by NRB | 17 Feb 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
The Luddites, protesters in 19th-century England who smashed mechanised weaving devices in factories, have been given a bad name. They were, historians have argued, proto-unionists whose complaint was more against factory owners’ attempts to drive down workers’ wages,...
by NRB | 4 Mar 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Recently I was anxious to hear a reading of Morris West’s 1965 novel The Ambassador. I’d been told it was better than Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1956), which I’d read many years ago and recently heard as an audiobook. I inquired at the Newtown Library and was...
by NRB | 27 Jun 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Readers will to have to forgive me for returning to the subject of blindness. Understandably, given that I’m legally though not functionally blind, it’s one of my preoccupations. My ophthalmologist has assured me I will not go completely blind, but he hasn’t told me...