The Godfather: Peter Corris on lost expressions
A Sunday birthday lunch, old and young gathered around the table. A child asks an adult what she’s doing when …
Monthly Archives: June 2013
ANNIE COSSINS The Baby Farmers. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
Sydney in the 1890s: shame, syphilis and infanticide. If you were unmarried and pregnant, or married and unable to afford …
M JOHN HARRISON Light: Book One of the Kefahuchi Tract. Reviewed by Keith Stevenson
Hallucinatory, worldly and entertaining science fiction with a lot to say about the human condition. Michael Kearny is a particle …
The Godfather: Peter Corris re cycling
When I was very young, say seven or eight, my father worked in Bruce Small’s bike shop in Moonee Ponds, …
HANNAH RICHELL The Shadow Year. Reviewed by Jody Lee
The second novel from the author of Secrets of the Tides explores the sinister legacy of an idealistic experiment. It …
JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ The Sound of Things Falling. Reviewed by Rosana Bouzas
This mystery is set in a Columbia emerging from the drug wars and haunted by memory and loss. The Sound …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on William Boyd
A writer and his agent were having lunch in an up-market London restaurant a few years ago. The agent was …
Crime Scene: REBECCA JAMES Sweet Damage. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm
Things that go bump in the night add to the suspense in this cautionary tale of young adult friendships. Marketed …
NIGEL FEATHERSTONE I’m Ready Now. Reviewed by Walter Mason
A nuanced and thoroughly original novella about the special link between mother and son. A newly widowed Tasmanian woman travels …
The Godfather: Peter Corris on being an unhandy man
A section of the wooden front gate has fallen off and now lies on the ground inside the fence. I’ve …
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