JANE RAWSON From the Wreck. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey
Jane Rawson’s new novel has its feet planted in the earth as well as in the ocean and the stars. Rawson says that she began this book as an attempt to record and...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Robert Goddard
In 1986, when Jean was working as a commissioning editor for Transworld Publishing, she recommended a book to me. It was an historical novel by Robert Goddard,...
Read MoreALAIN DE BOTTON The Course of Love. Reviewed by Robin Elizabeth
De Botton’s novel about relationships and keeping love alive comes with an inbuilt commentary from the author. The Course of Love has been touted as the...
Read MoreSTELLA GIBBONS Cold Comfort Farm. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
Gibbons’s parody is a masterpiece of comedy in its own right. Cold Comfort Farm was first published in 1932. Gibbons says at the beginning of the novel that it is...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris: I, Luddite
The Luddites, protesters in 19th-century England who smashed mechanised weaving devices in factories, have been given a bad name. They were, historians have argued,...
Read MoreBOB ELLIS In His Own Words (compiled by Anne Brooksbank). Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress
This anthology of Ellis’s writing reflects his wide range of interests and concerns. Scene 1: A man came up to me in a pub. I was reading Goodbye Jerusalem or Goodbye...
Read MoreKENT HARUF Our Souls at Night. Reviewed by Robin Elizabeth
Haruf writes about companionship, love, and the damage small minds can do to gentle hearts. Our Souls at Night is Kent Haruf’s seventh and final book. It was published...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on The Runner
I’m not ashamed of any of the books I’ve written, although I am more proud of some than others. But there is a book I would have liked to write but won’t. I have in my...
Read MoreCrime Scene: GARRY DISHER Signal Loss. Review and series overview by Karen Chisholm
Garry Disher has two successful major crime series out – very different from each other, both of the highest possible standard. In 1991 the first of the Wyatt series,...
Read MoreThe Great Summer Giveaway 2017 #5
Only a few weeks of summer left, but plenty of time to read these four great books … To enter the draw, simply email editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with...
Read MoreLUCY DURNEEN Wild Gestures. Reviewed by Carmel Bird
Durneen has a sharp eye for the meanings woven into the stories of past, present and future. Lucy Durneen teaches writing in Plymouth, England. In 2014 she went to the...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris: old school
Recently I happened to listen to our washing machine going through its paces and my mind went back to clothes washing when I was a kid. Our house in Yarraville had a...
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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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