Title:
All Passion Spent
Author:
Vita Sackville-West
Genre:
General Fiction
Publisher:
Virago Modern Classics
Release Date:
1982
Pages:
193
The story of the life of Vita Sackville-West is as fascinating as any novel. Most famously she was the close friend and lover of Virginia Woolf. This is not merely a salacious titbit but part of the information imparted in Victoria Glendinning’s introduction to All Passion Spent. Information that lends much to the understand of Sackville-West
Title:
Recipes for a Perfect Marriage
Author:
Kate Kerrigan
Genre:
Chick-Lit, Irish
Publisher:
Pan
Pages:
336
Tressa is a New York food writer in her late thirties. Just home from her honeymoon, after marrying the gorgeous Dan, she already doubts their marriage. Convinced that she married Dan because she was terrified of being left on the shelf, Tressa wonders if she has made a terrible mistake.
Bernardine was Tressa’s grandmother. Born in Ireland in
Title:
The Onion Girl
Author:
Tina Reilly
Genre:
Chick-Lit, Irish
Publisher:
Poolbeg Press
Release Date:
Jan 1 2001
Pages:
520
“being abandoned is worse than someone telling you you’re worthless. At least if someone says you’re worthless, they’re still here, beside you, talking.” – Act Three, Naked by Alfonso Morelli
Two people who once meant everything to each other are about to meet again, but ten years later can the spark still be there
Title:
Perish Twice
Author:
Robert B. Parker
Genre:
Thriller
Publisher:
Penguin
Release Date:
2001
Pages:
334
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall comes to the aid of three very different women as she investigates threats against a prominent feminist and assists her best friend and older sister, each of whom is confronting a wrenching personal struggle, in this well-plotted thriller by the author of Family Honor and Hugger Mugger. Reprint.
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.
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
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
Title:
Northern Lights
Author:
Philip Pullman
Genre:
General Fiction
Release Date:
2011
Pages:
397
Northern Lights is the first part of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. I’d heard many good reviews of this ‘crossover’ series before making the purchase of all three as a present for my brother. I had no intention of actually reading them myself but thought, “I’ll just take a peek at the first page”
Title:
Not What You Think
Author:
Melissa Hill
Genre:
Chick-Lit
Publisher:
Random House
Release Date:
2005
Pages:
527
Laura, Helen and Nicola have been friends for along time – three very different women with three very different careers.
Laura is a secretary but has always designed her own jewellery and now, with the help and support of the wonderful Neil, she is starting her own company.
Nicola, is Ms Independent. She loves her home, her job and has the lovely
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