‘Where do your ideas come from?’ is a question often put to authors, especially crime writers. When I was busy at the trade I tended to fob it off with...
Read MoreWomen’s difficult lives are laid bare with a surgeon’s precision in this collection. This is a collection of 21 short stories about women in relation to the...
Read MoreViolence, and fear, fester beneath the surface when a middle-class family is stalked by a creepy downstairs neighbour. The Tiefenthalers are your typical bourgeois...
Read MoreHave you ever lost something you valued? Just found it gone, vanished like that single sock lost in the wash? In a longish life I can think of a few instances, some of...
Read MoreStead’s short stories contest truth and identity – and feature a winged man, scary women, and a hint of Edna Everidge. One of the most important elements of a...
Read MoreThe Possessions is an unsettling debut conjuring a world where the dead may speak through the living. What makes you you? Is it the lipstick you wear? The way you talk?...
Read MoreI am not a particularly hairy man. The hair on my chest is minimal, I have none on my back and my facial hair is not especially abundant. But, at nearly 75, I have a...
Read MoreBaum’s memoir is replete with examples of emotional deftness of the highest order. I have very much enjoyed Caroline Baum’s published essays, and it is a delight...
Read MoreMothering Sunday gives us a moving exploration of a particular day, and opens up a rich look at the nature of writing. Graham Swift’s wonderful novella concerns one...
Read MoreIn the television program Life on Mars a character from the present has gone back to the past and at a moment of plot crisis shouts in frustration, ‘I need my mobile!’...
Read MoreThese short stories from Sue Woolfe offer alienation, yearning and brilliance. The final story in this collection of eight pieces is an extract from the personal papers...
Read MoreWe have one copy of Scoundrel Days to give away. To go in the draw, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with SCOUNDREL in the subject line and your...
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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