In the second part of this three-part series examining the typical portrayal of domestic and family violence in Australia, Michael Ord considers the deficiencies of its portrayal and the possible shortfalls in the responses, by way of a review of a research paper from Sydney Law School Legal Studies. The paper, written by Patrick Parkinson, Judi Cashmore and Judi Single, is titled…

  GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee (William Heinemann, London, 2015) Hardcover: 288 pages ISBN: 9781785150289 Price: AUD$45.00   Reviewed by Jeffry Babb   Arresting titles and first lines often set the scene for a book, from “Call me Ishmael” in Moby Dick to “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” in A Tale of Two Cities.…

  ORDERLY AND HUMANE: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R.M. Douglas (Yale UP, New Haven, 2013) Paperback: 504 pages ISBN: 9780300198201 Price: AUD$45.95   Reviewed by Bill James   This was, by the author’s admission, a difficult book to write, or at least to explain to his academic colleagues, and it is also a difficult book to…