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January 10, 2012

Said and Done by Annie Sparrow

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Said and Done Author: Annie Sparrow Genre: Chick-Lit Publisher: Orbit Books Release Date: 2001 Pages: 358

Emma is a 35-year-old legal secretary. Working in a small office of a large solicitors firm in London hasn’t exactly prepared her for the high life, neither has marriage to Tony, her husband of seven years.

Tony left the army six years ago and has been working as a bouncer on the door of the local pub. Emma, has put on weight and hides behind

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Other People’s Rules by Julia Hamilton

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Other People's Rules Author: Julia Hamilton Genre: Thriller Release Date: Apr 5 2001 Pages: 487

The beautiful Kate Gresham went missing on the night of her sixteenth birthday party on her family’s Scottish estate in 1978. Despite offers of rewards from her father, multi-millionaire and pop icon, Michael Gresham, neither she nor her body is found. But other girls have also gone missing that summer and when their murderer is caught he confesses

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At Ruby’s by Frank Delaney

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: At Ruby's Author: Frank Delaney Genre: General Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: 2002

Wealthy architect Nicholas Newman is an ordinary man, although perhaps more self-aware than most, who gets caught up in extraordinary events beyond his control. He’s also the hero of At Ruby’s, the third book in Frank Delaney’s Gemstone Trilogy.

As in the first two books, The Amethysts and Pearl, Newman struggles with the evil that

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JK Rowling by Marc Shapiro

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: JK Rowling Author: Marc Shapiro Genre: Biography Release Date: 2003 Pages: 144

Marc Shapiro is an entertainment journalist based in California who also writes well-timed unauthorised celebrity biographies: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gillian Anderson, Mariah Carey, Sarah Jessica Parker and Carlos Santana can be counted among his victims. His most recent is a biography of the late George Harrison (published February 2002) &#8211

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A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones

Filed under: Book Reviews,Music,Biography — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: S.T.P. Author: Robert Greenfield Genre: Biography, Music Publisher: Da Capo Press Release Date: 2002 Pages: 337

These days the Rolling Stones are an anachronism. The aged and raddled face of Mick Jagger no longer inspires hysteria and his dalliances with young ones less than half his age are nothing more than the desperate attempts of an aging Lothario to reclaim his lost youth. Despite their antiquated façade, the Stones refuse to lay down and die &#8211

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Author: Agatha Christie Genre: Thriller Publisher: Harper Collins publishers Release Date: Jan 1 2002 Pages: 368

Agatha Christie devotees will without doubt have already read the book that catapulted her from leading mystery novelist to the undisputed Queen of Crime. First published by Collins in 1926, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ was Christie’s sixth full-length novel. Its controversial finale caused a rift amongst crime fiction fans with

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Robbers by Christopher Cook

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Robbers Author: Christopher Cook Genre: Thriller Publisher: No Exit Press Release Date: 2001 Pages: 372

Two drifters pull into a gas station; one of them tries to buy a packet of cigarettes but he’s a penny short so he shoots the clerk. Thus begins a trail of destruction.

Ray Bob and Eddie have recently been released from prison, they hook up in a bar and are best friends within five minutes – a lethal combination is born as they begin their

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Roast Figs, Sugar Snow by Diana Henry

Filed under: Book Reviews — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Roast Figs, Sugar Snow Author: Diana Henry Genre: Cookery Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Release Date: Sep 1 2014 Pages: 191

Derry woman and food writer Diana Henry has again come up trumps with her latest book, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow. Her first cookbook, Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons, focused on the tastes and enchantments of the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. With praise from Claudia Roden and its appearance twice on the Glenfiddich award shortlist, it became

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Remember Me by Lesley Pearse

Filed under: Book Reviews,Historical Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Remember Me Author: Lesley Pearse Genre: Australia Publisher: Michael Joseph Release Date: 2010 Pages: 560

In 1798 a young woman from Cornwall, Mary Broad, is caught stealing a bonnet in a market; as the market is on a main street this is deemed as Highway Robbery and the sentence at the time is hanging. The sentence is commuted however and reduced to 7 years transportation.

Though at the time this sentence seems preferable to death, Mary spends many moments

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The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Red Pony Author: John Steinbeck Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Penguin UK Release Date: Mar 3 2011 Pages: 128

Short novels are something of a rarity these days. The modern paperback usually weighs in with a respectable minimum of 200 pages. Dipping into Steinbeck’s back catalogue, you’d be hard pushed to find such an average size book from the tome-like East of Eden to the brilliant short novels that made his name. The Red Pony is one such and

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