Crime Scene: BELINDA BAUER Rubbernecker. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
The anatomy student, the coma victim – and a satisfying new direction from Belinda Bauer. I have to admit I …
Monthly Archives: January 2013
THE NRB QUIZ Answer ten Australian literature questions for a 2012 prize-winning book
For a copy of Paul D Carter’s 2012 Australian/Vogel’s Award-winning book Eleven Seasons – or just for fun – send us your answers …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on all his houses
Jean Bedford and I have owned ten houses together – one in Melbourne, three in Sydney, several in the Illawarra. …
HUGH HOWEY Wool. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson
Inventive and page-turning, this dystopian tale turns on a society’s clash of values. This is the kind of science fiction …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on the pleasures of biography
When, some years ago, I ruthlessly culled my library down from several thousand books to a few hundred, a surprising …
Crime Scene: JOANNE DRAYTON The Search for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer. Reviewed by Paula Grunseit
Crime novelist Anne Perry began her life as Juliet Hulme, who in 1954 was convicted of murder. Heavenly Creatures, Peter …
MICHELLE DE KRETSER Questions of Travel. Reviewed by James Tierney
From colonialism to the internet, Michelle de Kretser explores big themes in this tale of two travellers. Australian literary fiction is …
The Godfather: Peter Corris remembers friend and co-writer Roger Keesing
I’ve worked as a writer with some justly well-known and extraordinary people, like ophthalmologist Fred Hollows, feisty euthanasia campaigner Philip …
VICTORIA GLENDINNING Raffles and the Golden Opportunity. Reviewed by Peter Corris
This colonialist seized his chance and became known as the man who founded Singapore. Raffles and Singapore go together like …
ALEX MILLER Autumn Laing. A comment by Thea Welsh
Alex Miller makes Sunday Reed a lesser woman for the sake of art. In an enthusiastic review of Alex Miller’s …
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