Robert G Barrett: a personal farewell

The creator of the immensely popular Les Norton died on Thursday 20 September 2012.  He was a more complex figure than his public image suggested. Bob Barrett loved to stir. The first time I saw him was in a newspaper photograph of the opening...

PAT BARKER Toby’s Room. Reviewed by Peter Corris

Pat Barker returns to the haunting fictional territory of World War One. There have been many fine novels with World War One settings, such as A Farewell to Arms, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Very Long Engagement and Birdsong. While this book isn’t in that class...

BELINDA CASTLES Hannah and Emil

This third novel from Belinda Castles is a love story, a family saga, and a slice of twentieth-century European and Australian history. Hannah and Emil first see one another across a crowded room in 1933.  The venue is a trade union conference in Brussels, where...