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January 10, 2012

How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

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

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

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

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

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Jeremy Pordage has been employed by Mr Stoyte to go through a wealth of historical documents he has purchased from two down-on-their-luck spinsters of the English aristocracy.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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Judith Cullen’s Cookery Classes

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

Title: Judith Cullen's Cookery Classes Author: Judith Cullen Genre: Cookery Publisher: Longacre Press

New Zealand cook Judith Cullen used to run her own café in Dunedin before she changed careers to become a successful teacher of cookery classes, many of which are run from her home. Judith Cullen’s Cookery Classes is her first published book but she has a fresh and simple approach that many more seasoned cookbook writers would envy.

Staying

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Les Liaisons Culinaires by Andreas Staïkos

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

Les Liaisons Culinaires by Andreas Staïkos
(Published by The Harville Press)

A flirtatious fable of fabulous food, Les Liaisons Culinaires is every foodie’s dream. The slight tale is little more than a framework on which Greek author Andreas Staïkos hangs evocative and sensuous descriptions of food, the recipes

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Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag

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

Title: Kill the Messenger Author: Tami Hoag Genre: Thriller Release Date: Jun 1 2011 Pages: 423

I love thrillers. More importantly I love the way Tami Hoag writes a thriller. Combining gory death with true life experiences, Hoag produces believable writing in a way not many modern crime thriller writers can.

At the end of a long day battling street traffic, bike messenger Jace Damon has one last drop to make. But, en route to delivering a package

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Life Mask by Emma Donoghue

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Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
(Published by Virago Press)

Set in London during the late eighteenth century and with the French Revolution as its bloody and passionate backdrop, Life Mask tells the tale of three women caught in a kind of love triangle. Donoghue’s fourth novel is formed around a fictional recreation

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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

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

Title: Kitchen Author: Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus, Genre: Japan Release Date: 1993 Pages: 150

When Kitchen was published in 1987, it was regarded as a radical new addition to the canon of Japanese writing. The fact that it was written by a woman, and a young woman at that, made the book even more of a talking point. In terms of writing from the Orient, it wasn’t like anything that preceded it, or succeeded it, given the gamut of books

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A Life of Her Own by Dee Cunningham

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

A Life of Her Own by Dee Cunningham
(Published by Marino)

This is the girl who has it all; great friends, a successful career and a happy life, but underneath the smiling exterior she is hiding a dark and painful past. Cathy Carmody is young and successful but a series of events suddenly bring back memories of a

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