by NRB | 1 Jun 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
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,...
by NRB | 8 Aug 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction |
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...
by NRB | 19 Jul 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
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...
by NRB | 1 Aug 2012 | Fiction |
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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