A Sunday birthday lunch, old and young gathered around the table. A child asks an adult what she’s doing when it’s perfectly obvious what she’s doing. ‘Making a wigwam...
Read MoreSydney in the 1890s: shame, syphilis and infanticide. If you were unmarried and pregnant, or married and unable to afford another child, you had very few choices in...
Read MoreHallucinatory, worldly and entertaining science fiction with a lot to say about the human condition. Michael Kearny is a particle physicist working on developing...
Read MoreWhen I was very young, say seven or eight, my father worked in Bruce Small’s bike shop in Moonee Ponds, the north-western Melbourne suburb made famous by Barry...
Read MoreThe second novel from the author of Secrets of the Tides explores the sinister legacy of an idealistic experiment. It is 1980 and five university students coming to...
Read MoreThis mystery is set in a Columbia emerging from the drug wars and haunted by memory and loss. The Sound of Things Falling, a noir fiction account of Colombia’s drug...
Read MoreA writer and his agent were having lunch in an up-market London restaurant a few years ago. The agent was paying. They started with oyster soup and moved on to Dover...
Read MoreThings that go bump in the night add to the suspense in this cautionary tale of young adult friendships. Marketed as Young Adult, Sweet Damage is the second novel from...
Read MoreA nuanced and thoroughly original novella about the special link between mother and son. A newly widowed Tasmanian woman travels to Sydney to start a new life and...
Read MoreA section of the wooden front gate has fallen off and now lies on the ground inside the fence. I’ve tried twice to nail it back without success. I am not handy; in fact...
Read MoreFrom Mugabe’s Zimbabwe to the United States – a poignant novel of gaining a life and losing a country. As more and more people are forced to leave their homelands, the...
Read MoreThese short stories from the edge reveal the things we learn not to mention. A man I once knew, when attending his grandchildren’s birthdays, liked to tell the...
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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