Book Reviews

A review of Distillations of Different Lands by Andrew Lansdown I met Andrew Lansdown in 1974 when I was trying to teach Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology and he was the best [...]

A review of Return of the Heroes: The Lord of The Rings, Star Wars and Contemporary Culture by Hal Colebatch, published by the Australian Institute for Public Policy. Return of the Heroes is a [...]

There are some authors you know will not disappoint, and so you eagerly await their next volume. Historian and sociologist of religion Rodney Stark is one such writer whose growing library of [...]

Cory Bernardi, The Conservative Revolution, Connor Court, 2013. Unlike perhaps ninety per cent of the haters bashing Cory Bernardi on various websites, I actually have his new book and have [...]

A review of Cruel and Usual Punishment by Nonie Darwish (Thomas Nelson, 2008) Nonie Darwish knows a fair amount about Islam. She was an Egyptian Muslim for the first 30 years of her life. Then [...]

We in the West are constantly being told that Islam is a religion of tolerance and peace. Indeed, the greater the atrocities committed in the name of Islam, the greater the protestations by [...]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia to devout Muslim parents and was enclosed by Islam for the first 22 years of her life, which she spent variously in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya. [...]

A slaughter calculated to terrify non-Muslims throughout Holland took place in Amsterdam on Tuesday morning, 2 November 2004. While riding a bicycle to his film studio, Theo van Gogh, a distant [...]

Bookreview: Mark Steyn, America Alone – Regnery Publishing, Washington, 2005.   Another book by the wittiest as well as probably the most prolific commentator of quality in the world today [...]