Tomorrow, 1 March 2014, is the third anniversary of the death of Hazel Rowley, who died of a cerebral haemorrhage in New York (where she had moved a few years before),...
Read MoreAn intricate and well-plotted narrative, full of incident, ends the Empire of Bones trilogy with a flourish. In this final book, the complex developments of the first...
Read MoreSet in a dystopian future, The Swan Book is completely individual yet universal – polemical, poetic and grimly humorous, with multiverses of meaning. What a ride! The...
Read MoreWhen I was about 35, with three children of my own, I decided to stop calling my mother ‘Mum’. Henceforth I called her Jo, as all her contemporaries did. She was then...
Read MoreWith beautiful symmetry, this novel brings Tales of the City back to where it all began. The Days of Anna Madrigal brings the Tales of the City to a highly satisfactory...
Read MoreThere’s a constant sense of danger as concurrent stories of past and present creep towards each other in this intricate and gritty novel. Hades is not the kind of...
Read MoreI’m growing a beard, again. The first thing I had to do was seek Jean’s agreement. Some women dislike beards. Others prefer them. I’ve known several men who, on...
Read MoreImmersive, layered and compelling: this standout science fiction debut rewards persistence. Ancillary Justice, the debut novel from American author Ann Leckie, has been...
Read MoreThis ‘shatteringly beautiful’ memoir of a mother forcibly separated from her baby son won the Non-Fiction prize at the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards. It...
Read MoreI’ve been reading biographies of two writers I admire in part – Norman Mailer and George Orwell. Literary biography is something I enjoy and the best examples of it,...
Read MorePaul Ham provides a readable and fair-minded corrective to the history wars being waged in the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. If you have ever stood by the...
Read MoreThe award-winning author of Velocity and Dreamtime Alice returns with the searing, soul-baring memoir of her marriage to Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa....
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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