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The Godfather: Peter Corris on Anna Karenina

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Anna Karenina

by NRB | 4 May 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 5 comments

I first read Anna Karenina in 1960. It was a set text in English I at the University of Melbourne. Like the swot I was, I read as many of the set texts as I could before embarking on the course, so I must have been a few months short of 18 at the time. I found the...
Crime Scene: LUCY SUSSEX Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

Crime Scene: LUCY SUSSEX Blockbuster!: Fergus Hume and The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm

by NRB | 28 Apr 2016 | Crime Scene | 1 comment

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, written in the mid 1880s, was a world-wide publishing phenomenon. The story of its publication deserves a book like Blockbuster!. Lucy Sussex is a renowned crime fiction expert, researcher and editor, originally from New Zealand, now from...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on The Woman in White – book and film

The Godfather: Peter Corris on The Woman in White – book and film

by NRB | 11 Mar 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

As I wrote in an earlier column, I read Wilkie Collins’s ‘sensational novels’ in my younger days and admired them as good yarns. More recently I read (when I could still read) Peter Ackroyd’s excellent 2012 biography of Collins. As I’ve also written about...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on The Moonstone

The Godfather: Peter Corris on The Moonstone

by NRB | 12 Feb 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 2 comments

I can’t remember when I first read Wilkie Collins’s ‘sensational’ (to use the contemporary term) novel The Moonstone (1868). It would have been at some time in that ten-year-long period of intensive work as an undergraduate and postgraduate student, when I turned to...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on talking books

by NRB | 7 Dec 2012 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 4 comments

I wonder if there are any authors who listen to their own work when it appears in the form of a talking book? Possibly the real egoists do. About twenty of my books have had the treatment, mostly Cliff Hardys, but at least one each in the Crawley and the Browning...
             

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