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January 10, 2012

The Summer House, Later by Judith Herman

Filed under: Book Reviews,Literature — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Summer House, Later Author: Judith Hermann Genre: Literature Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 2001 Pages: 138

Subtitled “A book about the moment before happiness”, ‘The Summer House, Later’ has variously been described as melancholy, elegant, powerful, touching and reflective – it is all of those things and more. A literary sensation in her native Germany, Judith Herman achieves a kind of stillness in her writing that is both

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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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Someone Like You by Cathy Kelly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Someone Like You Author: Cathy Kelly Release Date: 2001 Pages: 688

Three woman meet on a cruise ship on the River Nile and a bond is formed that will last forever. Single, sexy Hannah is trying desperately to forget the man who betrayed her and is concentrating on her career – but is she really happy living a single life again? Emma has been married for two years to a wonderful man, but she’s desperate

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Something Borrowed by Tina Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Something Borrowed Author: Tina Reilly Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Times Warner

Vicky McCarthy doesn’t know who she is. Adopted as a baby, a fact revealed to her when she was twelve, she just never really fitted it. Finally her curiosity has got the better of her and she wants to trace her birth mother.

Meanwhile in work, the bosses son, Ed, has just started working for her. Vicky is convinced that he’s being groomed

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Sophia’s Story by Susan McKay

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Biography — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sophia's Story Author: Susan McKay Genre: Biography Release Date: 2004 Pages: 199

In 1995 Joseph McColgan was arrested in the West of Ireland, he was dubbed ‘The West of Ireland’ farmer by the newspapers. Over a period of 15 years he had repeatedly raped, assaulted and physically abused his wife and six children, as news of his appalling treatment of his family came to light the public wanted questions answered; how

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Sex, Lies and Fairytales by Kate Thompson

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sex, Lies and Fairytales Author: Kate Thompson Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Release Date: 2005 Pages: 333

Cleo Dowling won the lottery and is now running a bookshop in a small West of Ireland village called Kilrowan. Cleo and her gorgeous husband Pablo are definitely living the dream but all too quickly the dream becomes a nightmare when Pablo’s commission to paint a Dublin 4 princess threatens to ruin their marriage.

Pixi Pirelli is an incredibly

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The Small Boat Of Great Sorrows by Dan Fesperman

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Small Boat of Great Sorrows Author: Dan Fesperman Genre: Thriller Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 2003 Pages: 307

Vlado Petric is a former detective from war-torn Sarajevo. Having escaped his homeland he now lives in Berlin with his wife and daughter, working on construction sites. Life isn’t easy and, although he tries to settle, Petric longs for home.

Returning from work one evening he receives a visit from Calvin Pine, an enigmatic American investigator

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Shadows and Light: Joni Mitchell by Karen O’Brien

Filed under: Book Reviews,Music,Biography — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Joni Mitchell Author: Karen O'Brien Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Virgin Pub Release Date: 2002 Pages: 374

From her self-titled debut in 1968 through the masterpiece of Blue, her jazz experimentation years and her most recent album, Travelogue Now, Joni Mitchell has released 19 albums over the course of a career that has spanned almost 40 years. She’s a musician who has managed to be consistently innovative on her recorded output and who has worked

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Said and Done by Annie Sparrow

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Said and Done Author: Annie Sparrow Genre: Chick-Lit Publisher: Orbit Books Release Date: 2001 Pages: 358

Emma is a 35-year-old legal secretary. Working in a small office of a large solicitors firm in London hasn’t exactly prepared her for the high life, neither has marriage to Tony, her husband of seven years.

Tony left the army six years ago and has been working as a bouncer on the door of the local pub. Emma, has put on weight and hides behind

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Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Daughter of the Queen of Sheba Author: Jacki Lyden Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: 1999 Pages: 258

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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