The 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 MoreJean 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 MoreAn agent never puts on his hat and goes home. – Raymond Chandler If you look at a photograph of a street scene in any Australian city taken in, say, the 1940s and...
Read MoreAt one time I had a lot of Hemingway’s books on my shelves – novels, short story collections, journalism, even Death in the Afternoon (1932), although I never...
Read MoreCall me superficial, but several quotes from films stay with me permanently and surface in my consciousness from time to time. One in particular I repeat at what I deem...
Read MoreI’ve done my writing in some pretty unusual places. The early chapters of the first Cliff Hardy book were written in a Melbourne house that was packed up ready for our...
Read MoreI first read Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) at school when it was a set text. I was very impressed by it, answered a question on it in the exams and...
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