Books
This is a cross post from the winter issue of Quarterly Access, a publication of the youth networks of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
By Daniel Wilson
Following the success of journalist George Negus’s two books, The World from Italy and The World from Islam, comes perhaps his most ambitious work, The World from Down Under.
The release of Verge 2010: Other Places was a formal, if underwhelming affair. The Wheeler Centre was prepared for the folk blues of the Allistar McLean Duo (also featuring Sam Zerno), while the wine flowed and the finger food added the academic sophistication to an event mostly attended by students.
Africa United: Soccer, Passion, Politics, and the First World Cup in Africa
A Book by: Steve Bloomfield
So far I have struggled to find a book on the history of football in Africa. There was an impressive chapter written by David Goldblatt in his brilliant book The Ball Is Round, but there was nothing on how African football has developed over time.
Winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize, Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty is a brilliantly written novel with an almost surreal lifelike feel to it. It is also rather dull at times; fortunately these dull times are offset by unexpected twists and a protagonist who is easy to like (at first).
A Book by: Martin Handford
Where’s Wally books. At school and municipal libraries they were invariably among the most popular books available (much to the chagrin of the librarians). In the days before computers, when ‘Date Due’ slips were attached to the inside covers of every book, Wally books were always stamped and re-stamped at near weekly intervals. Even when libraries had multiple copies of them, they were difficult to get hold of.
