by NRB | 24 Feb 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In 1986, when Jean was working as a commissioning editor for Transworld Publishing, she recommended a book to me. It was an historical novel by Robert Goddard, published that year. The title was Past Caring and the publishers, who had some of their bigwigs in...
by NRB | 28 Mar 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Jean introduced me to the work of Robert Goddard when she was working as fiction editor for Transworld and Goddard’s first novel Past Caring (1986) was being heavily promoted by the company. I was mightily impressed by it. Set in the Edwardian era with the Boer War...
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