MR CAREY The Girl With All The Gifts. Reviewed by Jacqui Dent
Sentient zombies will give you something to think about in this post-apocalyptic thriller. Since they first entered the popular consciousness, zombies have been...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on unseen places
I’m unlikely to do any major travelling again and, reflecting on this, I fell to thinking about sights and places I’d like to have seen and never will. Oddly, this...
Read MoreROBERT DESSAIX What Days Are For. Reviewed by Stephen Sargent.
Complex layers of discussion inform this memoir on the fragility of life. In 2011, the actions of two strangers saved Robert Dessaix from ‘being deported from the...
Read MoreMIRANDA JULY The First Bad Man. Reviewed by Donna Lu
Beneath the quirkiness Miranda July’s debut novel is a tale of connection and longing. Critics of writer, filmmaker and artist Miranda July’s work might swiftly dismiss...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on working in shops
The discount chemist in Newtown employs a security guard on some days through the week and without fail at the weekend. The man, in a crisp white shirt and dark...
Read MoreKAZUO ISHIGURO The Buried Giant. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
The Booker-winning author of Remains of the Day has created a moving and thought-provoking excursion into post-Arthurian Britain. This mysterious and beautiful story is...
Read MoreJOHN LAHR Tennessee Williams: Mad pilgrimage of the flesh. Reviewed by Walter Mason
This biography treats the life of a wounded genius with immense sensitivity. John Lahr’s edition of Joe Orton’s homoerotic diaries was the go-to book for Queer literary...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on digging up Newtown
The advantages to living in Newtown are many and varied. Transport? Trains and buses in all directions. Shopping? Two kilometres’ worth on both sides of King Street –...
Read MoreCrime Scene: KATHERINE HOWELL Tell the Truth: An Ella Marconi novel. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm
This is the end – for now – of the Ella Marconi series by Australian thriller writer Katherine Howell. In 2007 paramedic Katherine Howell caused quite a stir in...
Read MoreCrime Scene: NIGEL BARTLETT King of the Road. Reviewed by Lou Murphy
A missing child, a man framed – this debut thriller has a searing ferocity. It’s everybody’s worst nightmare – the mysterious disappearance of a child. David...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Byron Bay
In 1999 Jean and I found ourselves living in Byron Bay. It hadn’t been planned. We’d made our sea change from Sydney to the south coast some years before, but we’d...
Read MoreELLEN VAN NEERVEN Heat and Light. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
This award-winning young writer delivers a debut collection of stories that ranges widely across themes of longing, identity, destiny and desire. Heat and Light 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
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