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January 10, 2012

Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country by Gillian Slovo

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

Title: Every Secret Thing Author: Gillian Slovo Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Virago Press Release Date: 2010-04 Pages: 366

South African-born Gillian Slovo is the daughter of two extraordinary people – journalist and political activist Ruth First, murdered in Mozambique in 1982, and Joe Slovo, head of the South African communist party and one of the founders of the ANC’s military arm. Both privileged white people in the turbulent South Africa of the Fifties

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The Fat Ladies Club by H Gardener, A Bettridge, S Groves, A Jones, L Lawrence

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Title: The Fat Ladies Club Author: Hilary Gardener, Andrea Bettridge, Sarah Groves, Annette Jones, Lyndsey Lawrence, Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Penguin UK Release Date: 2003-11-06 Pages: 224

It’s amazing how, when you get pregnant, your first reaction is to read and inwardly absorb as much information as possible, much of which is incomprehensible and terrifying. I’m lucky in that I have a friend who has gone before me – already has a baby, that is – and this is the book she gave me.

Written by five friends who

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From Here to Maternity: One Mother of a Journey by Mel Giedroyc

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Title: From Here to Maternity Author: Mel Giedroyc Genre: Childbirth Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2005 Pages: 266

When I recently discovered I was pregnant (and after I got over the shock), I did what most first time expectant mothers do – ran out and bought lots of pregnancy books. While most of these books are useful, the majority of them scare the living daylights out of me, and my ability to retain information seems to disappear as quickly as I turn

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An Accident Waiting to Happen by Adrian White

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

Title: An Accident Waiting to Happen Author: Adrian White Publisher: Lynskey Books Pages: 286

Originally from Manchester but now based in Galway, Easons buyer Adrian White has made the move from book-selling to writing with his debut novel ‘An Accident Waiting to Happen’. 25-year-old Gregory is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. When his partner Caitlin unexpectedly disappears from their Manchester council flat, leaving him

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Yeats is Dead! by 15 Irish authors

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Title: Yeats Is Dead! Author: edited by Joseph O'Connor Genre: Fiction Publisher: Vintage Books Release Date: Jun 1 2002 Pages: 272

‘Yeats is Dead!’ is a rather bizarre story about a missing James Joyce manuscript and a mysterious formula – Y8s=+! – supposedly for hand cream.

Roddy Doyle starts the ball rolling in a caravan in Dublin with Nestor and Roberts. They are interrogating Reynolds on the instruction of Mrs Bloom and what Bloom says goes, after

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The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

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

Title: The Little Friend Author: Donna Tartt Genre: Brothers Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing UK Release Date: 2005 Pages: 555

Donna Tartt burst upon the literary scene in 1992 with her debut novel The Secret History. Rather than pander to her audience with an immediate follow-up, her second book – The Little Friend – didn’t make it to the bookshops until 2002. It was worth the wait.

The Little Friend is a very different creature to its murderous academic

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Zade by Heather Reyes

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

Title: Zade Author: Heather Reyes Genre: Fiction Publisher: Al Saqi Release Date: 2004 Pages: 176

Zade is a novel set predominately in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, and its cast of characters are mostly familiar, and mostly dead. The narrator is a young woman suddenly catapulted from the joys of young love to the verge of suicide. When her world begins to fall apart, she takes refuge in her favourite Parisian haunt, where she puts a gun in

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Love Child by Linda Kavanagh

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

Title: Love Child Author: Linda Kavanagh Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Poolbeg Press

Linda Kavanagh’s second novel follows the same lines as her excellent debut, Love Hurts.

Joanna Brennan has just set up her own solicitor’s practice. One of her first jobs is to administer the will of her mother’s friend, Agnes, who has just suffered a serious heart attack. Agnes is about to reveal the reasoning behind some of her

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Zarbo – Recipes From a New Zealand Deli by Mark McDonough and Zarbo Deli & Café

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

Title: Zarbo - Recipes From a New Zealand Deli Author: Mark McDonough and Zarbo Deli & Café Genre: Cookery

Mark McDonough is the owner of leading Auckland deli and café Zarbo so, in a way, this cookbook is like a shop window for his own store. But, to McDonough’s credit, there’s little direct plugging of Zarbo merchandise although the logo does appear occasionally in the moody black and white pictures scattered throughout the book.

Sometimes

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Love Hurts by Linda Kavanagh

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Title: Love Hurts Author: Linda Kavanagh Genre: Ireland Publisher: Poolbeg Press Release Date: Jan 1 2004 Pages: 504

The cover of this book is deceptive. It would lead me to believe that this book was just another standard chick lit novel but it isn’t, it’s much more.

Love Hurts tells us the story of Ciara, who has been recently widowed. Her husband and childhood sweetheart Niall dropped dead of a heart attack before his time. Alone, with a daughter

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