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January 10, 2012

The Accidental Pilgrim by David Moore

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Accidental Pilgrim Author: David Moore Publisher: Hodder Lir Pages: 288

Subtitled ‘Travels with a Celtic Saint’, The Accidental Pilgrim is the story of a 2000 mile bike ride by the author from Bangor in Northern Ireland to Bobbio in northern Italy via France and Switzerland.

The journey follows in the footsteps of the Irish missionary Saint Columbanus who travelled the same route in the 6th century.

After surviving

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Years by La Vyrle Spencer

Filed under: Book Reviews,Historical Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Years Author: LaVyrle Spencer Genre: Fiction Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Release Date: 2013 Pages: 481

Stepping nervously off a train to take up her first job as a teacher in Alamo, North Dakota, eighteen-year-old Linnea gets an unfriendly welcome from Teddy Westgaard. Deciding immediately that she’s the wrong person for the job, Teddy reluctantly brings her back to his house where she is to lodge with his mother and son, and Linnea begins to

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An Accident Waiting to Happen by Adrian White

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

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Walking On Water by Gemma O’Connor

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Walking On Water Author: Gemma O'Connor Genre: Thriller Publisher: Bantam Books Pages: 528

Francis Xavier Recaldo, known as FX to his friends, is the only member of the Garda Siochana working in Passage West. A former senior officer in the Garda headquarters in Dublin, FX packed his bags and headed to the sleepy town on the South-West coast of Ireland after suffering from a heart attack.

FX’s tranquil world is unexpectedly turned

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Wedded Blitz by Tina Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Wedded Blitz Author: Tina Reilly Genre: Beauty operators Publisher: Sphere Release Date: 2006 Pages: 407

On the outside it looks like Jim and Jane have the perfect marriage but, scratch the surface a little, and you see that all is not as it seems. Jim announces that he can’t go on and, leaving Jane to deal with their two children, packs his bag and goes to stay with a friend.

Shortly after Jim’s departure, Jane’s mother lands on her

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