Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

January 10, 2012

JK Rowling by Marc Shapiro

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: JK Rowling Author: Marc Shapiro Genre: Biography Release Date: 2003 Pages: 144

Marc Shapiro is an entertainment journalist based in California who also writes well-timed unauthorised celebrity biographies: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gillian Anderson, Mariah Carey, Sarah Jessica Parker and Carlos Santana can be counted among his victims. His most recent is a biography of the late George Harrison (published February 2002) &#8211

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At Ruby’s by Frank Delaney

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: At Ruby's Author: Frank Delaney Genre: General Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: 2002

Wealthy architect Nicholas Newman is an ordinary man, although perhaps more self-aware than most, who gets caught up in extraordinary events beyond his control. He’s also the hero of At Ruby’s, the third book in Frank Delaney’s Gemstone Trilogy.

As in the first two books, The Amethysts and Pearl, Newman struggles with the evil that

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Other People’s Rules by Julia Hamilton

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Other People's Rules Author: Julia Hamilton Genre: Thriller Release Date: Apr 5 2001 Pages: 487

The beautiful Kate Gresham went missing on the night of her sixteenth birthday party on her family’s Scottish estate in 1978. Despite offers of rewards from her father, multi-millionaire and pop icon, Michael Gresham, neither she nor her body is found. But other girls have also gone missing that summer and when their murderer is caught he confesses

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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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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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