Title:
A widow for one year
Author:
John Irving
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Random House
Release Date:
1999-06-01
Pages:
667
Despite the fact that this book has been at hand for more than a year, somehow I never got round to reading it. The curse of the familiar bedside book, the “oh, I’ll read it soon” book! Somehow, though, it made its way through several culls as I moved and packed, managing to land in my travelling bag as something a captive audience
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Title:
Moorish
Author:
Greg Malouf, Lucy Malouf,
Genre:
Cooking
Release Date:
2011
Pages:
213
Moorish is the second cookbook by Greg and Lucy Malouf, restaurateur and food writer respectively. Greg, who is commonly regarded as one of Australia’s most innovative chefs, has been credited with influencing and introducing a generation of chefs and diners to the flavours, tastes and textures of the Middle East through his cooking in O’Connell’s
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Title:
Cooking for Mr. Latte
Author:
Amanda Hesser
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Release Date:
2004
Pages:
336
Unlike many foodie memoirs that add recipes on to the end of each chapter, Amanda Hesser – one of the food writers at the New York Times – understands the many meanings of food. Cooking for Mr Latte, subtitled A Food Lover’s Courtship, with Recipes, incorporates food as seduction and comfort, a means of binding together families
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Title:
The bone people
Author:
Keri Hulme
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Penguin Group USA
Release Date:
1988
Pages:
450
The Bone People was one of the books that I considered picking for my last, pre-New Zealand, bookclub. Instead, due to the lack of Kiwi books available in Irish bookshops, we ended up with The Colour. Rose Tremain’s novel wasn’t bad – particularly in its evocation of the landscape and weather of New Zealand – but, having read
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