WENDY JAMES The Mistake. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
There’s more than one side to this story of a mother accused of murdering her child. It’s impossible to read Wendy James’s fourth novel and not think of the real-life...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on the old days of journalism
I was the literary editor of the National Times for almost three years, from 1979 to 1981. I was given the job by Anne Summers who had held it for some time and for...
Read MoreCrime Scene: CAROL O’CONNELL The Chalk Girl
‘Before Lisbeth Salander, there was Kathy Mallory.’ So it says on the front cover of The Chalk Girl, and so it is. Set in New York, the first Mallory novel was...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on authors, publicity and festivals
Popular Australian writers of the 30s, 40s and 50s rarely appeared in public, were heard on radio or seen in the early days of television. Writers like Arthur Upfield,...
Read MoreCHARLOTTE WOOD Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the gift of food. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
From how to make pastry to the ethics of eating, Charlotte Wood inspires with her passion for food. The best food writers are those who delight in the preparation of...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on the bookshops of Newtown
I doubt there is any precinct in Sydney better supplied with new and second-hand bookshops than Newtown. There are hundreds of thousands of second-hand books at Gould’s...
Read MoreLINDY CAMERON Redback
A girls’-own-adventure with the lot. A beautiful-yet-deadly commander of a crack retrieval team; terrorists of US, European, Arabic and Asian strains; high-tech comms...
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{ I'm with you Julia. And I extend that to the aggressively English accents (whatever they are) you hear on BBC radio. I feel I am... } – The Godfather: Peter Corris on accents, 25 Feb 18, 6:01 pm
{ I thought it pretty common knowledge that anyone who pronounced 'aitch' as 'haitch' was of blue collar, Catholic background - as I'm now in my... } – The Godfather: Peter Corris on accents, 23 Feb 18, 1:41 pm
{ I would add that any politician who feels the need to be accompanied at a television interview by a 'noddy', or even worse, two 'noddies'... } – The Godfather: Peter Corris on disqualifications, 16 Feb 18, 1:53 pm
{ Agree wholeheartedly - especially point #3 } – The Godfather: Peter Corris on disqualifications, 16 Feb 18, 11:01 am
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