The Godfather: Peter Corris on preserving the papers
Malcolm Bradbury was offered a lot of money by an American university for the manuscript of The History Man. He’d …
Monthly Archives: July 2012
FRANCESCA RENDLE-SHORT Bite Your Tongue. Reviewed by Annette Hughes
This fictonalised memoir is a book of revelations. Two little girls, sisters, dare each other to touch tongues. I’ve done …
RACHEL WILLIAMS and PETER WARRINGTON The Stripey Street Cat
Cats, Newtown, street art … this charming book has everything. It was my seven-year-old grandson who first spied The Stripey Street …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the big word-producers
I have published 66 books of fiction and half a dozen non-fiction titles and am called prolific, but I am …
Crime Scene: ARNALDUR INDRIDASON Black Skies; QUENTIN BATES Cold Comfort
Iceland’s economic crash gives texture to two crime novels. Arnaldur Indridason is a well-known and best-selling Icelandic author, many of …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the books he re-reads
Like most readers, I have favourite books; by that I mean ones I re-read or at least dip into frequently. …
JANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL Forecast: Turbulence
These stories of family trauma find their echoes in the elements. In ‘Moon River’, the chapter of memoir that comes …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the decline of the Western
We know that video killed the radio star, but what killed the Western genre? Up until the 1960s the Western, …
ABIGAIL SOLOMON-GODEAU Rosemary Laing. Reviewed by Annette Hughes
The art and times of Rosemary Laing. I’m looking at a 100-year-old black and white photograph of a man riding …
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