Summer Giveaway 2015 #1
Summertime … Just the time for some great reading with this fabulous bundle of books. Simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Wednesday 2...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on execution songs
Earlier this year my column dealt with what I called ‘unspoken backstory’ songs. I was prompted to think of other styles of songs, those with a distinctive mode or...
Read MoreDEBRA ADELAIDE The Women’s Pages. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren
The Women’s Pages is as captivating as it is irresistibly clever. In the closing moments of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Lockwood, the novel’s...
Read MoreCRAIG MUNRO Under Cover: Adventures in the art of editing. Reviewed by Bruce Sims
This memoir provides insights into the editor’s world, and winning and losing in the publishing game. Craig Munro poses the central dilemma of this book on the opening...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on an island #2
The name Coochiemudlo refers to the red rock that outcrops on the island and provided ochre for the mainland Indigenous people who visited for fishing and ceremonies....
Read MoreIAIN PEARS Arcadia. Reviewed by Chris Maher
The author of An Instance of the Fingerpost explores what happens when words create worlds. What if Alice’s Wonderland was a science fiction creation rather than a...
Read MoreSTEPHEN KNIGHT The Politics of Myth. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
Here is a richly informative, scholarly and entertaining discussion of culture and myth. Our media-doused world is constantly fed stories concerning celebrities and...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on an island #1
I don’t know when I first developed my yen to live on an island. It may have related back to Robert Louis Stevenson, but more likely to a book that was a set text in my...
Read MoreTEGAN BENNETT DAYLIGHT Six Bedrooms. Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen
These short stories of the messiness of life unfold like a concept album. The world of Six Bedrooms will be familiar to Gen X Sydneysiders who lived in share houses in...
Read MoreNEAL STEPHENSON Seveneves. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson
This science fiction epic combines cutting-edge science and technology with strong characters and high stakes. Neal Stephenson came to the fore with his third book Snow...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Scotland
Jean and I both have Scots ancestry. Jean’s paternal grandmother was a Fraser. The Frasers were a clan notorious for changing sides in the conflicts that raged in the...
Read MoreADAM JOHNSON Fortune Smiles. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
This is a collection to return to, to fully explore the ideas and themes and revel in the boldness of the writing. When I read The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson...
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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
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