by NRB | 22 Jan 2018 | Giveaways |
More great reads for these long summer days … To win this bundle of four titles, simply email us at editors@newtownreviewofbooks.com.au by 6pm Tuesday 23 January 2018 with Summer #3 in the subject line and your name and address in the...
by NRB | 6 Oct 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Do popular writers in particular, but other writers in general, compete with each other? This thought was prompted by a quote from historical novelist Bernard Cornwell, which I’ll return to. Did Georgette Heyer compete with Baroness Orczy for top spot in the Regency...
by NRB | 7 Jul 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
This will be the last of my prison despatches – that is, columns to do with my two-months-plus time in hospital. Unlike some patients who are able to sit in their beds or on their chairs and stare at the walls or occupy themselves with television, I’d be crawling...
by NRB | 11 Apr 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In 1981 with only two crime novels published (The Dying Trade and White Meat), I was invited to attend a crime-writing conference in Sweden. The organisers wanted the event to be international and, casting about for an Australian, they would have found that I was...
by NRB | 1 Jun 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Why am I wandering round my workroom putting books back on shelves and filing documents? Why I am rearranging books for God’s sake, and putting pens back in jars and screwing up scrap paper? Why am I drifting away to consult the Foxtel mag to see if there are movies I...
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 [ … ]