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January 10, 2012

My Summer of Love by Helen Cross

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: My Summer of Love Author: Helen Cross Genre: Fiction Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing UK Release Date: 2004 Pages: 248

Helen Cross’ debut is a darkly brooding tale of what happens when two teenage girls join forces one sultry summer in 1980s Yorkshire. Mona, the fifteen-year-old narrator, is a regular drinker and would-be criminal, addicted to fruit machines, obsessed with her weight and determined not to fit in with her sloppy, decidedly non-nuclear family

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Super Cannes by JG Ballard

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Super-Cannes Author: J. G. Ballard Genre: General Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Release Date: 2001 Pages: 391

It’s 2001 and in the wealthy suburbs of southern France post-millennium tension is sweeping the land. Vast business parks are home to largest corporate organisations and executives adhere strictly to the ethic of ‘work hard, play hard’. Immense buildings and phallic skyscrapers dot the landscape while the population resembles powerful

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Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sushi for Beginners Author: Marian Keyes Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Penguin Books Release Date: Aug 2 2012 Pages: 563

Three women in Dublin are going through a period of change in their lives. Bitchy, ambitious and beautiful, Lisa has been sent to Dublin to launch a brand new Irish Women’s Magazine, however as she thought her next move was to New York she feels like she is in exile and is none to happy with the alternative. On arrival she decides that her

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Sweet Talking Money by Harry Bingham

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sweet Talking Money Author: Harry Bingham Genre: Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 2001 Pages: 436

Cameron is a young scientist who has an idea that could revolutionise medicine, she believes that her research could cure potentially any disease known to man, including AIDS. Once published, she is sure her findings will change the world.

Bryn is an investment banker, all he cares about is money, when he meets Cameron, he sees the potential in her

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The Swing of Things by Sean O’Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Swing of Things Author: Sean O'Reilly Genre: Fiction, Irish Release Date: Jan 1 2005 Pages: 302

Sean O’Reilly’s first novel, Love and Sleep, made it on to the Irish Times’ list of the 50 Greatest Irish Novels, alongside such luminaries as Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and Patrick Kavanagh, while Curfew and Other Stories, his short story collection, was acclaimed by writers including Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann and Seamus Deane

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Take 6 Ingredients by Conrad Gallagher

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Take 6 Ingredients Author: Conrad Gallagher Genre: Cookery, Irish Release Date: 2003 Pages: 160

Michelin-starred Irish chef Conrad Gallagher sets out the ethos of this book in the introduction. Each recipe is to contain just six ingredients – not counting salt (Maldon Sea Salt), pepper (freshly ground) and best quality olive oil.

Gallagher always has been a curious mixture of the inspired (his cooking) and the pretentious (his behaviour

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Tangled Up in You by Gemma English

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Tangled Up in You Author: Gemma English Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Release Date: Jan 1 2004 Pages: 451

Keelan has left home and is living in London. On her first big night out she meets Matthew and they seem to be made for each other. Matthew is gorgeous and Keelan can’t believe that he would want to be with her so, when he decides that the relationship is over, Keelan isn’t surprised. In fact she’s just annoyed with him, so annoyed

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Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Star of the Sea Author: Joseph O'Connor Genre: General Fiction, Irish Publisher: Vintage Books Release Date: 2003 Pages: 410

The Star of the Sea is the ironic name of one of the coffin ships that made it’s way painstakingly slowly from Ireland to America during the time of the famine. Carrying a load of Irish peasants who lived in squalor that was inhumane in the least this novel depicts the journey of those on board.

From the outset we are informed that their has

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Tara’s Fortune by Geraldine O’Neill

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Tara's Fortune Author: Geraldine O'Neill Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Release Date: 2005 Pages: 550

Tara Flynn has everything she ever dreamed of, married to her first love Gabriel Fitzgerald she in now mistress of Ballygrace House, and wants for nothing. Having grown up with very little Tara counts her blessings, but after several years of marriage there is still one thing missing, Tara and Gabriel have no children.

Biddy, Tara’s childhood

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The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Stepford Wives Author: Ira Levin Genre: Thriller Publisher: Corsair Release Date: 2011 Pages: 139

Essentially a long short story, Ira Levin’s iconic tale of immaculate housewives in an American suburb is one of those books I’d always meant to read. With the release of the Nicole Kidman-fronted film, piles of copies beckoned from the bookshop shelves and it seemed as good a time as any to pick up this cult classic.

Despite its cultural

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