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January 10, 2012

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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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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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 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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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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Charlottes Way by Catherine Daly

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Charlotte's Way Author: Catherine Daly Genre: Orphans Release Date: 2005-02-01 Pages: 422

Charlotte’s Way tells the story of two sisters, Charlotte and Emily, who were adopted as children and couldn’t be more different.

As orphans both girls have spent their lives searching for security. Charlotte marries young and has three children. Secure in her relationship with husband Donal she really believes that together they can do

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Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Wolves Eat Dogs Author: Martin Cruz Smith Genre: Fiction Publisher: Gallery Books Release Date: 2006-01-03 Pages: 352

There is something profoundly upsetting about reading about any worldwide disaster. The recent tsunami put our all too fragile lives into perspective, but that at least was a natural disaster. The nuclear accident at Chernobyl was a disaster of human making, therefore avoidable, and even more harrowing to read about.

Smith’s fifth novel Wolves

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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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The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: The Wedding Officer Author: Anthony Capella Genre: Fiction Publisher: Sphere Pages: 448

Anthony Capella’s first book, The Food of Love – a modern update of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, with food in place of poetry – was a mouth-watering romp through the cuisine of Italy with a different dish on every page. His second novel, The Wedding Officer, is set in the more sombre and rationed times of World War II but Capella

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True Believer by Nicholas Sparks

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: True Believer Author: Nicholas Sparks Genre: Journalists Publisher: Little, Brown and Compagny Books Release Date: 2008-12 Pages: 322

Although Nicholas Sparks is a familiar name, I had never read anything by him until very recently. Well known for his works of fiction, which include The Notebook, A Walk to Remember and Message in a Bottle, my first encounter with Sparks was actually Three Weeks with my Brother, a memoir that he penned with his brother Micah’s assistance.

True

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