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January 10, 2012

Only Say the Word by Niall Williams

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm

Title: Only Say the Word Author: Niall Williams Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Picador Pages: 400

This book blew me away with its relentless sense of longing, a yearning shot through with glimmers of hope that are constantly knocked back down. It’s a book about death and love (of people and place), the search for a sense of meaning in life and, perhaps most interestingly, the agonising process of writing itself.

The story is driven by an

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Pieces of Me by Róisín Ingle

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Biography — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Pieces of Me Author: Róisín Ingle Genre: Biography, Irish Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Release Date: 2005 Pages: 413

If you are an Irish Times reader you are probably familiar with Róisín Ingle. She writes a column in the Irish Times Magazine every Saturday and seems to be either loved or hated by the readers. Pieces of Me is a collection of the articles that she has written over the last three years.

Róisín grew up in Sandymount, Dublin, living two doors down

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The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: The Other Side of the Story Author: Marian Keyes Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Release Date: 2007 Pages: 656

Three women with seemingly unrelated lives form a circle where everything that goes around, comes around.

Jojo Harvey is a literary agent, and also energetic, ambitious and sexy to boot. Highly competitive, Jojo is desperate to climb the corporate ladder. But, with inter-office politics running high, life isn’t easy – and of course Jojo

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Out of Me by Fiona Shaw

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The DJ @ 12:55 pm

Title: Out of Me Author: Fiona Shaw Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: Jan 1 2001 Pages: 222

‘Out of Me’ is the title of Fiona Shaw’s commendable debut detailing her descent into chronic post-natal depression and her subsequent attempt to claw back from this nightmare. The title of the book refers to Shaw’s overwhelming need to externalise her life. Her reason for writing the book is intrinsically connected to her

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A Painted House by John Grisham

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: A Painted House Author: John Grisham Genre: Thriller Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2011 Pages: 466

Cotton farmers living on bad land, a poor family struggle to make a living in South Arkansas. Luke is seven years old, all his life all he has known is farming: the planting season in May, Summer weeding, and picking in September. Living in a small house that has never been painted and renting eighty acres of land outside the small town of Black

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Paris, France: Personal Recollections by Gertrude Stein

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Writer @ 12:55 pm

Title: Paris France Author: Gertrude Stein Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers Release Date: 2003 Pages: 120

On her deathbed Gertrude Stein asked, “What is the answer?” No one replied, so she laughed and responded herself, her famous last words being, “Then what is the question?”

I have not read anything else by Stein but on the evidence of this book, you get the feeling she was never one to let a comfortable silence lie.

Quirky, irreverent

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Passage by Connie Willis

Filed under: Book Reviews,Science Fiction — The Historian @ 12:55 pm

Title: Passage Author: Connie Willis Genre: Fiction Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 2001 Pages: 594

Sometimes a fascination with death can take you too far from the living as Dr Joanna Lander discovers during her research into near-death experiences (NDEs) at the sprawling Mercy General Hospital. Confined to documenting the accounts of patients, Lander jumps at the chance to work with neurologist Richard Wright who has discovered a way of tricking

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One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The DJ @ 12:55 pm

Title: One by One in the Darkness Author: Deirdre Madden Genre: General Fiction Release Date: 2013 Pages: 181

One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and 1970s. The history of both a family and a society, One by One in the Darkness confirms Deirdre Madden's reputation as one of Irish fiction's

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One For My Baby by Tony Parsons

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Historian @ 12:55 pm

Title: One for My Baby Author: Tony Parsons Genre: General Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 2002 Pages: 378

In the mould of Nick Hornby, Tony Parsons writes about sensitive, baffled thirty-something men searching for some meaning to their lives by immersing themselves in sport, music or – as in this case – the beds of foreign students. Alfie Budd is the man in question.

Alfie is a man in mourning for a girl he considered perfect – beautiful

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One More Chance by Liz Ryan

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: One More Chance Author: Liz Ryan Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Coronet Release Date: Jun 21 2004 Pages: 473

Aileen has been running her B&B in Galway for the past 20 years, addicted to foreign shows about relocating she now decides the time has come to make some changes – but how can she convince her stuck in the rut husband Joe and her under-achieving punk son!

Shona is a 36 year old career orientated success story, but in one weekend her life

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