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The Godfather: Peter Corris on (book) life after death

The Godfather: Peter Corris on (book) life after death

by NRB | 6 Jul 2018 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 2 comments

I’ve just finished Sebastian Faulks’s take on PG Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). Taking up this kind of challenge … or perhaps accepting this kind of commission from a dead writer’s estate, more accurately, has become something of an industry among...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on (book) life after death

The Godfather: Peter Corris on his best books of 2017

by NRB | 15 Dec 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

This year I’ve listened to 70 audio books and read two on my Kindle – very slowly, at about 25 words per screen and mostly in doctors’ waiting rooms. Here is a list of the five books I’ve valued most highly, in no order than that in which I came to them. The Romanovs,...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on his best reads of the year

by NRB | 6 Dec 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Again the NRB editors have invited me to nominate the best books I’ve read this year. As I explained in an early column I keep a list of books I’ve read, with a brief assessment, and I assign each book a mark out of ten. Those selected scored either 8.5 or...

WILLIAM BOYD Solo: A James Bond Novel. Reviewed by Peter Corris

by NRB | 31 Oct 2013 | Fiction | 0 comments

Moneypenny, M, danger, sex and cigarettes; the self-indulgent, worldly tone: William Boyd’s James Bond gets it right. I imagine that writing a Sherlock Holmes or James Bond pastiche is something like ghost writing or co-authoring an ‘autobiography’....

The Godfather: Peter Corris on William Boyd

by NRB | 14 Jun 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

A writer and his agent were having lunch in an up-market London restaurant a few years ago. The agent was paying. They started with oyster soup and moved on to Dover sole with a bottle of German Riesling. The writer, 45 or thereabouts, had published  a string of...

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