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January 10, 2012

Irish Food – Slow & Traditional by John McKenna and Sally McKenna

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Irish Food – Slow & Traditional by John McKenna and Sally McKenna and Irish Food – Fast & Modern by Paul Flynn and Sally McKenna  
(Published by Estragon Press)

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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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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Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs

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Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs  
(Published by Arrow)

In Kathy Reichs’s fifth novel, the setting shifts from the familiar American and Canadian soil to a Guatemalan village, the site of a political massacre during that country’s bloody civil war that took the lives of thousands between 1962 and 1996. An international

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The Handbag Beauty Bible by Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey

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The Handbag Beauty Bible by Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey
(Published by Kyle Cathie Ltd )

What a great idea. Get real women (2400 of them) to test beauty products, report back on them and publish the details of the ones that work. Beauty and health editors Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey got 240 panels of ten women

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State of Happiness by Stella Duffy

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State of Happiness by Stella Duffy  
(Published by Virago Press)

Cindy and Jack meet at a party. Good looking, successful and carefree, they fall in love and survive all the usual tests of a relationship including his ex-wife, a cross-country move. But suddenly Cindy is diagnosed with a terminal illness, placing her on

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In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

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In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick  
(Published by Harper Collins)

Before Nantucket became the tourist mecca of rich mansions and designer shops we know today, whaling was its main business. In 1819, with whale oil prices climbing, this small island village more than twenty miles out into the Atlantic was on

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