Holidays away from home were not a feature of my childhood. My father worked 50 weeks a year and there was never any spare money. We had no family car until I was into...
Read MoreA grimoire, ancient magic – and cage fighting. This novel romps through it all. Warning! Wizards are no longer weedy, spectacle-wearing dorks with wimpy scars on their...
Read MoreThis book commemorates the 100th anniversary of Thomas’s birth and offers new insights into his life. We ‘did’ Dylan Thomas in the fourth year of the Honours...
Read MoreI’m not what you’d call a gambling man. My betting amounts to participation in an AFL tipping competition – $30 per season – an occasional $2.20 lottery ticket and a...
Read MoreQuestions of masculinity and notions of guilt and innocence are probed in Helen Garner’s disquieting examination of the tragic death of three young boys and the...
Read MoreThis novel traverses the brutality of war and displacement to offer hope and compassion. Even as his eighty-first birthday drew near, Luigi Ferraro was a handsome and...
Read MoreA year or more ago, in an idle hour, I came up with the idea of writing an ABC of crime fiction. It wasn’t intended as a ‘how to’ exercise, there are enough of those...
Read MoreThis police-procedural urban fantasy is a celebration of contemporary and mythological London. Broken Homes is the fourth in the wonderful Rivers of London series....
Read MoreGhosts, poets and a passionate artist complicate 15-year-old Rebecca’s life in a quiet English village. Rebecca Abraham Budde loves Jane Eyre, her family and Dave – not...
Read MoreThe wittiest piece of innuendo I know from a sports commentator belongs to the legendary English cricket pundit John Arlott. When summarising the action in a county...
Read MoreThis cautionary tale takes aim at the literary life. ‘I am not a normal person. I am a writer,’ declares Michael Ardenne, the antihero of Ian Shadwell’s takedown of...
Read MoreWarning: reading this book can get you down if you are a creative in Australia trying to establish or maintain a career. Justin Heazlewood’s brilliant Funemployed is...
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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