Continuing my interest in themed popular songs, I lighted on the idea of songs celebrating the physical and social attributes of cities. There are a number of songs...
Read MoreOne Life provides a loving appreciation of a woman of her time who paved the way for the women of now. A few years after her mother died, Kate Grenville got out the...
Read MoreJune Wright is one of the early writers who forged a way for the current vibrant Australian crime fiction scene. Unfortunately the crime novels of June Wright have...
Read More‘Write what you know’ is often good advice for would-be scribblers. Not much help if you don’t know anything, of course, but it certainly fitted the bill for...
Read MoreAn unusual and imaginative novel, The Bird’s Child traverses surreal territory in a historical setting. The unlikely bringing together of the stories of a pogrom...
Read MoreThis original and exciting police-procedural trilogy poses ethical and moral dilemmas as the end of the world draws near. The Edgar-Award-winning first novel in this...
Read MoreIn Anglo-Saxon times, surnames did not exist and nicknames were used to help identify a person. Originally, these were called ekenames, as eke meant ‘also or added’....
Read MoreThis charming volume gives us a combination of food, occasions, glamorous name-dropping and glorious places, all mixed up with the closeness and fun of family. Film...
Read MoreThe second book in the Pierre Jnr trilogy is a compelling read, full of ideas and fast-flowing events. David Henley’s Pierre Jnr trilogy explores the world of the...
Read More‘It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.’ Lyndon B Johnson on J Edgar Hoover Most authorities agree that the...
Read MoreFrom its medieval cell this debut novel soars into the light. In 1255 a young Englishwoman, Sarah, chooses to become an anchoress – that is, to be walled up in a cell...
Read MoreImprisonment, the Resistance, intrigue – Nicholas Shakespeare peels away the layers of his aunt’s unlikely story. In a nice Euro joke, German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
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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