from Queen Victoria to Twin Peaks – November's literary highlights

Mark Colvin is renowned for his current affairs work on ABC Radio, and his influence on the national broadcaster over the past four decades cannot be understated. While he was coming of age as a journalist, however, he learnt that his father was working as a spy for MI6. The secret changed his life. Light and Shadow is both Colvin’s memoir and his own investigation into one of his most personal and yet unknowable influences: his father.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/05/bookmark-this-from-queen-victoria-to-twin-peaks-novembers-literary-highlights