See you at the Toxteth: The best of Cliff Hardy and Corris on crime, published this week, brings together in one volume some of Peter Corris’s best short stories,...
Read MorePeter Corris, the ‘Godfather of Australian crime fiction’, died in his sleep on 30 August 2018. His Godfather columns have been part of the Newtown Review of Books from...
Read MoreWhen you say ‘I read it a hundred years ago’ about a book you’re about to re-read, what you really mean is that you can’t remember whether you read it ten, 20 or more...
Read MoreVery kindly, a neighbour recently gave Jean a jar of home-made marmalade. I was reminded that my mother used to make jam and what a hive of DIY activity the dreary...
Read MoreI’ve written before about having two books on the go to read – one on my Kindle and one as an audio. Colour me bookish, but it doesn’t always work out well. Recently I...
Read MoreI remember a conversation on ABC radio between Philip Adams and Gore Vidal, both avowed atheists, in which Adams said that whereas America had initially been settled by...
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