Like millions of others, I was a great fan of the English television series Inspector Morse, which ran for 13 years. Set in Oxford and based on the novels and stories...
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Read MoreThis draw is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Jenny Snell from Greigs Flat, NSW. Eds Patrick West and Om Prakesh Dwivedi The World to Come This collection of...
Read MoreA bargain for a healer’s life is struck amid simmering anger and revenge in the first instalment of this new epic fantasy. This fine fantasy novel opens with the main...
Read MoreRobin Hood and Little John they both have gone to the fair ’o … When I was a child my mother made a point of visiting Cheshire’s bookshop in Melbourne on her excursions...
Read MoreIs positive thinking bad for you? Essayist Barbara Ehrenreich thinks so. Smile or Die: How positive thinking fooled America & the world might sound positively (or...
Read MoreThis draw is now closed. Congratulations to our winner, Suzie Elovalis from WA! Kirsty Murray The Year it all Ended For 17-year-old Tiney everything is about to change...
Read MoreIn her ninth collection of flash fiction Lydia Davis writes with complex emotional ambiguity about the spaces in between. Lydia Davis began her career as a translator...
Read MoreI’m sometimes asked which of my books has meant the most to me. My glib answer, because it made me the most money, has been The Empty Beach, the fifth Cliff Hardy book,...
Read MoreThis deliberately strange and inventive hommage to Aldous Huxley is a novel of ideas that will draw each reader in differently. Crow Mellow makes no secret of its...
Read MoreThis competition is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Colleen Burke from Newtown! Christos Tsiolkas Merciless Gods The first collection of short stories from...
Read MoreA young woman searches for peace of mind as a past trauma refuses to stay buried in SA Jones’s new novel. Isabelle is a data analyst in the corporate world in Perth....
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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