by NRB | 5 Sep 2023 | Non-fiction |
Anna Funder reveals the significant and unacknowledged contribution of Mrs Orwell to the famous writer’s career. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them … The process has to be...
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 | 26 Aug 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
We lay under cover by the side of the road for the ambush and Paco passed me the wineskin which was heavy with the resin-tasting wine of that part of the country which feels good when it hits the back of your throat in a spurt but you must be careful to cut the spurt...
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...