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The Godfather: Peter Corris on reviewing

The Godfather: Peter Corris on reviewing

by NRB | 11 Nov 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

I must have written hundreds of book reviews. I cut my teeth at the business when I was an academic, reviewing books in the fields of my own research – race relations in Australia and the Pacific. I was lucky; these were popular areas of research and published writing...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on reviewing

The Godfather: Peter Corris on glorious Glebe

by NRB | 19 Aug 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Our third daughter was born early in 1977. I had a vasectomy to forestall any more children but our Wigram Road house seemed cramped with five people, a dog, the magnificent kelpie/border collie cross, Jim, that I’ve written about before, and the cats. Jean noticed a...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on quizzes

The Godfather: Peter Corris on quizzes

by NRB | 3 Jul 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

One of our weekly domestic pleasures is doing the quiz in the print edition of the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald. We rope in family members and guests whenever possible and compete with another couple who do the same. Results are variable but my impression is that...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on running

The Godfather: Peter Corris on running

by NRB | 31 Oct 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Fred Hollows started me running. At a party he poked my soft belly and told me I’d be dead before my time unless I lost weight and got fit. I felt mortified and challenged. I’d never been much of a runner – not particularly quick over the sprints and with no endurance...

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