Birds of America is a collection of twelve short stories by Lorrie Moore. It is essentially a series of portraits of the disaffected, aimless and the emotionally insecure. The tragedies of Moores characters are that of the everyday the loss
Australian cook Bill Granger is the darling of the Sydney restaurant scene. He open his first café, Bill’s, twelve years ago and hasn’t looked back since. Earlier this month he opened his third Sydney restaurant and he is just about
Nick Weston seems to have an enviable life. He runs his own advertising company, owns a fabulous house in an upmarket area of San Francisco and has a gorgeous wife whom he loves more than anything. There’s just one small problem: his company will fold
The poet Sylvia Plath wrote only one novel – The Bell Jar. Its protagonist, Ester Greenwood, is a young woman who is an ambitious and promising writer. Set in the 1950s, the first half of the book covers a month that Ester spends in New York as an
Myla Goldberg’s ‘Bee Season’ is a US bestseller; it won rave reviews across the states from Time Magazine to the New York Times. What starts out as a story about a girl who discovers a talent for spelling grows into a sweeping tale of family breakdown
Ciara Lunny is perfectly happy. Married to airline pilot Jake for nearly twenty years she has never wanted for anything. With her hobbies including shopping and keeping herself beautiful, Ciara has never needed to use her brain, letting Jake take
When Eithne was just 13 years old, her beautiful older sister, Beatrice, disappeared. She was never found again, alive or dead, and all that her family were left with was a beret, a pearl compact, a sketchbook and a blue scarf. Eithne’s mother Sarah
Kathy Reichs’ Dr. Tempe Brennan is, in Bare Bones, once again buried up to her neck in dead bodies and intriguing cases. The book begins with Brennan back home in Charlotte, North Carolina, investigating the charred remains of a newborn. Brennan’s nemesis
Dependable Jon has never been a hit with the ladies. Deciding it’s time for some drastic action he persuades his best friend Tracie to convert him into a bad boy. Tracie has plenty of first hand experience, as she always seems to fall for the “treat
Harley Altmyer is 18. Once upon a time, he was thinking of getting a job, living at home for a couple more years with the family he loved. Then, hopefully, he’d buy a house, get married and maybe even have a few kids himself but that was before his life turned
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