by NRB | 28 Sep 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Peter Corris, the ‘Godfather of Australian crime fiction’, died in his sleep on 30 August 2018. His Godfather columns have been part of the Newtown Review of Books from the beginning, and we feel his loss keenly. Following are some tributes that were given at his...
by NRB | 31 Mar 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
‘Where do your ideas come from?’ is a question often put to authors, especially crime writers. When I was busy at the trade I tended to fob it off with answers about my imagination and picking up on things I’d overheard when I was a journalist or listened...
by NRB | 9 Oct 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve done my writing in some pretty unusual places. The early chapters of the first Cliff Hardy book were written in a Melbourne house that was packed up ready for our move to Sydney. I had a borrowed electric typewriter moored on some boards stretched across a number...
by NRB | 20 Feb 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Reading Bill Garner’s excellent history of camping in Australia, Born in a Tent (positively reviewed in the NRB), prompted me to think about his theory that camping has shaped the Australian consciousness, and my own scanty experience of the activity. My parents were...
by NRB | 15 Oct 2013 | Non-fiction |
History seen through a tent flap: this view of post-settlement Australia is ‘alive and itchy’. The act of camping strips us bare – quite literally, sometimes, when every piece of clothing is wet through and it is easier to simply offer unadorned skin to...
ANNA DOWNES Red River Road and LISA KENWAY All You Took From Me. Reviewed by Justine Ettler3 October 2024These two new crime thrillers from Australian writers Anna Downes and Lisa [ … ]
KATHERINE WILES No Autographs Please. Reviewed by Sally Nimon2 October 2024Katherine Wiles’ life as a professional opera singer seems glossed with [ … ]
ANTONIA PONT The Memory Library. Reviewed by Ann Skea1 October 2024Memories are not merely recounted in Antonia Pont’s novella. How would you like [ … ]
ALINA BELLCHAMBERS The Order of Masks. Reviewed by Amelia Dudley26 September 2024Spies, magic, intrigue, and the human cost of an expanding empire all feature [ … ]
