If your name were Henry Rider Haggard, what would you select as a professional name if you aspired to be a popular novelist? Not Henry Haggard, obviously; what else but...
Read MoreRobbi Neal has captured a truthful, no-holds-barred and deeply sensitive range of Indigenous Australian experience. For seven years from 2008, Robbi Neal and her family...
Read MoreThe winner of this year’s Stella Prize brings together 12 conversations from The Writer’s Room journal. Ten seconds’ googling will find a plethora of writing...
Read MoreI’ve always disliked meetings. At school I was fidgety and resentful at assemblies and gatherings to commemorate notable events like the death of King George VI and the...
Read MoreThe Drowned Man investigates a murder in the Australian Navy, mixing fact and imagination with varied results. Books are sometimes like buses. You wait 20 years for a...
Read MoreRevelations ebb and flow in Ann Patchett’s new novel. Ideally, a family exists for the common good of its members. In this engrossing novel, the principal two...
Read MoreI went to the RTA Centre in Marrickville to renew the photo ID card issued to non-drivers and accepted by all and sundry. The very pleasant female clerk asked whether I...
Read MoreThis is an outstanding biography of Australian lithium pioneer John Cade, whose life merits major recognition. Let’s start with a statistic. The year 1948 marked a peak...
Read MoreThe Foundation is the first book in a fun and gripping thriller series featuring a tough and resourceful Australian journalist. We first meet Jack Emery in The...
Read MoreI’ve written before about being permitted to become a grumpy old man, and now I claim the right to complain about certain household items that annoy me. In no...
Read MoreThis new biography of Brett Whiteley is completely compelling. Brett and I were close. Geographically. He lived just around the corner in Raper Street, Surry Hills. I...
Read MoreWant to share your passion for books? Are you interested in the craft of reviewing? The Newtown Review of Books is very excited to be partnering with the Stella Prize...
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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