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 …
Monthly Archives: August 2012
SUMNER LOCKE ELLIOTT Water Under the Bridge. Reviewed by Tony Bremner
Sumner Locke Elliott’s portrait of Kings Cross and Sydney’s class divides is a classic worth revisiting. My mother was a …
DUNCAN LAY The Bridge of Swords; JENNIFER FALLON The Dark Divide. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
Celtic and Japanese cultures give visual and emotional charge to two recent fantasy novels. There is much richness and complexity …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the mechanics of writing
Radio and television interviewers sometimes struggle to ask sensible questions of writers. ‘Where do your ideas come from?’ is an …
Crime Scene Shorts: Jean Bedford reviews six recent women’s crime novels
Åsa Larsson The Black Path, Kathy Reichs Bones Are Forever, Karin Slaughter Criminal, Camilla Lackberg The Drowning, Tess Gerritson Last To …
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA The Dream of the Celt. Reviewed by Peter Corris
The strange case of Roger Casement. The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door. W B Yeats This a …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the decline of the short-story market
In the latter part of the 19th century, after mass education greatly expanded the number of readers, the short story …
EVELYN JUERS The Recluse
The search for Newtown’s Miss Havisham. There are several urban myths about Newtown’s famous reclusive spinster, Elizabeth (Eliza) Emily Donnithorne. …
TERRY PRATCHETT and STEPHEN BAXTER The Long Earth. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
The master of Discworld enters a new dimension. People who buy a new Terry Pratchett usually do so in the …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on a lifetime in libraries
The first library I remember was the Footscray City Library. I was nine or ten and travelled there from Yarraville …
The Newtown Review of Books 