I love a good limerick. Recently I cooked up a couple for two of my grandsons: There once was a boy named Vin Who suddenly became very thin His mum said, ‘Eat more ‘Or...
Read MoreMusic and popular culture provide the backdrop to this long-awaited new Billy Glasheen novel. It’s no surprise that Peter Doyle, authority on popular culture,...
Read MoreMajor events in US history provide the backdrop to this continuing family saga. I finished Some Luck, the first instalment in Jane Smiley’s trilogy, The Last Hundred...
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Read MoreThis powerful collection dissects love, death, sex and alienation in modern Australia. 2015 Vogel Award winner Murray Middleton has written something close to a great...
Read MoreI wrote in a previous column about my love of historical novels but, while scanning the History channel in search of something to watch, I realised with a new clarity...
Read MoreThis biography is a wonderfully eccentric wander through a rediscovered author’s life. Few writers generate a cult following that spans decades, and those who do...
Read MoreThis draw is now closed. Congratulations to our winner – Chris Maher from Sydney! . Michael Wilding: Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry...
Read MoreWhich is more dangerous? Aliens bearing gifts? Or human nature? Paul McAuley is a multi-award-winning speculative fiction author whose Quiet War series, which spawned...
Read MoreThe Olympic Games were held in Melbourne in November 1956 and I attended one session. I can’t remember how I managed this. I know I went after school because my student...
Read MoreMurder, drugs, sex, politics, history and geography provide the substance of Brian Stoddart’s fast-paced first novel set in India. In 1920 a young woman’s body is found...
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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