BROOKE DAVIS Lost & Found. Reviewed by Virat Nehru
Three characters set out to find what they have lost in this novel about the rituals of grieving. Striking an uncanny balance between probing and restraint, Australian...
Read MoreCHRISTOPHER PRIEST The Adjacent. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson
This unsettling new work incorporates echoes from previous books and forces readers to ask what they want from a novel. I’ve read a few books by Christopher Priest now,...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Sherlock Holmes
Recently, one of my daughters, knowing of my enjoyment of the Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, gave me a DVD of episodes in the first of the 2010 BBC TV series...
Read MoreMEG WOLITZER The Interestings. Reviewed by Sonia Nair
American novelist Meg Wolitzer holds a mirror to the caprices of desire, friendship and envy in 20th century New York, a time of resurgent feminism, the AIDS outbreak,...
Read MoreMAXINE BENEBA CLARKE Foreign Soil. Reviewed by Lou Heinrich
These stories add complexity to racial and cultural stereotypes and explore a wide range of human experiences. Foreign Soil won last year’s Victorian...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on going to the gym
I go to the gym three mornings a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. When I arrive, the guy at the desk usually remarks to his offsider, ‘Oh, here’s Pete. Must be...
Read MoreCLAIRE NORTH The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Reviewed by Lou Murphy
The pseudonymous Claire North poses an esoteric and intellectual challenge in this historically based and convoluted time-travel story. Born as a kalachakra, or...
Read MoreCrime Scene: DANIEL WOODRELL Winter’s Bone. Reviewed by Peter Corris
A novel of abandonment, crank and the Ozarks, written with flinty integrity. Daniel Woodrell has written several novels set in the Ozark region of the central United...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on beggars and buskers
Walking on either side of King Street, Newtown, say from Missenden Road to the railway station, it’s a rare day that you don’t encounter a beggar or a busker or both....
Read MoreTARA MOSS The Fictional Woman. Reviewed by Robyne Young
Bestselling crime novelist Tara Moss examines the fictions society weaves about women’s roles, and how they have played out in her own life. I haven’t read Tara Moss’s...
Read MoreRJURIK DAVIDSON Unwrapped Sky. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson
This debut weaves a prodigious tapestry around its drowned world; the result is an example of the best of contemporary Australian fantasy writing. The city of...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Buddy Holly
For no particular reason I can think of I recently experienced a wish to listen to Buddy Holly. I’d had some singles and a vinyl ‘best of’, but that was a long time...
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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
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