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January 10, 2012

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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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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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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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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Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Virginia Woolf Author: Nigel Nicolson Genre: Biography Release Date: 2001 Pages: 165

If you’re put off by the size of Hermione Lee’s tome on Virginia Woolf’s life, Nigel Nicolson’s 160 page offering is far more digestible. He is the nephew of Vita Sackville-West, a former lover of Woolf’s and offers lots of personal insight into the life of one of best female writers of the twentieth century. Very informative

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Around Ireland with a Pan by Éamonn Ó Catháin

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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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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Wishful Thinking by Melissa Hill

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Wishful Thinking Author: Melissa Hill Genre: Chick-lit, Irish Publisher: Hodder

Rosie Mitchell is finally getting used to life without her late husband Martin. However, her two grown-up children are proving to be just a little bit selfish. So far Rosie has given in to their every request – but will it bring her happiness?

Louise Patterson is only 24, but she has already been through the mill. Determined to live life to

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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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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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Pack up the Moon by Anna McPartlin

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Pack Up the Moon Author: Anna McPartlin Genre: Bereavement Publisher: Penguin Ireland Release Date: Jun 4 2009 Pages: 384

Emma and her friends have an enviable life. Young, successful and happy, the future is alive with possibilities. When Richard inherits some money they are only too happy to help him celebrate, but tragedy strikes and the lives that they once knew and enjoyed are over for good.

Plunged into despair, Emma’s life shrinks until all it consists of

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Lovers’ Hollow by Orna Ross

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Lovers' Hollow Author: Orna Ross, Áine McCarthy, Genre: Chick-lit Release Date: 2006 Pages: 667

The first thing you notice about Lovers’ Hollow is its weight – at 668 pages this book is not for the weak limbed! However, if you do manage to balance the book and start turning the pages, you will find a riveting story hidden between the covers.

Jo Devereux returns to Wexford for her mother’s funeral with mixed feelings; she hasn’t

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