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January 10, 2012

The Affair by Anna Dillon

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Affair Author: Anna Dillon Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Release Date: 2005 Pages: 419

The saying goes that there are two sides to every story, but in The Affair there are three: those of the wife, the husband and the mistress.

Kathy and Robert have been married for eighteen years and have three children. Robert is spending more and more time at the office, working in his production company building the business – or so Kathy

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Filed under: Book Reviews,Classics — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Awakening Author: Kate Chopin Genre: Classics Publisher: Courier Corporation Release Date: 1993 Pages: 116

When first published in 1899, "The Awakening" shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines

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The Diviners by Rick Moody

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Diviners Author: Rick Moody Genre: General Fiction Release Date: Jan 18 2007 Pages: 567

Set mostly in New York City in the days after the disputed 2000 US presidential election, The Diviners is ostensibly the story of an independent production company’s attempts to get a TV mini-series about man’s lifelong search for water off the ground; in reality, Rick Moody’s latest is a sweeping commentary on contemporary America

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Tarte Tatin by Susan Herrmann Loomis

Filed under: Book Reviews — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Tarte Tatin Author: Susan Herrmann Loomis Genre: Cookery Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: Apr 1 2006 Pages: 564

Subtitled “Further adventurers in a small French town”, Tarte Tatin is the follow up to Susan Herrmann Loomis’ first memoir. On Rue Tatin was published in 2002 and describes how she, her sculptor husband Michael and their two-year-old son Joe decided to move to France, searched for their dream home and ended up in the little town

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The Group by Mary McCarthy

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Group Author: Mary McCarthy Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harcourt Inc Release Date: 1991 Pages: 487

McCarthy’s novel focuses on the lives of eight young women after they graduate from New York’s Vassar College in 1933. By following the different choices they make right up to 1940 McCarthy mirrors changes in America, both political and social. In charting the girls’ individual development, she invokes debate about sex, contraception

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Taste: A New Way to Cook by Sybil Kapoor

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Taste: A New Way to Cook Author: Sybil Kapoor Genre: Cookery Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Release Date: 2003

In a world full of cookbooks, Sybil Kapoor’s Taste: A New Way to Cook is truly an innovation. Kapoor writes from a more scientific perspective than most food writers, explaining in great detail about the elementary tastes of sour, salt, umani (savoury), bitter and sweet. She helps the reader to understand basic taste combinations and how these

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The Lighthouse by PD James

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Lighthouse Author: P. D. James Genre: Thriller Publisher: Vintage Books Release Date: Oct 1 2006 Pages: 383

I am somewhat surprised that I have managed to get this far in life without ever having picked up a PD James novel. As a huge fan of crime fiction, it seems incredible that The Lighthouse is the first of Ms James’ books to end up in my ‘must read’ pile.

James’ main protagonist is Adam Dalgliesh who, I am reliably informed

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Taste: Baking With Flavour by Dean Brettschneider and Lorraine Jacobs

Filed under: Book Reviews — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Taste: Baking With Flavour Author: Dean Brettschneider and Lorraine Jacobs Genre: Cookery Publisher: Random House New Zealand

Taste: Baking With Flavour is the third book from the partnership of professional baker Dean Brettschneider and contributing food editor at Cuisine magazine, Lorraine Jacobs. Their first two books – The New Zealand Baker and Baker, The Best of International Baking from Australian and New Zealand Professionals – were perhaps a little too

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The Master by Colm Tóibín

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Literature — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Master Author: Colm Tóibín Genre: Literature, Irish Publisher: Pan Macmillan Release Date: 2005-01 Pages: 359

The Master is Colm Tóibín’s sixth work of fiction and by far his best. Shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize, Tóibín was unlucky not to win. Focusing on the life of Henry James, Tobin has created a wonderful work of fiction that reads like a biography.

The book opens in 1895 as James’ play Guy Domville has received an appalling reception

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A Taste For It by Monica McInerney

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: A Taste for it Author: Monica McInerney Genre: Chick-Lit Release Date: Jan 1 2001 Pages: 437

‘A Taste For It’ is the story of talented chef Maura Carmody who travels to Ireland to promote her brother’s wine and Australian food. This business trip also provides the ideal opportunity to research her family roots and find out a little more about the birth mother that she never met. All is not plain sailing, however, as Maura

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