Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

January 10, 2012

Rachel’s Favourite Food for Friends by Rachel Allen

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Rachel's Favourite Food for Friends Author: Rachel Allen Genre: Cooking Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Release Date: 2005 Pages: 224

First there was Myrtle Allen who was responsible for singlehandedly raising the profile and quality of Irish food through her work abroad and in her country house hotel at Ballymaloe. Daughter-in-law Darina backed her up, beginning the Ballymaloe Cookery School and, with her Simply Delicious television series and books, started pushing the message

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Comfort Food: Eating for Pleasure by Maxine Clark

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Comfort Food Author: Maxine Clark Genre: Cooking Publisher: Aquamarine Release Date: 2001 Pages: 128

Now this cookbook is right up my alley. The combination of the words comfort, food, eating and pleasure – especially in winter – talk far more to me that those hated phrases low fat, slimline and reduced calories. Which isn’t to say that comfort food is going to have a drastic effect on your waistline, although it might! It’s

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The Cook’s Companion by Stephanie Alexander

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Cook's Companion Author: Stephanie Alexander Genre: Cooking Publisher: Penguin Global Release Date: 2007-02 Pages: 1126

This distinctive book – its size and multi-coloured stripes will ensure that you won’t mislay it in your kitchen – is a veritable tome but it is surprisingly readable. It sat on my coffee table for a month, chapters to be digested along with meals, and it has so many post-its hanging out of it to mark the ideas that interest me

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Elvis, Jesus and Me by Emer McCourt

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Elvis, Jesus and Me Author: Emer McCourt Genre: Brothers and sisters Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: 2004 Pages: 212

Ger is 12 years old and her holy trinity is Jesus, Elvis and Neil Armstrong. Her daily prayer consists of “Dear God, please turn me into a boy tonight. I’ll be good forever…and I’ll give all my pocket money to the starving babies in Africa.” Seany is her younger brother and, although he adores Ger, he is delighted to

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The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories, 2004-5 Author: David Marcus Genre: Authors, Irish Release Date: 2005 Pages: 325

Compilations, be they of music or film, usually tend to be a varied bag of glittering gems and damp squibs. Faber’s new Irish collection of short stories is no exception, but the word ‘new’ hints temptingly at the possibility of more undiscovered writers than are actually included here. One thing an anthology like this promises

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The Hollow Heart by Martina Devlin

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Hollow Heart Author: Martina Devlin Genre: Chick-Lit

Women take certain things for granted. Many of us assume that if, and when, we decide to have a baby, getting pregnant will be a walk in the park. We will stop using birth control and nine months later our child will be born. Martina Devlin learned that it is not always as straightforward as that.

Having spent years concentrating on her career in

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Jenny Bristow: A Taste of Sunshine

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: A Taste of Sunshine Author: Jenny Bristow Genre: Cooking Publisher: Blackstaff Press Release Date: 2006-02-01 Pages: 128

Northern Irish cookery writer, radio and UTV television presenter Jenny Bristow has chosen to concentrate on Mediterranean food in her latest book, A Taste of Sunshine. With an emphasis on variety, simple ingredients and cooking meals from fresh raw unprocessed ingredients, Jenny comes firmly down on the side of healthy cooking. She doesn’t

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Last Chance to Eat: The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World by Gina Mallet

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Last Chance to Eat Author: Gina Mallet Genre: Cooking Publisher: W. W. Norton Release Date: 2004-08-01 Pages: 386

Although cursed with an uninviting cover, Last Chance to Eat, with its investigations into the history and eating of a variety of foodstuffs, is a fascinating read for anyone with even the barest interest in food. For foodies, it should be essential.

Toronto-based Gina Mallet uses her particular memories – a post-WWII childhood in egg-less Britain

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Like Nowhere Else by Denyse Woods

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Like Nowhere Else Author: Denyse Woods Genre: Ireland Release Date: 2005 Pages: 336

Before this I had never read a book that aroused in me such an interest in a country that I previously knew nothing about. In Like Nowhere Else our main character, Vivien, fell in love with Yemen through travel books when she was younger. She has now travelled to Yemen to see it for herself. En route she meets anthropologist Christian Linklater and

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Where the Rain Gets in by Adrian White

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Where the Rain Gets in Author: Adrian White Genre: General Fiction

Adrian White’s first novel, An Accident Waiting to Happen, was published in 2004, reviewed and enjoyed by a fellow Femme. Therefore, it was with a certain eagerness that I started this book – I was not disappointed.

A phone call out of the blue to Kate, our main protagonist, brings a man she would prefer to forget back into her life. He

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