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January 10, 2012

The Truth Club by Grace Wynne-Jones

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: The Truth Club Author: Grace Wynne-Jones Publisher: Accent Press Pages: 408

Sally Adams has a confusing life. She has a job as a freelance journalist and a group of very supportive friends. She is even on good terms with her ex-husband Diarmuid – but why is he her ex? Why does she avoid writing her articles? Why has her perfectly satisfactory life suddenly lost its meaning?

Sally’s great aunt Aggie is dying and

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Ice Road by Gillian Slovo

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

Title: Ice Road Author: Gillian Slovo Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: 2005 Pages: 544

Ice Road is a chilling and desperate story. Based in Leningrad during Stalin’s reign, Gillian Slovo uses a humble cleaner, Irina Davydovna, as her central character. Russia was never an easy place to live but, during Stalin’s rule and with the onslaught of World War II around the corner, it could only get worse.

Irina, though only a humble

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I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne

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

Title: I Choose to Live Author: Sabine Dardenne Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: 2006 Pages: 213

Sabine Dardenne’s memoir is probably one of the most difficult books I’ve ever read. It was hard to read, not because of the language, or the format, or the style, but because it was one of the saddest and most upsetting accounts I’ve ever come across in a book.

Marc Dutroux was sentenced to 13 years for the rape of two children

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I’m Irish: Get Me Out of Here! by Donal Ruane

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

Title: I'm Irish Get Me Out of Here Author: Donal Ruane Genre: Biography Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd Pages: 233

Donal Ruane has taken it upon himself to explain why the Irish are so fed up. Apparently we are suffering from a national hangover. For years we have had this party, called the Celtic Tiger, and now the party is over we all have a bit of a headache, according to Ruane.

The first part of this book is Ruane having a good old moan, giving out about binge

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The Money Doctor: How to Achieve Total Financial Health – Quickly and Easily by John Lowe

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

Title: The Money Doctor Author: John Lowe Genre: Irish Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd Pages: 400

John Lowe is an expert in personal finance and he has written this book to help those of us who tend to put brown envelopes with windows into a drawer and forget about them.

In a practical way, Lowe gives advice on how to get the best value for our mortgages, credit cards and loans. He suggest goals for each person to work out and provides a glossary

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Moorish by Greg and Lucy Malouf

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

Title: Moorish Author: Greg Malouf, Lucy Malouf, Genre: Cooking Release Date: 2011 Pages: 213

Moorish is the second cookbook by Greg and Lucy Malouf, restaurateur and food writer respectively. Greg, who is commonly regarded as one of Australia’s most innovative chefs, has been credited with influencing and introducing a generation of chefs and diners to the flavours, tastes and textures of the Middle East through his cooking in O’Connell’s

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Unwrapped: Green and Black’s Chocolate Recipes edited by Caroline Jeremy

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

Title: Unwrapped: Green and Black's Chocolate Recipes Author: edited by Caroline Jeremy Genre: Cookery

Since I first saw this in our local Oxfam shop in Dublin I’ve been having lustful thoughts about it. Green & Black produce fabulous organic Fair Trade chocolate – their spice/orange Maya Gold bar heading the list of my all time favourite chocolates – and the photos that I saw on a brief browse through the book were mouth-watering

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Watermark by Sean O’Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The DJ @ 12:55 pm

Title: Watermark Author: Sean O'Reilly Genre: General Fiction, Irish

Sean O’Reilly’s last novel, The Swing of Things, focuses on two men who are barely managing to keep their heads above the rising tide of Dublin’s darker side. Suspended in a sort of self-destructive bubble, they seem resolved to wander in an existential fug, trying to discover where they should go in life.

In his new novel, Watermark

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Call Me Elizabeth by Dawn Annandale

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

Title: Call Me Elizabeth Author: Dawn Annandale Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Warner Books Release Date: 2006 Pages: 290

Dawn Annandale did not have a particularly pleasant childhood, her father began to sexually abuse her when she was eleven. She spent her teenage years coming up with excuses to stay away from home and at the earliest opportunity she got a job and moved out. Her childhood did nothing for her, except to make her crave a happy, secure and safe environment

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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

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

Title: Gilead Author: Marilynne Robinson Genre: Fiction Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: 2004 Pages: 247

In 1981 Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping. The book was so well received that Robinson has managed to maintain a devoted audience ever since. Now she has published Gilead; although undoubtedly a new masterpiece, it is nothing like her previous success.

Reverend John Ames is 76 and close to death. As a way to soften the blow

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