The Godfather: Peter Corris on brushes with fame Part 1
I’ve written about meeting (and almost meeting) Australian prime ministers, and it occurred to me to make a list of notable people I’ve met in other walks of life. This...
Read MoreI’ve written about meeting (and almost meeting) Australian prime ministers, and it occurred to me to make a list of notable people I’ve met in other walks of life. This...
Read MoreI’ve spent a good part of my life in Sydney, perhaps 20 years or more, and seem always to have returned here after sojourns away. Although I am devoted to Sydney, you...
Read MoreWith notable exceptions – Ian Fleming’s fulsome praise (to his face) of Raymond Chandler in a 1958 BBC broadcast interview, for example – writers are not usually...
Read MoreFor many people a geographical shift from Melbourne to Sydney would be enough to last a lifetime but it wasn’t so for Jean and me. In our time together we have made...
Read MoreThe post-World War II themes of this novel are refracted into contemporary Australia with startling force. Between 1957 and 1966, Elizabeth Harrower published four...
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