The Godfather: Peter Corris on discovering Maugham (and others)
In an idle moment, of which I have many these days, I found myself trying to remember who had introduced …
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Crime Scene: TANA FRENCH Broken Harbour
Tana French’s Irish Gothic noir delivers more than the average crime novel. This is the fourth in Tana French’s Dublin Murder …
ROSE TREMAIN Merivel: A Man of His Time. Reviewed by Peter Corris
This sequel to Restoration is a hectic, witty adventure set in seventeenth-century England and Europe. When, in my constant search for a …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on pseudonyms
Back when my series characters Ray Crawley, Luke Dunlop and Richard Browning were losing favour with readers and publishers, a …
NEAL STEPHENSON Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing. Reviewed by Matthias Schreck
This book of essays and stories adds new perspective to Stephenson’s interests and plot devices. Reviewing a collection of essays …
CHINA MIÉVILLE Railsea. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
China Miéville continues to give a poetic and intelligent edge to the fantasy genre. This new book is an absolute …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on books in translation
I’ve been translated into six languages, seven if you count American* – French, German, Swedish, Japanese, Russian and Serbian. This …
Crime Scene: IAN RANKIN Standing in Another Man’s Grave
Rebus is back, as individual and interesting as ever. After five years out in the cold of retirement (literally: he’s …
RICHARD GILL Give Me Excess of It. Reviewed by Tony Bremner
This memoir is a passionate account of a conductor’s lifetime enthusiasm for music. Give Me Excess of It is an …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on sticking up for the Stones
Memory is a fragile thing. If anyone had asked, ‘Did you and Jean Bedford ever write to Al Grassby, Minister …
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