Posted on 21 Feb 2017 in Fiction |
Gibbons’s parody is a masterpiece of comedy in its own right. Cold Comfort Farm was first published in 1932. Gibbons says at the beginning of the novel that it is set in the ‘near future’ though this only seems to manifest itself in...
Posted on 17 Feb 2017 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
The Luddites, protesters in 19th-century England who smashed mechanised weaving devices in factories, have been given a bad name. They were, historians have argued, proto-unionists whose complaint was more against factory owners’ attempts to drive...
Posted on 16 Feb 2017 in Non-Fiction |
This anthology of Ellis’s writing reflects his wide range of interests and concerns. Scene 1: A man came up to me in a pub. I was reading Goodbye Jerusalem or Goodbye Babylon – one of the big books. ‘He’s an angry man, Ellis,’ he said. ‘He’s much...
Posted on 14 Feb 2017 in Fiction |
Haruf writes about companionship, love, and the damage small minds can do to gentle hearts. Our Souls at Night is Kent Haruf’s seventh and final book. It was published after his death from interstitial lung disease in 2014. It was perhaps Haruf’s...
Posted on 10 Feb 2017 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’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 head a story about a professional foot-runner in late 19th-century Australia:...
Posted on 9 Feb 2017 in Crime Scene |
Garry Disher has two successful major crime series out – very different from each other, both of the highest possible standard. In 1991 the first of the Wyatt series, Kickback, was released. In an unusual twist for local crime fiction at the time,...