Typically modest, Jane Austen described her novels as “The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour”. In writing this biography, Carol Shields could have taken
In January 2003 Åsne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. Through bribery, pleading and begging she stayed for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her account of life
Jude is going through a difficult time. Her mother died last year and since then she feels uncertain as to who she is. Her life seems to be in free-fall and she’s tumbling from one event to the next. She has a feeling of detachment from her family – husband
Alice Rimmer was abandoned at Netherlands Orphanage when she was little more than a baby. But unlike the rest of the orphans Alice is different from the start: she has her own personality, she is defiant and she clings to the hope that her parents
True page-turners of a certain caliber are hard to find. I have been on the look out for a book that I would sink into from page one for many months now. Although I have found many wonderful books, this book will take you briefly into another
Sometimes the most fascinating literary crimes are the ones that happen for real. Forget the cult of celebrity and Hello magazine, nothing grabs the public attention faster than real-life murder. Even more so if at first it appears to be motiveless
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies would be one to recommend. This book flew of the shelf and into my hand on the wings of its stunning title. Later, I was pleased to find that as the pages
Switters is a walking contradiction; he is a CIA agent who hates the American Government, a pacifist who carries a gun and a vegetarian who loves gravy. Obsessed with innocence, the latest object of his affection is his 16-year-old stepsister
As the perfect birthday present for a person on the other side of the world to Ireland Clare Connery’s Irish Cooking: Over 100 Traditional Recipes comes pretty close. There’s nothing new about this cookbook – nor
Although these cookbooks are small, just 64 pages each, they are beautifully formed. The Irish Food books are from the same stable that produces
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