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Title

Best (overlooked) books 2010

Author(s)

Farrelly, Nicholas;  Lawson, Sylvia;  Doggett, Jennifer;  Chubb, Danielle;  Lynch, Andrew;  Gruen, Nicholas;  Thomas, Julian;  Sweet, Melissa;  Given, Jock;  Kitson, Jill;  Eltham, Ben;  Johnstone, Richard;  Scambary, James;  Brookes, Stephanie Younane;  Mares, Peter;  Hayes, David;  Orr, Graeme;  Russell, Lesley;  Ewing, Scott;  Browne, Peter;  Nicholls, Glenn;  Langmore, John;  Lane, Terry;  Bongiorno, Frank;  Taylor, Savitri;  Abjorensen, Norman;  Dowse, Sara;  McFarlane, Brian;  Besemeres, John;  Altman, Dennis;  Griffiths, Tom;  Bonnor, Chris;  Crossley Ratcliffe, Christina

Abstract

Well, not all of them were entirely overlooked, but we definitely read them during 2010. Inside Story contributors nominate the best overlooked books of 2010 - the books you might not have heard about but are worth considering for holiday reading. Nicholas Farrelly reviews the book ' Nothing to envy: love, life and death in North Korea' by Barbara Demick, published by Harper Collins, Sydney, 2010; Sylvia Lawson reviews the book 'Not entitled' by Frank Kermode, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999; Jennifer Doggett reviews the book 'The rational optimist' by Matt Ridley, published by Fourth Estate, London, 2010; Danielle Chubb reviews the book 'The idea of justice' by Amartya Sen, published by Penguin, London, 2010; Andrew Lynch reviews the book 'The flight of the intellectuals' by Paul Berman, published by Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2010; Nicholas Gruen reviews the book 'Obliquity: why our goals are best achieved indirectly' by John Kay, published by Profile Books, 2010; Julian Thomas reviews the book 'Pirate modernity: Delhi’s media urbanism' by Ravi Sundaram, published by Routledge, 2009; Melissa Sweet reviews the book 'My blood’s country' by Fiona Capp, published by Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2010; Jock Given reviews the book 'The Lady Matador’s Hotel' by Cristina García, published by Scribner, 2010; Jill Kitson reviews the book 'Troubles' by J. G. Farrell, published by Phoenix House, 1993; Ben Eltham reviews the book 'Four fish: the story of fishing and what's left to eat' by Paul Greenberg, published by Penguin, Camberwell, 2010; Richard Johnstone reviews the book 'The flavour thesaurus: pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook' by Niki Segnit, published by Bloomsbury, London, 2010; James Scambary reviews the book 'Locus Solus' by Raymond Roussel, published in 1914; Stephanie Younane Brookes reviews the book 'Noah’s compass' by Anne Tyler, published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2009; Peter Mares reviews the book 'Transport for suburbia: beyond the automobile age' by Paul Mees, published by Earthscan, London, 2010; David Hayes reviews the book 'Passport to Peking: a very British mission to Mao’s China' by Patrick Wright, published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010; Graeme Orr reviews the book 'Fields of Glory' by Jean Rouaud, published by Arcade Publishing, New York, 1993; Lesley Russell reviews the book 'My father’s paradise: a son's search for his family’s past' by Ariel Sabar, published by Algonquin Books, 2008; Scott Ewing reviews the book 'When the lights went out' by Andy Beckett, published by Faber & Faber, London, 2009; Peter Browne reviews the book 'The Checklist Manifesto' by Atul Gawande, published by Profile, London, 2010; Glenn Nicholls reviews the book 'Snowed under' by Antje Rávic Strubel, published by Red Hen, 2008; John Langmore reviews the book 'Europe: a history' by Norman Davies, published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996; Terry Lane reviews the book 'Hero: the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia' by Michael Korda, published by Harper Collins, New York, 2010; Frank Bongiorno reviews the book 'The end of the party' by Andrew Rawnsley, published by Penguin, 2011; Savitri Taylor reviews the book 'The idea of justice' byAmartya Sen, published by Penguin, London, 2010; Norman Abjorensen reviews the book ' They called him Old Smoothie' by Peter Golding, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2009; Sara Dowse reviews the book 'Erasing Iraq: the human costs of carnage' by Michael Otterman, Richard Hil and Paul Wilson, published by Pluto Press, London, 2010; Brian McFarlane reviews the book 'Arguments with England' by Michael Blakemore, published by Faber & Faber, London, 2005; John Besemeres reviews the book 'Reflections on the revolution in Europe: immigration, Islam and the West' by Christopher Caldwell, published by Penguin, London, 2010; Dennis Altman reviews the book 'The end of the World Book' by Alistair McCartney, published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2008; Tom Griffiths reviews the book 'A three-cornered life' by Jim Davidson, published by UNSW Press, Sydney, 2010; Chris Bonnor reviews the book 'More than luck: ideas Australia needs now' edited by Mark Davis and Miriam Lyons, published by the Centre for Policy Development, Sydney, 2010; Christina Crossley Ratcliffe reviews the book 'Against the odds' by Marjolijn Hof , published by Groundwood Books, Toronto, 2009.

Publication type

Commentary

Source

Inside Story, 23 December 2010

Publication year

2010

Keyword(s)

Book reviews

Publisher

Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

ISSN

1837-0497

Publisher URL

http://inside.org.au/best-overlooked-books-2010/

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 by Inside Story and contributors. The published version is reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.

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