All four of my grandparents spoke with regional British accents – Manx, north-country English and Scots. My parents spoke with mid-range Australian accents, neither –...
Read MoreBurke writes about Louisiana, McKinty about Belfast, but these two crime writers have more in common than you might think. Over the last weeks, I’ve been reading...
Read MoreA Week in the Life of Cassandra Aberline exists on the plane of memories, where grief can enlarge small events and erase larger ones. Glenda Guest’s follow-up to her...
Read MoreNovelist, essayist, aspiring politician and wit Gore Vidal once proposed that no one who believed in an afterlife should be eligible for political office. Impractical,...
Read MoreIn Understory Inga Simpson invites us to be more truly here than we were before. This memoir of a life among trees – and all their attendant and nearby species, from...
Read MoreThe Feed poses important questions about our addiction to and reliance on technology. The Feed is a post-apocalyptic tale with what can only be called a Black Mirror...
Read MoreA good number of authors who’ve employed series characters have written what are called in the business retrospectives – that is, stories that hark back to earlier...
Read MoreEva Hornung shows us that the story of the Garden of Eden can have a different ending. The Last Garden is set in an unnamed New World, most likely South Australia,...
Read MoreMachado’s stories twist and turn and startle and shock. The first piece in this exhilarating collection of eight unconnected short stories begins with a beguiling...
Read MoreHere is a further list of YouTube selections I play fairly often, sometimes when I hear of the deaths of the artists or I am reminded of them for one reason or another:...
Read MoreAda Langton’s The Art of Preserving Love is a carefully controlled, rambling rose bush of a tale. From the opening chapter title of this delightful debut, it’s...
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{ 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 
{ Although I'm no seasoned author - it's a new adventure in my life - I've read a lot of popular fiction in the last thirty... } – The Godfather: Peter Corris on revisiting books, again, 09 Feb 18, 6:41 pm