Readers will to have to forgive me for returning to the subject of blindness. Understandably, given that I’m legally though not functionally blind, it’s one of my...
Read MoreThe limits of loyalty and discretion are tested in Christine Piper’s Vogel Award-winning novel about a Japanese doctor interned in South Australia during World War II....
Read MoreAbsurdity and anger reside in this anthology of personal responses to ASIO’s clumsy and calumnious file-keeping. Meredith Burgmann’s Introduction to this fascinating...
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Read MoreTelling stories he shouldn’t: the gossipy, titillating and always fascinating world of Edmund White’s Paris. There is something deliciously circular about Edmund...
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Read MoreThe saga of Queensland’s notorious decades of police corruption continues with Matthew Condon following the lives of key players as they seize control. The searing and...
Read MoreGalgut’s fictional tribute to EM Forster is a triumph – an elegant, original novel of love and loneliness. In a 1953 interview with the Paris Review, novelist EM...
Read MoreMost days I watch a film on television, occasionally two. They don’t have any marked effect on me as far as I can tell. The poor or indifferent ones I forget about...
Read MoreMorrissey presents his case with palpable bitterness in a book that offers validation in the end. Bitterness and revenge inform this eponymous autobiography, or at...
Read MoreThrough cruelty to transcendence: the third book of this powerful series delivers both. This final instalment of the Children of the Black Sun trilogy opens with three...
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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