by NRB | 3 Jul 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
One of our weekly domestic pleasures is doing the quiz in the print edition of the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald. We rope in family members and guests whenever possible and compete with another couple who do the same. Results are variable but my impression is that...
by NRB | 15 Aug 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
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...
by NRB | 13 Dec 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’m not big on painting. I was notably quite without talent at it when at school. We had to submit several watercolours on paper to pass Art at some point. I could manage a wash, so I did three blue sea washes each with a slightly different foreground – a desert...
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