Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

A Life of Her Own by Dee Cunningham   
(Published by Marino)

This is the girl who has it all; great friends, a successful career and a happy life, but underneath the smiling exterior she is hiding a dark and painful past. Cathy Carmody is young and successful but a series of events suddenly bring back memories of a

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Life Mask by Emma Donoghue 
(Published by Virago Press)

Set in London during the late eighteenth century and with the French Revolution as its bloody and passionate backdrop, Life Mask tells the tale of three women caught in a kind of love triangle. Donoghue’s fourth novel is formed around a fictional recreation

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Les Liaisons Culinaires by Andreas Staïkos  
(Published by The Harville Press)

A flirtatious fable of fabulous food, Les Liaisons Culinaires is every foodie’s dream. The slight tale is little more than a framework on which Greek author Andreas Staïkos hangs evocative and sensuous descriptions of food, the recipes

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Les Halles Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain  
(Published by Bloomsbury)

Although already the author of two well-received memoirs – Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour – as well as a couple of not so popular detective novels, it’s only now that American chef Anthony Bourdain has got around to writing

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Learning to Fly by Mary Hosty   
(Published by Poolbeg)

Sophie Flanagan is on a plane home to Ireland, leaving behind her perfect New England lifestyle, her high-powered job and the man who broke her heart. Although life is pretty bleak, Sophie is glad to be returning home to a life of stability Isobel Kearney is

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The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve  
(Published by Little Brown)

When Anita Shreve’s ‘The Pilot’s Wife’ was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s book club in 1999, it propelled her onto numerous literary top ten lists. This gargantuan publicity injection made the publishers happy but such high-profile

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The Last Juror by John Grisham  
(Published by Arrow)

In The Last Juror, Grisham returns to Ford County for the first time since A Time to Kill. The beauty of A Time to Kill and A Painted House – his best book by far – was that Grisham took the time to develop characters living in the richly evoked and described

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The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick  
(Published by Times Warner)

Eduard Schwermann is an old man seeking sanctuary at Larkwood Priory in Suffolk. Agnes Aubret is a woman whose life is running out; she has just been diagnosed with terminal motor neuron disease. It’s time, Agnes feels, to tell her granddaughter

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