The Godfather: Peter Corris on hair
I am not a particularly hairy man. The hair on my chest is minimal, I have none on my back and my facial hair is not especially abundant. But, at nearly 75, I have a...
Read MoreI am not a particularly hairy man. The hair on my chest is minimal, I have none on my back and my facial hair is not especially abundant. But, at nearly 75, I have a...
Read MoreIn the television program Life on Mars a character from the present has gone back to the past and at a moment of plot crisis shouts in frustration, ‘I need my mobile!’...
Read MoreAt the start of every week I run my eye along the offerings of Foxtel’s History Channel hoping to see a program that will interest me. Mostly, but not always, I find...
Read MoreIn 1986, when Jean was working as a commissioning editor for Transworld Publishing, she recommended a book to me. It was an historical novel by Robert Goddard,...
Read MoreThe Luddites, protesters in 19th-century England who smashed mechanised weaving devices in factories, have been given a bad name. They were, historians have argued,...
Read MoreI’m not ashamed of any of the books I’ve written, although I am more proud of some than others. But there is a book I would have liked to write but won’t. I have in my...
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