by NRB | 10 Aug 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve written before about having two books on the go to read – one on my Kindle and one as an audio. Colour me bookish, but it doesn’t always work out well. Recently I abandoned one of each, a rare thing for me to do, having paid for them. One was a crime story and...
by NRB | 19 Jan 2016 | Non-fiction |
This dignified and lyrical memoir depicts the struggle for a convention-free spinster’s lifestyle. The anomalous spinster adorning the cover of this memoir shows Kate Bolick, looking gorgeous enough to be cast in Sex and the City, sitting alone on a lush settee,...
by NRB | 24 Aug 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Radio and television interviewers sometimes struggle to ask sensible questions of writers. ‘Where do your ideas come from?’ is an old stand-by to which most writers patiently reply with a formula answer like, ‘A combination of imagination and experience’. Crime...
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