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The Godfather: Peter Corris on glorious Glebe

The Godfather: Peter Corris on glorious Glebe

by NRB | 19 Aug 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Our third daughter was born early in 1977. I had a vasectomy to forestall any more children but our Wigram Road house seemed cramped with five people, a dog, the magnificent kelpie/border collie cross, Jim, that I’ve written about before, and the cats. Jean noticed a...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on an ABC of crime writing

The Godfather: Peter Corris on an ABC of crime writing

by NRB | 15 Aug 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

A year or more ago, in an idle hour, I came up with the idea of writing an ABC of crime fiction. It wasn’t intended as a ‘how to’ exercise, there are enough of those around, but as a survey of the elements, themes and ideas central to crime fiction. I wrote a...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on book launches

by NRB | 22 Nov 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

An unusual book launch was held recently at Gleebooks, unusual in that three books were celebrated – novels by Michael Wilding and James Murray and a book of mine comprising three novellas. It was also unusual in that we had no launcher as a result of organisational...
             

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