Brian Kiernan, who died on March 1, was a major […]

Plague Searchers is a two-volume novel set in the London […]

Nicholas Hasluck's memoir 'Bench and Book' is anything but a sensational diary of scabrous anecdote and scandalous gossip. Rather, amid its many gems, there is the persistent lament that 'people seem so unaccustomed to hearing a view contrary to their own'. This was especially so during his time as the chair of the Australia Council's literature board

As Henry Kendall put it, he 'sang the first great songs these lands can claim / To be their own', yet his reputation has withered with the years, so much so that he is regularly omitted from modern anthologies. A pity in the estimation of Robert Gray and Geoffrey Lehmann, who view the lyrical horseman as 'seriously underrated'

To read Peter Corris's stories is to enter a world as past as those of Maigret or Sherlock Holmes. The Sydney he captured, the physical settings, are gone or vanishing. The Toxteth Hotel still stands, but the nearby Harold Park racetrack of his 1985 story The Arms of the Law exists no longer, paved over with apartment blocks

Crime fiction is a label that covers a huge variety […]

When the thirty-four-year-old Henry Kendall arrived in Gosford in late […]

Win, Lose or Draw by Peter Corris Allen & Unwin, […]

Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure by Ross Fitzgerald […]