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January 10, 2012

The Swing of Things by Sean O’Reilly

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

Title: The Swing of Things Author: Sean O'Reilly Genre: Fiction, Irish Release Date: Jan 1 2005 Pages: 302

Sean O’Reilly’s first novel, Love and Sleep, made it on to the Irish Times’ list of the 50 Greatest Irish Novels, alongside such luminaries as Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and Patrick Kavanagh, while Curfew and Other Stories, his short story collection, was acclaimed by writers including Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann and Seamus Deane

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Sweet Talking Money by Harry Bingham

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Sweet Talking Money Author: Harry Bingham Genre: Thriller Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 2001 Pages: 436

Cameron is a young scientist who has an idea that could revolutionise medicine, she believes that her research could cure potentially any disease known to man, including AIDS. Once published, she is sure her findings will change the world.

Bryn is an investment banker, all he cares about is money, when he meets Cameron, he sees the potential in her

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Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes

Filed under: Book Reviews,Chick-Lit,Irish — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Sushi for Beginners Author: Marian Keyes Genre: Chick-Lit, Irish Publisher: Penguin Books Release Date: Aug 2 2012 Pages: 563

Three women in Dublin are going through a period of change in their lives. Bitchy, ambitious and beautiful, Lisa has been sent to Dublin to launch a brand new Irish Women’s Magazine, however as she thought her next move was to New York she feels like she is in exile and is none to happy with the alternative. On arrival she decides that her

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Super Cannes by JG Ballard

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

Title: Super-Cannes Author: J. G. Ballard Genre: General Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Release Date: 2001 Pages: 391

It’s 2001 and in the wealthy suburbs of southern France post-millennium tension is sweeping the land. Vast business parks are home to largest corporate organisations and executives adhere strictly to the ethic of ‘work hard, play hard’. Immense buildings and phallic skyscrapers dot the landscape while the population resembles powerful

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My Summer of Love by Helen Cross

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

Title: My Summer of Love Author: Helen Cross Genre: Fiction Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing UK Release Date: 2004 Pages: 248

Helen Cross’ debut is a darkly brooding tale of what happens when two teenage girls join forces one sultry summer in 1980s Yorkshire. Mona, the fifteen-year-old narrator, is a regular drinker and would-be criminal, addicted to fruit machines, obsessed with her weight and determined not to fit in with her sloppy, decidedly non-nuclear family

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The Summer House, Later by Judith Herman

Filed under: Book Reviews,Literature — The Writer @ 12:55 pm

Title: The Summer House, Later Author: Judith Hermann Genre: Literature Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 2001 Pages: 138

Subtitled “A book about the moment before happiness”, ‘The Summer House, Later’ has variously been described as melancholy, elegant, powerful, touching and reflective – it is all of those things and more. A literary sensation in her native Germany, Judith Herman achieves a kind of stillness in her writing that is both

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Strip City by Lily Burana

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Writer @ 12:55 pm

Title: Strip City Author: Lily Burana Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Miramax Books Release Date: Feb 19 2003 Pages: 336

In 1997, Lily Burana met a Wyoming cowboy while travelling cross-country on a journalism assignment. This is a true story and – as sometimes happens in real life – it turns out that opposites attract, the cowboy proposes and Lily accepts. There’s only one problem: Lily is an ex-stripper. It’s not a problem for the cowboy

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The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Filed under: Book Reviews,Thriller — The Writer @ 12:55 pm

Title: The Stepford Wives Author: Ira Levin Genre: Thriller Publisher: Corsair Release Date: 2011 Pages: 139

Essentially a long short story, Ira Levin’s iconic tale of immaculate housewives in an American suburb is one of those books I’d always meant to read. With the release of the Nicole Kidman-fronted film, piles of copies beckoned from the bookshop shelves and it seemed as good a time as any to pick up this cult classic.

Despite its cultural

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Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor

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

Title: Star of the Sea Author: Joseph O'Connor Genre: General Fiction, Irish Publisher: Vintage Books Release Date: 2003 Pages: 410

The Star of the Sea is the ironic name of one of the coffin ships that made it’s way painstakingly slowly from Ireland to America during the time of the famine. Carrying a load of Irish peasants who lived in squalor that was inhumane in the least this novel depicts the journey of those on board.

From the outset we are informed that their has

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Henrietta’s Dream: A Mother’s Remarkable Story of Love, Courage and Hope Against Impossible Odds by Henrietta Spink

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Techie @ 12:55 pm

Title: Henrietta's Dream Author: Henrietta Spink Genre: Biography Publisher: Coronet Release Date: Jan 3 2005 Pages: 290

Henrietta Spink is a normal woman. She has a job and a husband and when she discovers she is pregnant she is thrilled.

When Henry her son was born, she had a vision of him as a young man silently reading in a library. But quickly it became apparent that all was not right with Henry. He didn’t smile or gurgle at this mother, he didn’t cry

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