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January 10, 2012

The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick

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

Title: The Murder Exchange Author: Simon Kernick Genre: Thriller Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2011-05 Pages: 431

When ex-mercenary Max Iversson is introduced to night-club owner Roy Fowler, he senses immediately that the man is trouble. Fowler wants security for a meeting with a group of ‘businessmen’ who are looking to buy his club. Five grand for a couple of hours’ work is too tempting a proposition to turn down, so Iversson – against

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Dangerous Muse: A Life of Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger

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

Title: Dangerous Muse Author: Nancy Schoenberger Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Da Capo Press Release Date: 2002 Pages: 400

“Mad, bad and dangerous to know” was Lady Caroline Lamb’s verdict on Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century. The same description could be applied to the beautiful Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996), a member of the celebrated (and perhaps cursed) Guinness family who, as part of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, was brought up in County

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My Friend Leonard by James Frey

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

Title: My Friend Leonard Author: James Frey Genre: Biography Publisher: John Murray Publishers Release Date: 2005 Pages: 400

James Frey brings us into his world again with his autobiographical sequel My Friend Leonard. After the very compelling A Million Little Pieces the author might have had a challenging time living up to his own self-created standard.

As outlined in my previous review, A Million Little Pieces divulges all of his fears, strengths and weaknesses in a

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Title: Never Let Me Go Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Genre: Fiction Publisher: Vintage Books Release Date: 2006 Pages: 288

In life as in art, sometimes the most familiar or everyday things can become terrifying in their ordinariness. In his studies of neurosis and hysteria, Freud invented a new word – “unheimlich”. While it’s difficult to translate specifically, (‘unhome-like’, ‘unnative’), it refers to a sense of the uncanny

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Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson

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

Title: Nigella Bites Author: Nigella Lawson Genre: Cookery Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus Release Date: 2001 Pages: 244

Although I have never seen the cookery series ‘Nigella Bites’ accompanies, this cookery book is more than able to stand on its own two feet. Nigella Lawson is a sexy earth-mother type with an undeniable talent for cooking and a belief in the restorative powers of good food.

She seductively takes you by the hand and leads you through evocatively-named

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Night Angels by Danuta Reah

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

Title: Night Angels Author: Danuta Reah Genre: Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pages: 368

A young woman’s body is found in a seedy hotel. She has been so badly beaten that the only clue to her identity is a card bearing the name of an escort agency notorious for trafficking Eastern European prostitutes. In Snake Pass, the car of Gemma Wishart, a young researcher is Russian languages is found abandoned – the driver has vanished

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Moments, Irish Women Writers in Aid of the Tsunami Victims

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

Title: Moments, Irish Women Writers in Aid of the Tsunami Victims Author: Edited by Ciara Considine Genre: Irish Publisher: Irish Book Publications Pages: 380

Anyone looking for a bite-sized taste of the best of Ireland’s contemporary women writers should check out this charity publishing project. Maeve Binchy, Cecelia Ahern, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Sheila O’Flanagan, Patricia Scanlan, Deirdre Purcell, Pauline McLynn, Kate Thompson, Emma Donoghue and thirty more familiar and not so familiar

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Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy

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

Title: Nights of Rain and Stars Author: Maeve Binchy Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Orion Media Release Date: 2005 Pages: 392

When Maeve Binchy published Scarlet Feather in 2001 we were told it was her last novel. The loss of an Irish author of Binchy’s calibre has left a gaping hole on the shelves in many bookshops around the world; a hole which countless young female Irish authors have since tried to fill, with very little success. However in August of this year

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A Moth at the Glass by Mogue Doyle

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

Title: A Moth at the Glass Author: Mogue Doyle Genre: Biography, Irish Publisher: Random House Release Date: Feb 1 2005 Pages: 239

Will is watching Kate Kelly through her kitchen window, like a moth at the glass he tries desperately to recapture his youth and leave behind the torment of the last forty years.

Set in Springmount, County Wexford, A Moth at the Glass tells the story of a family torn apart by tragedy. Will is destined to always watch the woman he loves through a pane

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A Mother’s Gift by Britney and Lynne Spears

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

Title: A Mother's Gift Author: Britney Spears, Lynne Spears, Genre: Biography Publisher: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers Release Date: 2001 Pages: 226

She sings, she dances, she pouts, she poses, and now she pens original fiction. Is anything beyond the reach of pop sensation Britney Spears? Co-written with her mother, Lynn, ‘A Mother’s Gift’ is recommended for ages 9 and up; it’s a sugar-sweet rags-to-riches tale of a girl from small town Mississippi whom everyone knows

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