Despite a New Year’s Resolution to ration my junk television hours, I managed to begin 2006 with a barely curbed addiction to Celebrity Big Brother. Now that it has come to its inevitable conclusion, I’ve finally had time to sit down and consider a book
Symbologist Robert Langdon is in Paris to attend a conference. Woken late one night, he is taken to a murder scene. The victim is Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere, who Langdon was supposed to meet earlier in the evening. Intriguingly, Sauniere has left a clue as
This is Lee Dunne’s twenty first work of fiction and once again Dunne has struck just the right note. Based in Dublin in 1902, Sam Sweet dives into the Liffey after a street urchin who has stolen his wallet. Beautiful, rich Victoria Brewer witnesses the
In his book The Short Story, Sean O’Faolain reminisces about the time he taught creative writing in London. One young man submitted a story about an aristocratic man
Christopher Boone is the unlikeliest of storytellers. He is a teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of autism) but neither term is ever mentioned in this excellent book. That said, this is very much his book and it is
Lily Prior’s debut novel plunges headfirst into the heady world of Sicilian life with its accompanying passions for life, love, family and cooking. After the tragic death of her first love, Bartolomeo, Rosa Fiore buried herself in her family kitchen and cooked unendingly
The eighth outing for Tempe Brennan begins with a seemingly routine examination of a gunshot victim, which leads Tempe to a case that will take her from Canada to Israel in search of the bones the victim may have been killed for. Soon, the ancient and mysterious bones take
The introduction to this creative writing guide is sprinkled with minor typos, from the very first sentence. It’s not a good start, and neither is the fact that the most interesting part of Boran’s foreword comes in the form of quotes
One of two books written on this subject last year, David Cavanagh’s version of the madness and mayhem that was Creation Records is an utterly fascinating read. Although denounced by Creation lynchpin Alan McGee as “the accountants tale”
In a world saturated with cookbooks, ‘How to Cook Better’ from British chef Shaun Hill makes a refreshing change. Moving away from the usual recipe-on-one-page, picture-on-facing-page approach, this is a manual, focusing more on techniques than
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