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The Godfather: Peter Corris on being reviewed

The Godfather: Peter Corris on being reviewed

by NRB | 18 Nov 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 3 comments

The worst review I ever got was back in my academic days. My MA thesis, Aborigines and Europeans in Western Victoria from First Contact to 1860, a typically cumbersome title, was published in 1967 by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra as an occasional...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on The Gulliver Fortune

The Godfather: Peter Corris on The Gulliver Fortune

by NRB | 16 Jan 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

I’m sometimes asked which of my books has meant the most to me. My glib answer, because it made me the most money, has been The Empty Beach, the fifth Cliff Hardy book, which went through three or four printings before it was filmed. Although the film was a failure,...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on chance encounters

The Godfather: Peter Corris on chance encounters

by NRB | 17 Jan 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

It’s a cliché that lives can be changed by chance encounters. Many people meet their life partners through chance encounters it is said. I didn’t; apparently we were set up. But I’ve never ceased to be thankful. I owe my survival beyond, say, the age of 50, to a...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on gongs and milestones

by NRB | 8 Mar 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I’ve been lucky with reviewers, lucky even in their mistakes. A recent positive review of my current Cliff Hardy novel The Dunbar Case credited me with four Ned Kelly awards for crime writing but I only have two. Another, equally pleasing review, declared it to be the...
             

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