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January 10, 2012

What She Wants by Cathy Kelly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: What She Wants Author: Cathy Kelly Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Harper Pages: 732

Four women with four very different lives but all facing huge life changing decisions – how will they cope?

Hope is the working mum, who carries around a continuing burden of guilt that nothing she does is right. Her husband Marc isn’t happy, her two kids are being raised by a close relation of Hitler’s, who runs the local crèche

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Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Tuesdays with Morrie Author: Mitch Albom Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Broadway Release Date: 2002 Pages: 192

I am probably a little behind, as I have only just read Tuesdays with Morrie. This book was apparently responsible for changing people’s lives all around the world and has been published in 19 countries in 16 different languages.

Tuesdays With Morrie is a memoir, written by Mitch Albom, about his professor Morrie Schwarz. Mitch had lost touch

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Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati

Filed under: Book Reviews,Historical Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Into the Wilderness Author: Sara Donati Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Delta Pages: 896

In the late eighteenth century all women did what their fathers bid them, but Elizabeth Middleton decided she was different. Raised by an elderly aunt in England, Elizabeth travels to join her father at a remote American outpost. Her dream is to teach the local children and run her own school, but she soon realises that her father has brought her

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This is the Country by William Wall

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The Writer @ 12:55 pm

Title: This is the Country Author: William Wall Genre: Children of single parents Release Date: Jan 1 2005 Pages: 272

This is the story of a Cork northsider, a Norrie, who spends his teenage years whacked out everything from class A drugs to prescription pain killers. The son of a single, alcoholic mother, he doesn’t know who his father is. His best friend and partner-in-crime Max is dead, but not from the inevitable overdose. Desperate to lose his virginity

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Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K Jerome

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Artist @ 12:55 pm

Title: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog Author: Jerome K Jerome Genre: Fiction

An English comic novel. That sentence, no matter how short, completely sums up this book. The English excel at a certain sort of comedy that is both witty and cutting – poking themselves in the eye while tickling our funny bone. Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat can easily be seen as the precursor of such beloved sit-coms as Faulty

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Time in a Bottle by Denise Deegan

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Time in a Bottle Author: Denise Deegan Genre: Relationships Release Date: 2004-05 Pages: 351

Jennifer is a single mother. Once upon a time she had a high-flying career, monthly highlights and contact lenses. Now her life revolves around her little boy Charlie, all she has in her life is Charlie and that’s all she needs. When he starts school, like any mother, Jennifer is torn – worrying about him while he is gone and at a complete

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Time Tracks by Michael Cronin

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish — The Artist @ 12:55 pm

Title: Time Tracks Author: Michael Cronin Genre: Ireland Publisher: New Island Books Release Date: Jan 1 2003 Pages: 151

Read in the week I left the shores of the Emerald Isle Michael Cronin’s new book, Time Tracks, makes for a poignant and gloriously funny mediation on Irish life.

Cronins world is not the sell it to the tourists and Diaspora world of begora and begosh, thatched cottages and dancing at the crossroads. No it is filled with the wonderful little

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‘Tis Herself: A Memoir’ by Maureen O’Hara

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Biography — The Historian @ 12:55 pm

Title: 'Tis Herself Author: Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti, Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: Mar 1 2005 Pages: 336

The Hollywood star traces her career and personal life, discussing such topics as her relationships with fellow actors, her marriage to plane crash victim Charles F. Blair, and her work on specific causes.

Maureen O’Hara recently received a life time achievement award at the Irish film and television awards. While she will always be remembered

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Trace by Patricia Cornwell

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Trace Author: Patricia Daniels Cornwell Genre: Thriller Publisher: Berkley Release Date: 2012 Pages: 530

Since Postmortem garnered critical acclaim and a record-breaking five awards for a first crime novel, the Kay Scarpetta novels have often been imitated, but never bettered.

Against her own judgement, the advice of Benton Wesley and her niece Lucy, Scarpetta agrees to return to Virginia as a consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a

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Trattoria: Food for Family and Friends by Ursula Ferrigno

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm

Title: Trattoria Food for Family and Friends Author: Ursula Ferrigno Genre: Cookery Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Release Date: 2008-03 Pages: 256

My first introduction to Ursula Ferrigno was through a book called Bread (Dorling Kindersley) that she co-wrote with Eric Treuille, the owner of London shop/haven Books For Cooks. It’s an eminently useful publication with, as is the Dorling Kindersley way, plenty – almost too many – illustrations. This has become a much-used publication

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