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January 10, 2012

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote   
(Published by Penguin Modern Classics)

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

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Heaven Lies About Us by Eugene McCabe

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Heaven Lies About Us by Eugene McCabe  
(Published by Jonathan Cape)

Together, these twelve short stories by Irish author Eugene McCabe form a book full of people who – for a variety of reasons – feel they’d be better off dead than living the lives they lead. Right from the start McCabe turfs the reader

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The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel

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The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel  
(Published by Canongate)

Writing in the author’s note at the beginning of this republished collection, Yann Martel sets out what he tried to achieve with these writings: “A story must [also] stimulate the mind if it does not want to fade from memory

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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English by Terence Patrick Dolan

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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English by Terence Patrick Dolan
(Published by Gill & MacMillan)

Terry Dolan, if you’ve never heard him discussing Hiberno-English on Newstalk radio, is the Associate Professor of English at University College Dublin. Affable on the radio and in person (he taught me in UCD), he’s an

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Hotel Las Flores by Kate McCabe

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Hotel Las Flores by Kate McCabe   
(Published by Poolbeg)

Trish has a pressing problem – her husband Adrian is slowly losing his mind. Convinced he is the next James Joyce, his obsession with his writing and his novel which he is sure will win the Booker Prize are taking their toll on Trish. Bobby was deliriously

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Going Down by Kate Thompson

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Going Down by Kate Thompson   
(Published by Bantam Books)

Things aren’t going well for Ella Nesbit. Due to staff shortages she’s having to man a reception desk rather than work at the sound engineering job she loves; Justin, an unbearable new trainee, is throwing his weight around, and she’s got a major

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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik  

(Published by Bantam)

Sometimes life is like a bad waiter – it serves you exactly what you don’t want. The women of Freesia Court have come together at life’s table, fully convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a

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Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

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Good Behaviour by Molly Keane   
(Published by Virago Press )

This edition of Good Behaviour belongs to a newly reissued catalogue of Molly Keane’s work to coincide with the centenary of her birth. The introductions to three of them – Good Behaviour, Loving and Giving and Time After Time – are written

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How to Cook Absolutely Everything & Best Recipes for Absolutely Everything by Anne Willan

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How to Cook Absolutely Everything & Best Recipes for Absolutely Everything by Anne Willan  
(Published by Quadrille Publishing)

Before I started reading/reviewing these books, Anne Willan was unfamiliar to me but, as soon as they arrived, her name started to crop up in my reading with increasing regularity. An American

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Gram Parsons: God's Own Singer by Jason Walker

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Gram Parsons: God’s Own Singer by Jason Walker   
(Published by Helter Skelter)

Gram Parsons is the patron saint of Americana and, like all the best patron saints, he had the good grace to live fast and die young in a spectacular way in 1973. Gram Parsons: God’s Own Singer is a biography of the musician by Australian

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