Not Just For Christmas is from New Island’s Open Door series. This series features original or adapted works from well know Irish authors and is designed to open the door to reading for those who are less literate and improve their skills while enjoying
Grisham’s latest novel, The Broker, is set outside the USA. It’s only the second time Grisham has gone down this route, the first being The Testament published in 1999, which takes place in Brazil and is deemed by many to be one of Grisham’s best.
Claire is different from the other mother’s that bring their children to play school, she doesn’t like coffee mornings and endless discussions about childbirth, in fact she doesn’t have any friends. Though she would never admit it she’s
Leningrad 1941, Hitler has just declared war on Russia, the hard lives of the impoverished Metanov family are about to become impossible. Tatiana is 16 years old; she and her family live in two rooms in a communal apartment in Leningrad. She works in a factory
DI Tom Thorne is tracking a vicious contract killer. X marks the spot and each of the victims so far have the X cut deeply into their backs. Ex-DCI Carol Chamberlain has problems of her own. A case has come back to haunt her, a case where a young schoolgirl
Benedict Kiely, one of Ireland’s best-known broadcasters, storytellers and short story writers published The Captain with the Whiskers in 1960. Reissued now by Methuen, set at a specific era in Ireland’s recent history but is a story
Cecilia Cornaro got a taste for being “loved properly” when she was lured from her bath to fall into the arms of the famed seducer Cassanova. Just thirteen, she was a child of Venice, a city which at that time – the late eighteenth century – spent six
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is exactly what it says on the tin (well cover). It is a catalogue of the sexual encounters of one woman – Catherine Millet, the Parisian Art Critic and editor of Art Press. Millet is indeed a real person
What makes anyone want to box, and why would a woman want to get into the ring? The reasons according to Kate Sekules – journalist, travel writer, food critic and boxer – are similar but varied. Sekules’ adolescence was where she discovered
The femmes universally slammed Anne Tyler’s Back When We Were Grown-ups when we read it back in 2004; in fact it was the book that gave rise to the famous “itchy tights” quote from our Connoisseur. The biggest problem we had with it was annoyance
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