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January 10, 2012

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Jeremy Pordage has been employed by Mr Stoyte to go through a wealth of historical documents he has purchased from two down-on-their-luck spinsters of the English aristocracy.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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Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Mary Anne Author: Daphne Du Maurier Genre: Fiction Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. Release Date: Oct 1 2009 Pages: 455

Better known for her fiction – of which I am a fan – Du Maurier’s Mary Anne is a biography of her great-great-grandmother. Mary Anne was a courtesan, the mistress of Frederick Duke of York, second son of King George III. Du Maurier effortlessly mingles fact and fiction to build a vivid portrait of a woman who would stop at nothing

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Mediterranean Cook by Paul Gayler

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Mediterranean Cook Author: Paul Gayler Genre: Cookery Publisher: Jacqui Small Release Date: 2004 Pages: 144

British chef Paul Gayler’s latest book is like a wonderful taster menu of Mediterranean cookery. Dividing the countries around the Mediterranean Sea into four different sections – Central Mediterranean, Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean, Mahgreb and Egypt – Gayler gives a brief overview of cooking in countries ranging from France to

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How the Light Gets In by MJ Hyland

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cult,General Fiction — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: How the Light Gets in Author: M. J. Hyland Genre: Australians Publisher: Walker Release Date: Jun 1 2011 Pages: 329

In many of the best books with a precocious teen protagonist, the hero/ine tries to figure out who they are and get away from where they come from. Lou Connors doesn’t have to do either – she knows very well who she is and has already succeeded in making it to the USA, at least for a summer as an exchange student. Leaving behind her sedentary

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Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway

Filed under: Book Reviews,Classics — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Men Without Women Author: Ernest Hemingway Genre: Classics Publisher: Arrow Books Release Date: 1927 Pages: 130

A second collection of short stories that once again establish Hemingway as a novelist of exceptional power. Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness, unsoftened by woman's hand. Incisive, hard edged, pared down to the bare minimum, they

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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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