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January 10, 2012

Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Filed under: Book Reviews,Classics — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
menwithoutwomen
Title: Men Without Women Author: Ernest Hemingway Genre: Classics Publisher: Arrow Books Release Date: 1927 Pages: 130

A second collection of short stories that once again establish Hemingway as a novelist of exceptional power. Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness, unsoftened by woman's hand. Incisive, hard edged, pared down to the bare minimum, they

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Mediterranean Cook by Paul Gayler

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Mediterranean Cook Author: Paul Gayler Genre: Cookery Publisher: Jacqui Small Release Date: 2004 Pages: 144

British chef Paul Gayler’s latest book is like a wonderful taster menu of Mediterranean cookery. Dividing the countries around the Mediterranean Sea into four different sections – Central Mediterranean, Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean, Mahgreb and Egypt – Gayler gives a brief overview of cooking in countries ranging from France to

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Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Mary Anne Author: Daphne Du Maurier Genre: Fiction Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. Release Date: Oct 1 2009 Pages: 455

Better known for her fiction – of which I am a fan – Du Maurier’s Mary Anne is a biography of her great-great-grandmother. Mary Anne was a courtesan, the mistress of Frederick Duke of York, second son of King George III. Du Maurier effortlessly mingles fact and fiction to build a vivid portrait of a woman who would stop at nothing

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My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: My Week with Marilyn Author: Colin Clark Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Weinstein Books Release Date: 2011 Pages: 320

Back in the summer of 1956, Colin Clark’s first job was as third assistant director (as he puts it, “the lowest of the low”) on a film called ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. Starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, the film was one of Monroe’s attempts to escape being typecast as a dumb blond, but her acting

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After Many a Summer by Aldous Huxley

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Artist @ 12:55 pm
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Title: After Many a Summer Author: Aldous Huxley Genre: Fiction Publisher: Ivan R Dee Release Date: 1976 Pages: 355

The bones of this story concern an English academic’s trip to America to stay with a rich tycoon.

Jeremy Pordage has been employed by Mr Stoyte to go through a wealth of historical documents he has purchased from two down-on-their-luck spinsters of the English aristocracy. Such is Stoyte’s style of personal aggrandisement, he has built

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Loving Che by Ana Menendez

Filed under: Book Reviews,Literature — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Loving Che Author: Ana Menéndez Genre: Fiction Publisher: Grove Press Release Date: 2004-11 Pages: 229 “Farewell, but you will be with me, you will go within a drop of blood circulating in my veins”

These lines from a Pablo Neruda poem are the only link to the past that a young Cuban woman has to her mother. The words, scrawled on a piece of paper, are pinned to her clothes as she is abandoned to the care of her grandfather. The time is Cuba, at the height of the revolution, when the city’s inhabitants are fleeing the terror of Batista

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Lovely Bones Author: Alice Sebold Genre: Thriller Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: 2003 Pages: 328

In addition to having all the trappings of a page-turner, Alice Sebold’s morbid Lovely Bones explores two levels of death – both those that are left behind and the departed. The narrator is a young girl who is brutally murdered at the age of fourteen. The reader is taken through her struggles and attachments to the life she was tragically

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How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Author: Toby Young Genre: Biography Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers Release Date: 2008 Pages: 349

At some point in their career, most journalists dream of conquering the land of Manhattan’s glossy mags. Undeterred by a world where infamous ball-breaker Tina Brown is Queen, Toby Young went Stateside for five years in search of success, supermodels and better cocaine. Thus begins a voyage of self-discovery bristling with a naivety that rarely

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Living the Dream by Kate Thompson

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Living the Dream Author: Kate Thompson Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Release Date: Jun 1 2005 Pages: 619

Living the Dream is Kate Thompson’s seventh novel and sees the return of some of her favourite characters.

Cleo Dowling’s dream has just come true, she’s won the lotto. Even though she is determined not to change, everyone’s attitude towards her does change, so Cleo takes off to a small village in the west of Ireland

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The Lives of the Muses, Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Lives of the Muses, Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired Author: Francine Prose Genre: Biography Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 432

Starting with writer Samuel Johnson’s muse Hester Thrale and moving on to Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll’s inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), Pre-Raphaelite beauty Elizabeth Siddal and Salvador Dali’s wife Gala, this is a multi-biography with an art slant and a theme as fascinating as the lives of the women who inspired it.

What

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