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- Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:54 pm
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- Topic: Hannibal: Fields of Blood by Ben Kane- July 2013
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Hannibal: Fields of Blood by Ben Kane- July 2013
It's time for historical fiction, a genre I have neglected in this club! And no better novel than Ben Kane's latest Sunday Times bestseller Fields of Blood set in ancient Rome. The fields of Cannae provide the setting for one of the bloodiest battles in history. But who will triumph? Hannibal and hi...
- Fri May 31, 2013 11:50 am
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- Topic: The Villa by Rosanna Ley
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The Villa by Rosanna Ley
With all this beautiful sunshine this month's book is unashamedly a holiday read and a total escape. Described by Kate Furnivall, author of The White Pearl as "..The perfect summer read' When Tess Angel receives a solicitor's letter inviting her to claim her inheritance - the Villa Sirena, perched o...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:52 pm
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- Topic: City of Bohane by Kevin Barry - May 2013
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City of Bohane by Kevin Barry - May 2013
This is the choice for this month's morning book club in Scariff Public Library. I chose it for two reasons, one because I heard Kevin Barry on the radio and he sounded so nice and made me laugh and two because it it short-listed for the 2013 IMPAC award, the only Irish writer on the list! The once-...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:36 pm
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- Topic: Vanilla Beans & Brodo by Isabella Dusi - April 2013
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Vanilla Beans & Brodo by Isabella Dusi - April 2013
I feel we need an injection of sunshine and no better book than this vivid account of life in Montalcino, an intriguing hilltop medieval village in southern Tuscany! From Library Journal This isn't just another "we moved to a foreign country for a better quality of life" book. Instead, it is a leisu...
- Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:01 pm
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- Topic: The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen - March 2013
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The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen - March 2013
This book struck me as an unusual and wholly original debut. It's written from the point of view of ten-year old girl Judith McPherson. Judith and her father don’t have much—their house is full of dusty relics, reminders of the mother she’s never known. But Judith sees the world with the clear Eyes ...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 8:00 pm
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- Topic: White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader - February 2013
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White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader - February 2013
How time is flying past. It's February's book time already and this time I thought we should go on an odyssey, 'an odyssey into the frozen heart of a dying continent, sparkling with vignettes if human endurance.' (The Times). I've always loved travel literature and love heading off on adventures wit...
- Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:17 pm
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- Topic: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - January 2013
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - January 2013
I thought we'd start the year with a well-loved classic Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbevilles. I submerged myself in the world of Hardy for a while and images from this book stay with me to this day. The characters and landscapes are so vivid and intertwined, you will feel what the characters feel, you w...
- Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:00 pm
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- Topic: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain - December 2012
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The Paris Wife by Paula McLain - December 2012
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happ...
- Tue Nov 06, 2012 5:33 pm
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- Topic: Far to Go by Alison Pick - November 2012
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Far to Go by Alison Pick - November 2012
Longlisted for the 2011 MAN BOOKER PRIZE for Fiction, FAR TO GO is a powerful and profoundly moving story about one family's epic journey to flee the Nazi occupation of their homeland in 1939, and above all to save the life of a six-year-old boy. Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are affluent, secular Jews,...
- Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:33 pm
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- Topic: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson - October 2012
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The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson - October 2012
What if society wasn’t fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, incl...
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 4:55 pm
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- Topic: Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale - September 2012
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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale - September 2012
Who wouldn’t want to read the private thoughts of a Victorian Lady and no ordinary Victorian lady at that. Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale instantly grabbed me and I must say I’ve never exclaimed out loud so much while reading a book! For instance w...
- Wed Aug 01, 2012 12:47 pm
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- Topic: Wild Coast by John Gimlette - August 2012
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Wild Coast by John Gimlette - August 2012
It is the photos in this book that sell it to me- a giant otter and the conservationist Diane McTurk; a very proud looking African man with a tooth of some wild animal, (a jaguar perhaps?) on a string around his neck. I want to know more about this inaccessible country and more about the descendants...
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 12:30 pm
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- Topic: Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn - July 2012
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Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn - July 2012
I had a look at the returns trolley to see if there was anything interesting and straight away I found Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn and turning to the back cover discovered she has written Daisy Bates in the Desert. I read that non-fiction book some years ago and loved the way it was written and ...
- Thu May 31, 2012 5:36 pm
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- Topic: The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam - June 2012
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The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam - June 2012
"1971 December Eight days after the end of the war, Sohail Haque stands in a field of dying mustard. The petals of the mustard flower, dried to dust, tickle his nose and remind him of the scent of meat, which he has not tasted in several months." This is the opening of this month's book The Good Mus...
- Wed May 02, 2012 1:57 pm
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- Topic: Landed A Novel by Tim Pears - May 2012
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Landed A Novel by Tim Pears - May 2012
A borrower returned this book to the library today and said it was really good so I'm sharing it with you. Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell’s sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his grandparents’ small farm in th...