The Godfather: Peter Corris on camping
Reading Bill Garner’s excellent history of camping in Australia, Born in a Tent (positively reviewed in the NRB), prompted me to think about his theory that camping...
Read MoreReading Bill Garner’s excellent history of camping in Australia, Born in a Tent (positively reviewed in the NRB), prompted me to think about his theory that camping...
Read MoreIn 1981 with only two crime novels published (The Dying Trade and White Meat), I was invited to attend a crime-writing conference in Sweden. The organisers wanted the...
Read MoreHistory seen through a tent flap: this view of post-settlement Australia is ‘alive and itchy’. The act of camping strips us bare – quite literally,...
Read MoreTwo recent books focus on Arthur Upfield’s half-Indigenous detective Napoleon Bonaparte. Arthur William Upfield (1 September 1890 – 13 February 1964) was an Australian...
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