Title:
Ash Wednesday
Author:
Bingham Hawke, Ethan Hawke,
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Release Date:
2002
Pages:
240
Having read and enjoyed Ethan Hawke’s debut novel, The Hottest State, it was, of course, my interest in his published oeuvre that drew me to the reading of his new book, Ash Wednesday, at the Project in Dublin a couple of years ago. Well, that and the power of celebrity. It’s not often that you get an international actor at your questioning
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Title:
The Poisonwood Bible
Author:
Barbara Kingsolver
Genre:
Americans
Release Date:
Apr 11 2013
Pages:
640
The Poisonwood Bible is truly an enthralling book. Nathan Price, a Baptist preacher and evangelist from Southern America, travels to pre-independence Belgian Congo in 1959, with his wife and four daughters in tow, in order to educate the “Tribes of Ham” in the teachings of Jesus.
The story is told through the very different perspectives
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Title:
Around Ireland with a Pan
Author:
Éamonn Ó Catháin
Genre:
Cookery
Irish chef Éamonn Ó Catháin will be a familiar face to anyone who’s ever flicked to TG4 and caught Bia’s Bothar, his food series as Gaeilge. Entertaining and informative, his trip through the foodie highways and byways of Ireland was something that’d been done many times before but Bia’s Bothar was none the less enjoyable
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