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KATE KEMP The Grapevine. Reviewed by Sally Nimon

KATE KEMP The Grapevine. Reviewed by Sally Nimon

by NRB | 13 Mar 2025 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Psychologist Kate Kemp’s debut novel opens with blood spatters and goes on to unravel the secrets of a suburban street in 1970s Australia. The time is 1979. The place (namely Warrah Place) is suburban Canberra. It’s summer and the heat is oppressive, disrupting the...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on Canberra 50 years ago

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Canberra 50 years ago

by NRB | 1 Jun 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 2 comments

I’ve been listening to memoirs by people who attended what Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister referred to as ‘both universities’ – that is, Oxford and Cambridge. Geoffrey Robertson, Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens have all made their marks and, in different degrees,...

Crime Scene: ANGELA SAVAGE The Dying Beach: Jayne Keeney PI in Krabi; PETER COTTON Dead Cat Bounce. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 8 Aug 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction | 0 comments

Two recent Australian crime novels – a PI mystery set in Thailand and a police procedural in Canberra – give a strong sense of place. The Dying Beach is the third Jayne Keeney book from Angela Savage, following on closely from Behind the Night Bazaar and The...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on winter

by NRB | 19 Jul 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York. Shakespeare, Richard III Winter always discontents me. As a kid I disliked the cold and Melbourne was colder back then, 60-plus years ago, than it is now. I shared a bedroom with my brother...

STEVE LEWIS and CHRIS UHLMANN The Marmalade Files. Reviewed by Linda Funnell

by NRB | 1 Aug 2012 | Fiction | 0 comments

This slickly sliced satire offers an insider’s view of federal politics. In a political world that contains all the strange twists of, say, the James Ashby/Peter Slipper case, or the Malcolm Turnbull/Godwin Grech imbroglio, how could fiction possibly top reality?...
             

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