Posted on 5 Aug 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Weather was the determinant of life in Gippsland. It was autumn when we arrived, with pleasant, mild sunny days in which you could do anything out of doors. In the early weeks we had fairly frequent visitors from Melbourne and other parts. We...
Posted on 4 Aug 2016 in Non-Fiction |
With beautiful design and sparkling text, this book is an ideal example of a club history. When I first heard of the Kapunda Football Club celebrating 150 years of its history my private response was, ‘Oh, no.’ For two reasons. First, sporting...
Posted on 2 Aug 2016 in Non-Fiction |
Leah Kaminsky invites us to ask questions about our own attitudes and behaviours in the face of death, with the promise of a more fully lived life. To be a doctor terrified of death, writes Kaminsky, is like being a pizza chef terrified of dough....
Posted on 29 Jul 2016 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In 1974 I held a one-year lectureship in History at the University of Melbourne. I hated it, from the physical setting to the teaching itself. When I was an undergraduate ten or so years before, the History Department had been housed in the...
Posted on 28 Jul 2016 in Fiction |
You don’t need to have read Jane Eyre to love Wide Sargasso Sea, but if you have, you will never think of it in the same way again. Wide Sargasso Sea writes back to Jane Eyre as a prequel. It traces the life of Rochester’s wife, Antoinette,...
Posted on 27 Jul 2016 in Giveaways & Quizzes |
We are giving away a copy of Ann Turner’s Antarctic thriller Out of the Ice. To go in the draw, just email your name and address to editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au with ‘Ann Turner’ in the subject line by 6pm today, 27 July...