• Home
  • About NRB
    • Who we are
    • What we do
    • Get the books
    • Quoting from NRB
    • Contribute
    • Get reviewed
    • Support the NRB
  • Fiction
  • Non-fiction
  • Crime Scene
  • SFF
  • Giveaways
  • Extracts
  • Flashback Friday
  • The Godfather
  • Contact
The Godfather: Peter Corris on being doubly bookish

The Godfather: Peter Corris on being doubly bookish

by NRB | 10 Aug 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

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...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on Sir Walter Scott

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Sir Walter Scott

by NRB | 10 Jun 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

When I was doing English II at Melbourne University in 1960 we had to sit one exam for the poetry component and another on the prose works. Swot that I was, I memorised reams of poetry (we had to identify excerpts), tackled all the novels before the year even started...
JAVIER MARIAS The Infatuations. Reviewed by Adrian Phoon

JAVIER MARIAS The Infatuations. Reviewed by Adrian Phoon

by NRB | 27 Aug 2015 | Fiction | 0 comments

Subtle psychological insights tumble out from Marías’s prose, taking centre stage even though they seem peripheral to the story. Maria Dolz is an editor who works for a Madrid publisher. She is also a keen, if passive, observer of others. Every day before work she...
             

Subscribe

Add your email address and we'll be in touch when new reviews are published.


Support NRB

Help us keep the Newtown Review of Books a free and independent site for book reviews.
Click to Donate

Abbey's Bookstore

Sister Kate by Jean Bedford.

Recent Posts

  • Image of cover of book A Catalogue of Love by Erin Hortle, reviewed by Annette Hughes in the Newtown Review of Books.2026 Summer Surprise Giveaway
    12 February 2026
    Surprise! Here’s a very special giveaway of four recent novels. Take your [ … ]
  • Image of cover of book The Barn: The Murder of Emmett Till and the cradle of American racism by Wright Thompson, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.WRIGHT THOMPSON The Barn: The murder of Emmett Till and the cradle of American racism. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck
    10 February 2026
    Wright Thompson’s account of the 1950s murder of a Black teenager in [ … ]
  • Image of cover of book The Language-Lover’s Lexipedia by Joshua Blackburn, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.JOSHUA BLACKBURN The Language-Lover’s Lexipedia. Reviewed by Ann Skea
    5 February 2026
    Joshua Blackburn has compiled a treasure-trove of the humorous, the obscure, [ … ]
  • Image of cover of book Woodside vs The Planet: How a company captured a country by Marian Wilkinson, reviewed by Braham Dabscheck in the Newtown Review of Books.MARIAN WILKINSON Woodside vs The Planet: How a company captured a country. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck
    3 February 2026
    Australian governments are addicted to fossil-fuel exports that harm the [ … ]

  • NRB Home
  • About the NRB
  • Support the NRB
  • Contribute
  • Get Reviewed
  • A-Z
  • Contact
© 2012 - 2024 Newtown Review of Books / ABN 99 488 002 007 / Manage / Site by Leumesin Design
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}