Synopses & Reviews
The first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship, this enlightening and enthralling discussion is based on Nicole Moores discovery of the secret "censors library" in the National Archives. Combining scholarship with the narrative tension of a thriller, the book exposes the scandalous history of censorship in Australia. Built and maintained to ensure the books it held were not read—from the Kama Sutra to Lawrences Lady Chatterleys Lover and Joyces Ulysses—the censors library was kept to negate the function of libraries: 793 boxes kept safe and intact for six decades. Through courtroom dramas and internecine bureaucracy, stolen libraries and police raids, authorial scandals and moral panics, this is a provocative account on a subject that continues to attract heated debate.
About the Author
Nicole Moore is an associate professor in English at the University of New South Wales. She is the coauthor of Banned in Australia and the contributing editor to the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature for the Period 1900-1950.