by NRB | 21 Dec 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I used to entertain myself and (less so, I suspect) my friends by posing the question, ‘What three events in history would you wish to have been a witness to?’ I had a theory that the answers would provide a clue not only to their real interests but to the kinds of...
by NRB | 4 Dec 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
The NRB editors have invited me to nominate the best books I’ve read in 2012. As I explained in a Godfather column earlier this year (NRB 31 June), I keep a list of books I’ve read, with a brief assessment, and I assign each book a mark out of ten. This makes it...
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