The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City Geremie R. Barme Profile Books, $39.95

Down To Earth For Just An Hour

THE University of Newcastle's 27,000 staff and students are being encouraged to give the books a rest and turn their computers off for an hour on Saturday March 29.

Griffith Review, Re-imagining Australia

Griffith Review, Re-imagining Australia Ed., Julianne Schultz Griffith University. ABC Books $19.95

Mcewan Goes Out On Limb For Tasmania's Trees

BRITISH novelist Ian McEwan has always liked to have his say - in his books and in public. In the 1980s he was part of the anti-nuclear movement and campaigned against the government of Margaret Thatcher.