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Miriam Estensen, Discovery: The Quest for the Great South Land, 1998, St Leonards, Allen & Unwin, hb, 286 pp, $29.95. Mark Finnane, Punishment in Australian Society, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1997, pb, 186 pp, $24.95. Anna Rutherford and James Wieland (eds), War: Australia's Creative Response, St Leonards, Allen & Unwin, 1997, pb, xii + 356 pp, $29.95. K S Inglis, assisted by Jan Brazier, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 1998, hb, 544 pp, $49.95. E Osborne, Torres Strait Islander Women and the Pacific War, Canberra, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997, pb, xv + 271 pp, $29.95. Stuart Macintyre, The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1998, hb, xii + 482 pp, $49.95. Andrew Spaull, John Dedman: A Most Unexpected Labor Man, Melbourne, Hyland House, 1998, pb, xi + 219 pp, $29.95. Meredith Burgmann and Verity Burgmann, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation, Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 1998, pb, 352 + xiv pp, $29.95. Peter FitzSimons, Beazley: A Biography, Sydney, Harper‐Collins, 1998, hb, 467 pp, $39.95. James Jupp, Immigration, second edition, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, pb, v + 210 pp, $29.95. Barry York, Maltese in Australia: Wanderings through the Maltese‐Australian Story from Convict Times to the Present, Melbourne, Europe‐Australia Institute, Victoria University of Technology, 1998, pb, 146 pp, $15.00. Maltese Voices Down Under: Memories of Malta and Gozo and the Voyage to Australia, accompanying audio CD, 1998, $25.00, cassette version, $20.00. Both are obtainable from the Europe‐Australia Institute, VUT, PO Box 14428 MCMC, Melbourne, Victoria. Anthony Milner and Mary Quilty (eds), Episodes, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, pb, xi + 236 pp, $29.95. Elena Gover, Australia in the Russian Mirror, 1997, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, pb, xx + 275 pp, $29.95. Roslyn Russell, Literary Links: Celebrating the Literary Relationship between Australian and Britain, Sydney and London, Allen & Unwin, 1997, pb, 249 pp, $29.95. Roslynn D Haynes, Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film, Melbourne,Cambridge University Press, 1998, hb, 320 pp, $39.95. Marion Halligan and Rosanne Fitzgibbon (eds), The Gift of Story: Three decades of UQP short stories, St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1998, pp xiii + 466, cased, $22.95. Jane Long, Jan Gothard, Helen Brash (eds), Forging Identities: Bodies, Gender and Feminist History, Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1997, pb, xx + 251 pp, $24.95. Veronica Brady, South of My Days: A Biography of Judith Wright, Sydney, Harper Collins, 1998, hb, xii + 562 pp, $39.95.