The Godfather: Peter Corris on readers and non-readers
I’ve been reading for sixty-six years, from about the age of four. I was born in Stawell in Victoria’s Wimmera …
I’ve been reading for sixty-six years, from about the age of four. I was born in Stawell in Victoria’s Wimmera …
Sumner Locke Elliott’s portrait of Kings Cross and Sydney’s class divides is a classic worth revisiting. My mother was a …
Celtic and Japanese cultures give visual and emotional charge to two recent fantasy novels. There is much richness and complexity …
Radio and television interviewers sometimes struggle to ask sensible questions of writers. ‘Where do your ideas come from?’ is an …
Åsa Larsson The Black Path, Kathy Reichs Bones Are Forever, Karin Slaughter Criminal, Camilla Lackberg The Drowning, Tess Gerritson Last To …
The strange case of Roger Casement. The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door. W B Yeats This a …
In the latter part of the 19th century, after mass education greatly expanded the number of readers, the short story …
The search for Newtown’s Miss Havisham. There are several urban myths about Newtown’s famous reclusive spinster, Elizabeth (Eliza) Emily Donnithorne. …
The master of Discworld enters a new dimension. People who buy a new Terry Pratchett usually do so in the …
The first library I remember was the Footscray City Library. I was nine or ten and travelled there from Yarraville …