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January 10, 2012

Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Lipstick Jungle Author: Candace Bushnell Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Abacus Pages: 448

For her fourth book, Candace Bushnell tries to recreate a world as compelling and fascinating as Sex and The City. Unfortunately she has not succeeded.

In Lipstick Jungle, high fashion meets the powerful women who actually wear it. Single, beautiful, creative and unconventional, Victory Ford has worked for years to create her own independent fashion

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How the Light Gets In by MJ Hyland

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cult,General Fiction — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: How the Light Gets in Author: M. J. Hyland Genre: Australians Publisher: Walker Release Date: Jun 1 2011 Pages: 329

In many of the best books with a precocious teen protagonist, the hero/ine tries to figure out who they are and get away from where they come from. Lou Connors doesn’t have to do either – she knows very well who she is and has already succeeded in making it to the USA, at least for a summer as an exchange student. Leaving behind her sedentary

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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Jeremy Pordage has been employed by Mr Stoyte to go through a wealth of historical documents he has purchased from two down-on-their-luck spinsters of the English aristocracy.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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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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La Cucina by Lily Prior

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: La Cucina Author: Lily Prior Genre: Cookery, Fiction Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2001 Pages: 266

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, making so much pasta, bread, tomato sauce and preserves that the produce

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May 17, 2007

Running for the Hills: A Family Story by Horatio Clare

Filed under: Bookclub Books,General Fiction — Femmes @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Running for the Hills: A Family Story Author: Horatio Clare Genre: General Fiction Publisher: John Murray; New Ed edition Meeting: 17th May 2007

Ok, ok. So I gave this book 5 out of 5, and was greeted with gasps of open-mouthed horror and amazement… Judging by the praise Horatio Clare’s childhood memoir has garnered in reviews since its publication, there are lots of people out there who agree with me – unfortunately, none of them are in this bookclub!

In my defence

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