WILLIAM BOYD Solo: A James Bond Novel. Reviewed by Peter Corris
Moneypenny, M, danger, sex and cigarettes; the self-indulgent, worldly tone: William Boyd’s James Bond gets it right. I imagine that writing a Sherlock Holmes or...
Read MoreCHRISTOS TSIOLKAS Barracuda. Reviewed by Annette Hughes
Glittering prizes, a fall from grace and the path to redemption – Barracuda is a complex novel of class, ethnicity and rage. Summer. Up before the sun, slip on speedos...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on a day in the life …
We set off at midday to catch a 1.15 train north after lunch at Central Station. We’d arranged for a daughter to feed the cat. The destination was Maitland in the...
Read MoreALI ALIZADEH Transactions. Reviewed by Walter Mason
A puzzling and unsettling book of short stories that plays games with popular tropes surrounding Islam, the Middle East and the Western subject. Many of the stories in...
Read MoreASHLEY HAY The Railwayman’s Wife. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren
This novel of the aftermath of war, grief and library books is written with elegance and feeling. It’s 1948, and although the war has been over for years, its...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on guns
I suppose I’ve had a bit more experience of firearms than the average urbanite. When young I was an enthusiastic sharer of a friend’s Diana air rifle. This was a...
Read MoreROBYN OYENIYI Love versus Goliath: Two People Against the Weight of Bureaucracy. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
This true story outlines one woman’s battle against Australian bureaucracy to be reunited with her husband. In this book Robyn Oyeniyi details the relentless struggle...
Read MoreBILL GARNER Born in a Tent: How Camping Makes Us Australian. Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen
History seen through a tent flap: this view of post-settlement Australia is ‘alive and itchy’. The act of camping strips us bare – quite literally,...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on writing columns
This is my 80th column for the NRB and time to reflect on the experience of column writing. I’ve had a somewhat similar gig once before – as a TV columnist for the...
Read MoreCHRIS WOMERSLEY Cairo. Reviewed by Robyne Young
Award-winning novelist Chris Womersley delivers a provocative portrait of the artist as a young art thief. There is a sense of anticipation and foreboding present...
Read MoreROBERT HARRIS An Officer and a Spy. Reviewed by Peter Corris
The Dreyfus Case, notorious for its betrayals and anti-Semitism, inspires this new thriller from the author of Fatherland. In the Acknowledgments to his new novel...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on going to the dentist, then and now
In one of my novels I have Cliff Hardy remark that painless dentistry and being able to pause live television are the two crowning technological improvements of 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
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