by NRB | 7 Feb 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve been reading biographies of two writers I admire in part – Norman Mailer and George Orwell. Literary biography is something I enjoy and the best examples of it, such as Richard Ellmann on Oscar Wilde and Norman Sherry on Graham Greene, have given me enormous...
by NRB | 18 Jan 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
When, some years ago, I ruthlessly culled my library down from several thousand books to a few hundred, a surprising number of biographies made the cut. My principle of selection was, ‘Will I ever need to read or refer to this book again or do I have a particular...
by NRB | 17 Jan 2013 | Crime Scene, Non-fiction |
Crime novelist Anne Perry began her life as Juliet Hulme, who in 1954 was convicted of murder. Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson’s eerie film about the Parker-Hulme murder (starring Kate Winslet) is not easily forgotten. Set in 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand, it...