WENDY JAMES The Mistake. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
There’s more than one side to this story of a mother accused of murdering her child. It’s impossible to read …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the old days of journalism
I was the literary editor of the National Times for almost three years, from 1979 to 1981. I was given …
Crime Scene: CAROL O’CONNELL The Chalk Girl
‘Before Lisbeth Salander, there was Kathy Mallory.’ So it says on the front cover of The Chalk Girl, and so …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on authors, publicity and festivals
Popular Australian writers of the 30s, 40s and 50s rarely appeared in public, were heard on radio or seen in …
CHARLOTTE WOOD Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the gift of food. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
From how to make pastry to the ethics of eating, Charlotte Wood inspires with her passion for food. The best …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the bookshops of Newtown
I doubt there is any precinct in Sydney better supplied with new and second-hand bookshops than Newtown. There are hundreds …
LINDY CAMERON Redback
A girls’-own-adventure with the lot. A beautiful-yet-deadly commander of a crack retrieval team; terrorists of US, European, Arabic and Asian …
The Newtown Review of Books 