Posted on 19 Aug 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Our third daughter was born early in 1977. I had a vasectomy to forestall any more children but our Wigram Road house seemed cramped with five people, a dog, the magnificent kelpie/border collie cross, Jim, that I’ve written about before, and the...
Posted on 18 Aug 2016 in Crime Scene |
There is a very good reason for all the buzz around about The Dry, another great debut thriller from an Australian writer. In a country with a lot of mythology built around rural connections, it has always come as a surprise how much of Australia’s...
Posted on 16 Aug 2016 in SFF |
This third instalment of the Trangressions Cycle is Australian Gothic horror at its gruesome best. Welcome to the church of St Agnes, where truths are whispered and the voices of the dead struggle to be heard. Spanning the years 1946 to 1952, The...
Posted on 12 Aug 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Our decision to move from Melbourne to Sydney early in 1976 seemed impulsive to some but it was not ill-considered. While Melbourne might have been the Mecca for theatre and music, Sydney seemed to be the place for fiction writing and journalism....
Posted on 11 Aug 2016 in Non-Fiction |
East West Street fuses biography, family memoir and journalism, culminating in an account of the Nuremberg trials told with the pace of a legal thriller. The idea that a government shouldn’t have impunity to murder its own citizens because it finds...
Posted on 9 Aug 2016 in Crime Scene |
Zane Lovitt, winner of the 2013 Ned Kelly Award, has produced an original Melbourne take on the noir crime novel. Black Teeth is peopled by loners. A protagonist who suffers breathless anxiety in public, his neighbour who cloisters herself away in...