The Godfather: Peter Corris on history
I wrote in a previous column about my love of historical novels but, while scanning the History channel in search of something to watch, I realised with a new clarity...
Read MoreI wrote in a previous column about my love of historical novels but, while scanning the History channel in search of something to watch, I realised with a new clarity...
Read MoreI’m sometimes asked which of my books has meant the most to me. My glib answer, because it made me the most money, has been The Empty Beach, the fifth Cliff Hardy book,...
Read MoreA year or more ago, in an idle hour, I came up with the idea of writing an ABC of crime fiction. It wasn’t intended as a ‘how to’ exercise, there are enough of those...
Read MoreJean introduced me to the work of Robert Goddard when she was working as fiction editor for Transworld and Goddard’s first novel Past Caring (1986) was being heavily...
Read MoreI never liked teaching and unlike the people mentioned in a previous column I was no good at it. As a young man I was shy and self-conscious. These are not good...
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