Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

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”

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This is the book that Frank Delaney describes as the end of his apprenticeship. Considering the books he has already written – including The Bell Walk, At Ruby’s, Pearl – this is a pretty powerful statement, but does Ireland: A Novel live up to Delaney’s expectations?

The title is itself a proclamation, announcing that this

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One of the great contemporary masters of the short story, American writer Tobias Wolff is also well known for his literary memoirs – 1989’s This Boy’s Life told the tale of his precarious boyhood in the Pacific Northwest and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War continued his story as a reluctant officer in Vietnam.

Wolff’s

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