Posted on 27 May 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Humphrey McQueen once claimed to have been the only person to have read Xavier Herbert’s massive novel Poor Fellow My Country (1975) from start to finish and I’ve never heard him contradicted. Some books are like that. In Woody Allen’s brilliant...
Posted on 26 May 2016 in Non-Fiction |
Better Than Sex is not just a book about the effect of the internet on relationships, but a close look at all the ways of being, meeting, relating and finding love. When I read Samantha Trenoweth’s introduction to her latest anthology Better Than...
Posted on 24 May 2016 in Non-Fiction |
The Helen Garner of Everywhere I Look is as contradictory as she’s ever been in this collection brimming with highlights. At the opening event of the 2014 Melbourne Writers Festival, Helen Garner read from her then newly released book about the...
Posted on 20 May 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Recently I wrote in praise of audiobooks, which I continue to consume at a rate of three or four a week – they are vital to my quality of life. Further familiarity has bred not contempt but a critique. At the risk of appearing sexist, I find...
Posted on 19 May 2016 in Non-Fiction |
At the Existentialist Café takes us into the lives and minds of the famous European philosophers of the 20th century. John-Paul Sartre had bulgy eyes that looked off in different directions. When you sat down with him in a Paris café for a yarn...
Posted on 17 May 2016 in Crime Scene |
Literary icon Tom Keneally has teamed up with daughter Meg to launch a detective series set in Australia’s brutal past. Readers can feel totally confident in the veracity of the convict-era setting of The Soldier’s Curse. Although Booker laureate...