Over the years, Patricia Scanlan has won herself a huge army of loyal fans. With a reputation built on the success of her brilliant earlier books, City Girl, City Women and City Lives, Scanlan has often been described as the prolific queen of contemporary
After such a positive experience with Keri Holmes’ The Bone People, I recently decided that it was time that I read more books by New Zealand authors. I tried to read Katherine Mansfield but short stories aren’t my cup of tea so I turned
Lily Prior’s debut novel plunges headfirst into the heady world of Sicilian life with its accompanying passions for life, love, family and cooking. After the tragic death of her first love, Bartolomeo, Rosa Fiore buried herself in her family kitchen and cooked unendingly
Christopher Boone is the unlikeliest of storytellers. He is a teenage boy with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of autism) but neither term is ever mentioned in this excellent book. That said, this is very much his book and it is
In his book The Short Story, Sean O’Faolain reminisces about the time he taught creative writing in London. One young man submitted a story about an aristocratic man
This is Lee Dunne’s twenty first work of fiction and once again Dunne has struck just the right note. Based in Dublin in 1902, Sam Sweet dives into the Liffey after a street urchin who has stolen his wallet. Beautiful, rich Victoria Brewer witnesses the
Brazilian Paulo Coelho is one of the most widely read authors in the world. His works include ‘The Pilgrimage’, ‘By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept’, and the recent ‘Veronica Decides to Die’, but he
Symbologist Robert Langdon is in Paris to attend a conference. Woken late one night, he is taken to a murder scene. The victim is Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere, who Langdon was supposed to meet earlier in the evening. Intriguingly, Sauniere has left a clue as
The Bibliofemme book for 26th February 2004 was The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford. Love in a Cold Climate revisits the settings and characters of The Pursuit of Love but places the accent on the Hampton
Despite a New Year’s Resolution to ration my junk television hours, I managed to begin 2006 with a barely curbed addiction to Celebrity Big Brother. Now that it has come to its inevitable conclusion, I’ve finally had time to sit down and consider a book
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