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January 10, 2012

Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Lipstick Jungle Author: Candace Bushnell Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Abacus Pages: 448

For her fourth book, Candace Bushnell tries to recreate a world as compelling and fascinating as Sex and The City. Unfortunately she has not succeeded.

In Lipstick Jungle, high fashion meets the powerful women who actually wear it. Single, beautiful, creative and unconventional, Victory Ford has worked for years to create her own independent fashion

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The Messiah by Boris Starling

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Messiah Author: Boris Starling Genre: Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 1999 Pages: 483

A stunning, shocking, wonderfully well written debut reminiscent of James Patterson and one that will catapault Boris Starling to the front rank of thriller writers.

The summer of 1998 sees London in the middle of a heat wave with a killer on the loose. Men are being murdered in their homes in the middle of the night, the only clue – a silver

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The Lives of the Muses, Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Lives of the Muses, Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired Author: Francine Prose Genre: Biography Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 432

Starting with writer Samuel Johnson’s muse Hester Thrale and moving on to Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll’s inspiration for Alice in Wonderland), Pre-Raphaelite beauty Elizabeth Siddal and Salvador Dali’s wife Gala, this is a multi-biography with an art slant and a theme as fascinating as the lives of the women who inspired it.

What

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A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: A Million Little Pieces Author: James Frey Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: John Murray Pubs Limited Release Date: 2004 Pages: 513

A Million Little Pieces is set in the roller coaster timeframe of James Frey’s torturous ride through rehabilitation. While struggling to find a new life, Frey shares his past life of debauchery and addiction with astonishing honesty and clarity, giving the usual self-pity a gracious miss.

Frey started drinking regularly at the early age of

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Living the Dream by Kate Thompson

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Living the Dream Author: Kate Thompson Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Release Date: Jun 1 2005 Pages: 619

Living the Dream is Kate Thompson’s seventh novel and sees the return of some of her favourite characters.

Cleo Dowling’s dream has just come true, she’s won the lotto. Even though she is determined not to change, everyone’s attitude towards her does change, so Cleo takes off to a small village in the west of Ireland

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How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People Author: Toby Young Genre: Biography Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers Release Date: 2008 Pages: 349

At some point in their career, most journalists dream of conquering the land of Manhattan’s glossy mags. Undeterred by a world where infamous ball-breaker Tina Brown is Queen, Toby Young went Stateside for five years in search of success, supermodels and better cocaine. Thus begins a voyage of self-discovery bristling with a naivety that rarely

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — Femmes @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Lovely Bones Author: Alice Sebold Genre: Thriller Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: 2003 Pages: 328

In addition to having all the trappings of a page-turner, Alice Sebold’s morbid Lovely Bones explores two levels of death – both those that are left behind and the departed. The narrator is a young girl who is brutally murdered at the age of fourteen. The reader is taken through her struggles and attachments to the life she was tragically

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Loving Che by Ana Menendez

Filed under: Book Reviews,Literature — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Loving Che Author: Ana Menéndez Genre: Fiction Publisher: Grove Press Release Date: 2004-11 Pages: 229 “Farewell, but you will be with me, you will go within a drop of blood circulating in my veins”

These lines from a Pablo Neruda poem are the only link to the past that a young Cuban woman has to her mother. The words, scrawled on a piece of paper, are pinned to her clothes as she is abandoned to the care of her grandfather. The time is Cuba, at the height of the revolution, when the city’s inhabitants are fleeing the terror of Batista

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After Many a Summer by Aldous Huxley

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Artist @ 12:55 pm
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Title: After Many a Summer Author: Aldous Huxley Genre: Fiction Publisher: Ivan R Dee Release Date: 1976 Pages: 355

The bones of this story concern an English academic’s trip to America to stay with a rich tycoon.

Jeremy Pordage has been employed by Mr Stoyte to go through a wealth of historical documents he has purchased from two down-on-their-luck spinsters of the English aristocracy. Such is Stoyte’s style of personal aggrandisement, he has built

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My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: My Week with Marilyn Author: Colin Clark Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Weinstein Books Release Date: 2011 Pages: 320

Back in the summer of 1956, Colin Clark’s first job was as third assistant director (as he puts it, “the lowest of the low”) on a film called ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. Starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, the film was one of Monroe’s attempts to escape being typecast as a dumb blond, but her acting

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