed.’ @guytothewebster on ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ | @SydneyTheatreCo https://t.co/IU30QMpdR3
Paperback, Mass Market, 2012
$5.95$2.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
David I. KertzerAustralian Book Review'As pope (1939–58), Pius prioritised the institutional Church’s survival above all other considerations – even when that meant accommodating unspeakable evil' @Sisto_Sesto on 'The Pope at War' by @DavidKertzer | @OUPAustraliaNZ https://t.co/l4IgkNTkMG
Paperback, 2023
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silverview
John Le CarréAustralian Book Review'In newspapers he was vehement – about the second Iraq War and its compounding human and political cost, about the folly of Brexit (he took Irish citizenship late in his life). But his novels are not tracts.' Morag Fraser on John le Carré | @VikingBooks https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/974-january-february-2022-no-439/8771-morag-fraser-reviews-silverview-by-john-le-carre
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book