I use two (non-electronic) telephone and address books, both old and battered, one slightly smaller than the other. One is alphabetised, one isn’t. Why I have two is a...
Read MoreThis true crime account attempts to explain the mind of a manipulative killer. It’s a cliché, but in this case it’s apt; if you came across a scenario like...
Read MoreDawn Barker’s novel is an insightful and devastating story of mental illness. Anna and Tony Patton seem to have it all: great careers, a loving marriage and their...
Read MoreProbably no one under 60 is closely familiar now with the BBC Radio quiz program My Word. Immensely popular in its day, the program ran from 1956 to 1967 on BBC1 and...
Read MoreKate Forsyth’s new novel takes us beneath and beyond the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm. This novel offers the reader an enormous surprise. What seems a simple...
Read MoreA return to Patti Miller’s childhood home in country New South Wales sparks this investigation of place, identity and dispossession. ‘D’ya have any blackfella in...
Read MoreRecently I tried to distract and entertain a friend laid up with a severely broken ankle by setting him a series of ten-question quizzes devised off the top of my head....
Read MoreThe greatest mystery is the human brain, and Oliver Sacks is the ultimate detective. Oliver Sacks is a neurologist who writes with the imagination of a poet and with...
Read MoreHistory, mystery, truth and fiction; these two books expose the underbelly of south-east Queensland. In complete control of the genre, Matt Condon adds his own secret...
Read MoreI’ve been lucky with reviewers, lucky even in their mistakes. A recent positive review of my current Cliff Hardy novel The Dunbar Case credited me with four Ned Kelly...
Read MoreThis sure, funny novel of an Indigenous woman and her land is alive with the tensions of new ways of belonging. Meaning is a messy act. Its fusing of memory, testimony...
Read MoreLies, puritans and hypocrites: England’s class system and the notorious Profumo Affair of the early 1960s. I can safely say I’ve never read a book with as many...
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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 { What did you think of the TV series of "Bosch", Peter? I found the first episodes difficult - as the splendidly named actor playing Harry... } – The Godfather: Peter Corris on retrospectives, 09 Feb 18, 8:44 pm