by NRB | 1 Mar 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Television came to Australia in 1956, in time for the Melbourne Olympics. The big consoles were expensive and my parents had to save for the deposit and buy one on hire-purchase. We didn’t get a set until 1960, which meant that, for the whole of my youth, home...
by NRB | 20 Jul 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I have published 66 books of fiction and half a dozen non-fiction titles and am called prolific, but I am a minnow compared to the whales of big literary producers. Belgian Georges Simenon published over 200 novels and almost as many novellas. Best known for his books...
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