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 | 10 Jun 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
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...
by NRB | 27 Aug 2015 | Fiction |
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...
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