Title:
The Dancer
Author:
Christine Dwyer Hickey
Genre:
Dublin
Publisher:
New Island Books
Release Date:
2005-04-01
Pages:
351
Many readers first discovered Christine Dwyer Hickey through her acclaimed novel Tatty. This story of dysfunctional family life, longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize, was not Dwyer Hickey’s first publication. Tatty had been preceded by her Dublin Trilogy – The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker – and these books are now being
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Title:
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author:
David Sedaris
Genre:
Education
Publisher:
Gardners Books
Release Date:
2002-01
Pages:
272
Me Talk Pretty One Day is a collection of 27 anecdotes from American humorist David Sedaris.
Reading Sedaris’ writing is like listening to an old friend recite hilarious episodes from their life. Indeed this is what Sedaris does; he tells stories of his childhood, family, relationships, career and friends, each chapter in this collection relating
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Title:
Basic But Brilliant
Author:
Genevieve McGough
Genre:
Cookery
It’s not often that chefs can manage to simplify techniques so that they are both intelligible and useful to those of us who confine our cooking to the home kitchen but Auckland-based Genevieve McGough has managed it in Brilliant but Basic. In this slim publication she deals with a total of 19 different techniques, teaching formulas for useful
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Title:
At Home At Play
Author:
Penny Oliver
Genre:
Cookery
Penny Oliver, the New Zealand author of Beach, Bach, Boat, Barbeque, has returned to outdoor pursuits for her latest book At Home, At Play. With fabulous photographs of rivers, cooking over outdoor fires, mountains, camping with frost on tents, kayaking and heavy snowfalls, she intersperses her recipes – divided into chapters called Eat Up
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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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