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January 10, 2012

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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Song for Salamander by Miriam Gallagher

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Artist @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Song for Salamander Author: Miriam Gallagher Genre: Fiction Publisher: Trafford Publishing Release Date: Nov 1 2003 Pages: 238

The press release starts off like this ‘When Salamander Quinn decides to liberate all the lost souls at St. Job’s Infirmary, he embarks on a Kafkaesque journey. Just before Christmas, his plans are further complicated by the arrival of a mystery woman, who sets in motion a chain of startling events. Faced with mounting odds, as his past

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Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Notes on a Scandal Author: Zoe Heller Genre: General Fiction Release Date: 2007-01 Pages: 243

Notes on a Scandal’s rapid pace and fascinating characters is enough to keep a reader’s fingers turning as Zoë Heller tackles the difficult subject of age of consent. She explores the subject through the relationship between two close friends; Sheba, a teacher that gets involved with one of her pupils, and Barbara, Sheba’s colleague

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Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Scarecrow Author: Matthew Reilly Genre: Thriller Publisher: Pan Macmillan Release Date: Dec 1 2009 Pages: 524

This is Matthew Reilly’s third offering in the Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield series, following on from Ice Station Matthew Reilly admits that he set out to make this book a faster book that was more densely packed with plot than his previous books; no mean feat considering how fast moving and action-packed his earlier books were

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Roast Figs, Sugar Snow by Diana Henry

Filed under: Book Reviews — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Roast Figs, Sugar Snow Author: Diana Henry Genre: Cookery Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Release Date: Sep 1 2014 Pages: 191

Derry woman and food writer Diana Henry has again come up trumps with her latest book, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow. Her first cookbook, Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons, focused on the tastes and enchantments of the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa. With praise from Claudia Roden and its appearance twice on the Glenfiddich award shortlist, it became

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Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

Filed under: Book Reviews,Music,Biography — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Scar Tissue Author: Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman, Genre: Biography, Music Publisher: Little Brown GBR Release Date: 2005 Pages: 465

Months after putting this book down, I still find myself wound up and generally disgusted by the amount one person can massage his ego between two covers. In stark contrast, James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces brought readers into the terrifying and helpless world of drug addiction with an unparalleled honesty that made Anthony Kiedis&#8217

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Robbers by Christopher Cook

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Robbers Author: Christopher Cook Genre: Thriller Publisher: No Exit Press Release Date: 2001 Pages: 372

Two drifters pull into a gas station; one of them tries to buy a packet of cigarettes but he’s a penny short so he shoots the clerk. Thus begins a trail of destruction.

Ray Bob and Eddie have recently been released from prison, they hook up in a bar and are best friends within five minutes – a lethal combination is born as they begin their

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Portrait In Sepia by Isabel Allende

Filed under: Book Reviews,Literature — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Portrait in Sepia Author: Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden, Genre: Literature Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 2002 Pages: 304

If you are an Isabel Allende fan you’ll already know what to expect from her new book. ‘Portrait In Sepia’ is a densely plotted tale set amongst an extended family, peopled by unforgettable exiles and marginalized characters and written in Allende’s typically rich and sensuous manner. This is the third in a loose trilogy

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Author: Agatha Christie Genre: Thriller Publisher: Harper Collins publishers Release Date: Jan 1 2002 Pages: 368

Agatha Christie devotees will without doubt have already read the book that catapulted her from leading mystery novelist to the undisputed Queen of Crime. First published by Collins in 1926, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ was Christie’s sixth full-length novel. Its controversial finale caused a rift amongst crime fiction fans with

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Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Sexing the Cherry Author: Jeanette Winterson Genre: Fiction Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2014 Pages: 169

Fantastical, poetical and a joy to read, Jeanette Winterson melds true historical events with pure imagination in a book that rambles from 1600s to present day London. Sexing the Cherry is a fairytale for adults, complete with characters that verge on the unbelievable and all the magic that fairytales hold.

The loosely held plot is the tale of a young

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