by NRB | 11 Mar 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
As I wrote in an earlier column, I read Wilkie Collins’s ‘sensational novels’ in my younger days and admired them as good yarns. More recently I read (when I could still read) Peter Ackroyd’s excellent 2012 biography of Collins. As I’ve also written about...
by NRB | 23 Jan 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Robin Hood and Little John they both have gone to the fair ’o … When I was a child my mother made a point of visiting Cheshire’s bookshop in Melbourne on her excursions to the city and buying one of the Cheshire’s Children’s Classics. These were cheap, stapled,...
by NRB | 19 Dec 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I’ve read 44 books so far this year. Not a lot, but not too bad given my eyesight. I make a brief note of each book read and give it a mark out of ten so that I can single out the books I’ve most valued. This year, in no particular order, they are: Peter Ackroyd Civil...
JUNE WRIGHT Mother Paul series. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm6 December 2024June Wright has faded from view, but in 1948 her novel Murder in the Telephone [ … ]
ANDREW O’HAGAN Caledonian Road. Reviewed by Catherine Pardey5 December 2024This new novel from the author of Mayflies is set in London, but Glasgow is [ … ]
IAIN RYAN The Dream. Reviewed by Ben Ford Smith3 December 2024Iain Ryan’s latest novel continues his fascination with 1980s Queensland and [ … ]
MARINA YUSZCZUK Thirst. Reviewed by Ann Skea28 November 2024Argentinian writer Marina Yuszczuk puts her twist on the vampire novel in [ … ]