Title:
The History of Love
Author:
Nicole Krauss
Genre:
Authors
Publisher:
Penguin UK
Release Date:
2006
Pages:
252
A book-within-a-book – also called The History of Love – links elderly Jewish man Leo Gursky and fellow New Yorker, 14-year-old Alma Singer.
Having survived World War II in Poland, Leo has a fear of dying unnoticed and is constantly, albeit quietly, seeking attention. Alma, who lost her father when she was seven, is a precocious child
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Title:
In the Company of the Courtesan
Author:
Sarah Dunant
Genre:
Courtesans
Publisher:
Virago Press
Release Date:
Jan 1 2013
Pages:
408
After the success of The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant returns to the realm of historical fiction for In the Company of the Courtesan. Like her earlier book, this is also set in the same time period, the 1500s, and location – Renaissance Italy. The courtesan of the title is the beautiful and celebrated Fiammetta Bianchini and one of the most
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Title:
Martha Gellhorn
Author:
Caroline Moorehead
Genre:
Foreign correspondents
Publisher:
Random House
Release Date:
2004
Pages:
560
An extraordinarily committed war journalist and novelist, Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) also found the time in her wide-ranging and busy life to become Ernest Hemingway’s second of many wives. And it is for that, rather than her own writing, that she is remembered. A truly ambitious woman, this was a fact that she found intolerable while she
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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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