Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

It seems Jacki Lyden has been running all her life. After college in Indiana and Cambridge, England she joined the rodeo trail; later, as a broadcaster and journalist, she began to travel all over the world. She even wrote this book on the run – starting it in London, showing it to a friend in Baghdad, continuing it in Canada and finishing

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Fantastical, poetical and a joy to read, Jeanette Winterson melds true historical events with pure imagination in a book that rambles from 1600s to present day London. Sexing the Cherry is a fairytale for adults, complete with characters that verge on the unbelievable and all the magic that fairytales hold.

The loosely held plot is the tale of a young

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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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The press release starts off like this ‘When Salamander Quinn decides to liberate all the lost souls at St. Job’s Infirmary, he embarks on a Kafkaesque journey. Just before Christmas, his plans are further complicated by the arrival of a mystery woman, who sets in motion a chain of startling events. Faced with mounting odds, as his past

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Notes on a Scandal’s rapid pace and fascinating characters is enough to keep a reader’s fingers turning as Zoë Heller tackles the difficult subject of age of consent. She explores the subject through the relationship between two close friends; Sheba, a teacher that gets involved with one of her pupils, and Barbara, Sheba’s colleague

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Paulo Coelho doesn’t just write – he crafts his magnificent tales. One of the most widely read authors in the world, his success is due the fact that he speaks to his readers’ very souls, examining what it is to be human and what it is that makes us human, warts and all.

In ‘The Devil and Miss Prym’ Coelho takes as his

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