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Issue Details:
First known date:
1936...
vol.
8
no.
12
1 December
1936
of
All About Books
est. 1928
All About Books
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Notes
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Cover photograph: J. B. Priestley
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Includes a two page spread of Amalgamated Press Christmas Annuals including sketches of the covers and brief description of the content.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1936 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Changes in Reading Tastes: From Fiction to Facts,
single work
criticism
Writer attributes a perceived change in reader tastes away from fiction to be directly attributable to the end of insularity and the disillusionment following the First World War and to the [pre-Second World War] upheaval in Europe.
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Fellowship of Australian Writers, Sydney [Meeting Report],
single work
column
Report of the 18 November meeting to which Rees and Franklin contributed. Includes Rees' account of his conversation with Richardson in England.
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Alice Grant Rosman,
single work
review
— Review of Mother of the Bride 1936 single work novel ; (p. 196) -
All Sorts of Fun: Books For Boys and Girls,
single work
review
— Review of Circus Ring 1936 single work ; (p. 198, 206) -
Some Interesting Travel Books,
single work
review
— Review of Tyrolean June : A Summer Holiday in Austrian Tyrol 1936 single work prose ; (p. 203) -
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report],
single work
column
Report of the November meeting where Ross gave a performance of works by several poets including Kendall and Spencer.
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