Monthly Archives: January 2010

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My Book Recommendation – The Happiness Project

 
 
Author:  Gretchen Rubin

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins; 1 edition (15 Jan 2010)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0061583251

ISBN-13: 978-0061583254

Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16 x 3.2 cm

Product Description

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany. One rainy afternoon on a city bus, she realized that she wasn’t as happy as she could be. In danger of wasting her days – always yearning for something more, waiting for problems to miraculously solve themselves – she realized her life wasn’t going to change unless she did something about it. On January 1, she embarked on her Happiness Project, and each month she pursued a different set of resolutions: to get more sleep, quit nagging her husband, sing in the morning to her two young daughters, start a blog, imitate a spiritual master, keep a one-sentence journal. She immersed herself in everything from classical philosophy to contemporary psychology to see what worked for her-and what didn’t. Illuminating yet entertaining, profound yet compulsively readable, “The Happiness Project” is one of the most thoughtful and prescriptive works on happiness to have emerged from the recent explosion of interest in the subject. Filled with practical advice, sharp insight, charm, and humour, her story will inspire readers to navigate their own paths to happiness.

About the Author

Gretchen Rubin is the author of several books, including the bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK. Rubin began her career in law, and she was clerking for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized that she really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters.

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My Book Recommendation – Changing My Mind

 
 
Author: Zadie Smith

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton (26 Nov 2009)

ISBN-10: 0241142954

ISBN-13: 978-0241142950

Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16 x 3 cm

Product Description

How did George Eliot’s love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does ‘soulful’ mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made? Split into five sections – ‘Reading’, ‘Being’, ‘Seeing’, ‘Feeling’ and ‘Remembering’ – Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays – some published here for the first time – reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing of Obama, Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani or David Foster Wallace, she brings a practitioner’s care to the art of criticism, with a style as sympathetic as it is insightful. Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent and funny – a gift to readers and writers both. Within its covers an essay is more than a column of opinions: it’s a space in which to think freely.

About the Author

Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975 and still lives in the area. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty, all of which are published by Penguin.
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My Favourite Book by Clive Cussler Book 2 – Arctic Drift

 
 
Author:  Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Paperback: 592 pages

Publisher: Penguin (1 Oct 2009)

ISBN-10: 0141038918

ISBN-13: 978-0141038919

Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 4 cm

Product Description

In a Norwegian glacier during the Second World War a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery – the most legendary ship of all time . . . Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon – a top-secret, state-of-the-art military vessel disguised as a heap of junk – reap the terrible rewards of this find. In the Persian Gulf they encounter a cruise ship full of dead and dying. As Cabrillo attempts a rescue, the stricken liner erupts into a fireball. Cabrillo escapes with his life, and one survivor. When he decides to probe deeper into this mystery, he finds a powerful cult obsessed with the end of the world. It is a discovery that sees the Oregon and her crew racing against time to prevent a sinister madman from using the secrets of the past to destroy the future . . . Plague Ship is a high-stakes, high-seas adventure you won’t be able to put down.

About the Author

Clive Cussler is the author of many bestsellers, including, most recently, The Navigator, Skeleton Coast, The Chase and Arctic Drift. He lives in Arizona. Jack Du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, most recently, Havoc, and is the co-author with Clive Cussler of the Oregon Files novels Dark Watch and Skeleton Coast.
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Clive Cussler Book 1 – Spartan Gold

 
 
Author: Clive Cussler

Hardcover: 416 pages

Publisher: Michael Joseph (7 Jan 2010)

ISBN-10: 0718155300

ISBN-13: 978-0718155308

Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm

Product Description

Thousands of years ago, the mighty Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as a tribute to his glory. In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars. Unable to transport them, Napoleon created an inscrutable map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon dies, the bottles disappear – and the gold pillars are lost once again. Treasure-hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from NapoleonÂ’s ‘lost cellar’. Fascinated, the Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the bottle theyÂ’ve just found. Not for the wine. He wants what the bottle may lead to. For he is Hadeon Bondaruk – a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire – and he claims descent from King Xerxes himself. And the treasure will be his, no matter what . . .

About the Author

Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of bestselling novels, including twenty Dirk Pitt® novels, eight NUMA® Files adventures, and six Oregon Files books. He has written three works of non fiction and a historical adventure series, which began with The Chase. He lives in Arizona. http://www.clivecussler.co.uk Grant Blackwood, US Navy veteran and author of the Briggs Tanner series, lives in Colorado.
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My Book Recommendation – The Echo Maker

 
 
Author:  Richard Powers

Paperback: 576 pages

Publisher: Vintage (7 Feb 2008)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0099506025

ISBN-13: 978-0099506027

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 4 cm 

Product Description

On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter’s truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman – who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister – is really an identical impostor. Shattered by her brother’s refusal to recognise her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case studies describing the infinitely bizarre worlds of brain disorder. Weber recognises Mark as a very unusual case of Capgras syndrome and is keen to investigate. But what he discovers in Mark begins to undermine even his own sense of self. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened on the night of his accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition. Set against the spectacular spring migrations of American Sandhill cranes, “The Echo Maker” is a profound and riveting novel that explores how memory, instinct and relationships make us who we are.

About the Author

Richard Powers is the author of nine novels, including Galatea 2.2 and The Gold Bug Variations, both of which were nominated for the US National Book Critics Circle Award, Operation Wandering Soul, which was nominated for the US National Book Award for Fiction, Plowing the Dark, Gain, and most recently, The Time of Our Singing, winner of the WH Smith Literary Award. He lives in Illinois.
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Munster, Ireland Top 10 Booksales -Jan 20th 2010

Top 10 Books

1. Going Home by Colm Keane

2. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

3. Let The Great World Spin by Colum Mc Cann

4. The Choice by Susan Lewis

5. O Hara Affair by Kate Thompson

6. Girl With The Green Tattoo by Steig Larrson

7. The Journey by Alice Taylor

8. Silent Crossing by Ellen Mc Carthy

9. Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest bt Steig Larrson

10. Guinness World Records 2010

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My Favourite Tom Clancy Book 2 – Splinter Cell

 
 
Authors:  David Michaels and Tom Clancy

Paperback: 416 pages

Publisher: Berkley (30 Nov 2005)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0425201686

ISBN-13: 978-0425201688

Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.2 x 2.8 cm

Product Description

It’s not just a game anymore-read the explosive new book series based on the video game Splinter Cell(tm).

In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the United States, the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of intelligence-gathering techniques. The top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon.

Its existence denied by the US government, Third Echelon deploys a lone field operative. He is sharp, invisible, and deadly. He has the right to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect American freedoms. His name is Sam Fisher. He is a Splinter Cell(tm). Sam Fisher works alone. But fights for us all.

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My Favourite Tom Clancy Book 1 – The Hunt For Red October

 
 
Author:  Tom Clancy

Paperback: 560 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (17 Nov 1988)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0006172768

ISBN-13: 978-0006172765

Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 11 x 3.8 cm

Product Description

The runaway international No 1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy’s spectacular career and introduced his acclaimed hero, Jack Ryan, in the ultimate submarine adventure — now reissued with a new cover. Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia’s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. With all-out war only seconds away, the superpowers race across the ocean on the most desperate mission of a lifetime. The most incredible chase in history is on! The Hunt for Red October! the classic story of a spellbinding battle of nerves, above and below the waves, unrivalled in its authenticity and breath-stopping suspense.

About the Author

Since the publication of The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy has established an unrivalled position as the world’s leading thriller writer, with a string of million-selling novels and three major Hollywood
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My Book Recommendation – The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

 
 
Author:  Ali Shaw

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: Atlantic Books; First Edition; 1st printing. edition (1 May 2009)

ISBN-10: 1843549182

ISBN-13: 978-1843549185

Product Dimensions: 21 x 15.4 x 3.2 cm

Product Description

Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St Hauda’s Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around icy bogland; albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods; jellyfish glow in the ocean’s depths…And Ida MacLaird is slowly turning into glass. A mysterious and frightening alchemical metamorphosis has befallen Ida Maclaird – she is slowly turning into glass, from the feet up. She returns to St Hauda’s Land, where she believes the glass first took hold, in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner, who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart, and they begin to fall in love…What they need most is time – and time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? “The Girl with Glass Feet” is a dazzlingly imaginative and gripping first novel, a love story to treasure.

About the Author

Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has since worked as a bookseller and at Oxford’s Bodleian Library. He is currently writing his second novel.
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Cork Wins Trophies at BT Scientist

Cork Wins Trophies At BT Science Exhibition by Annette J Dunlea

in Carrigdhoun Newspaper 30th Jan 2010 p.19

BT recently hosted it’s 10th Young Scientist Awards. It attracted 37,000 visitors and over 1,588 projects from the 32 counties. BT announced it evolved its exhibition in line with the pressing issues the country faces including introducing a new business element that will work to bridge the gap between education and business. It showed how the new discoveries pioneered at the exhibition can be translated into commercial products and services. It’s slogan was “driven by innovation delivered by BT”. The exhibition was presented by Aidan Power and Aoibheann Ni Shuilleabhain and it ran from Jan 12-16th 2010. There were 36 individual and group prizes awarded. Out of the 1,588 projects only 520 were deemed good enough to go through to the final judging process at the exhibition. Overall 1st prize went to Cork student Richard O Shea from Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal , Blarney, Co.Cork, for his project called biomass fuel stove for developing countries. The runner up individual prize was awarded to Hannah Eastwood from Loreto College Coleraine Co.Derry for her project entitled: ” Green Rust For Good Gall”. Best group prize was taken by Paul Mc Keever and Bryan Murphy from The Christian Brothers in Co.Meath for their project “Spec Detector”. While the group runner up project winner went to Leona Chow and Moillieanne Gallagher from Alexandra College Co.Down. It was called “In vitro study of how various amounts of alcohol and caffeine affect protein degradation by the stomach enzyme pepsin. Finally, a group of four girls and two boys of 13 year olds from our local Crosshaven school Colaiste Muire won first prize in biological and ecological sciences category. Overall winner Richard O Shea will go on to represent Ireland at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists, we wish him the best of luck.

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My Favourite Roddy Doyle Book 2: The Barrytown Trilogy (The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van)

 
 
Author:  Roddy Doyle

Paperback: 633 pages

Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (11 Oct 1993)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0749397365

ISBN-13: 978-0749397364

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3.8 cm

Product Description

Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle’s trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. “The Commitments”, “The Snapper” and “The Van”, which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.
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My Favourite Roddy Doyle Book 1: Ha Ha Ha

 
 
Author:  Roddy Doyle
 
Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (1 Jun 1994)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0749397357

ISBN-13: 978-0749397357

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm

Product Description

Roddy Doyle’s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha” is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

About the Author

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eight acclaimed novels and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

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My Book Recommendation – The Paris Vendetta

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Title: The Paris Vendetta 

Author:  Steve Berry

Paperback: 432 pages

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (15 April 2010)

ISBN-10: 0340977418

ISBN-13: 978-0340977415

Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 3.4 cm

Product Description

12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone’s closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble – and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are on Malone’s doorstep.

Thorvaldsen has been tracking a shadowy group called the Paris Club. Not only does he believe that they are about to trigger a global financial meltdown, but also that one of the club’s members murdered his son, Cai, two years ago. Thorvaldsen won’t rest until he has avenged his boy’s death.

Dragged into his friend’s schemes and secretly under pressure from the US government to stop both Thorvaldsen and the Paris Club, Malone soon discovers that the key to defeating the conspiracy and saving his friend’s life – and his own – lies in the past, and an astounding treasure that Napoleon took to his grave. (20080504)

About the Author

Steve Berry lives on the coast in Georgia, USA, with his wife and daughter. He is a lawyer who has travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe, and Russia and has so far published seven international thrillers, including THE VENETIAN BETRAYAL and THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT. His most recent four books have all been New York Times and international bestsellers, and his books have been published in 42 countries and translated into 38 languages. Visit his website at www.steveberry.org.
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My Favourite Colm Toibin Book: 2 – The Heather Blazing

Author:  Colm Toibin

Paperback: 9999 pages

Publisher: Picador; 7 edition (7 Mar 2008)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0330321250

ISBN-13: 978-0330321259

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 1.8 cm

Product Description

Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Tóibín reconstructs the history of Eamon’s relationships – with his father, his first ‘girl’, his wife and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern’s and he writes about Eamon’s affection for the Irish coast with such painterly skill that the land itself becomes a character.

‘The novel is narrated dispassionately and with deceptive simplicity, moving between the public figure of the judge in his study and the terrible deaths of childhood . . . It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed’ Linda Grant, Independent on Sunday

‘Superbly accomplished. Exquisitely crafted . . . a small triumph of intensity’ Observer

‘A quiet but stunning Irish novel, which seems to derive its clear and affecting style in part from the staunch personality of its protagonist’ New Yorker

About the Author

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of five novels, most recently The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona and The Sign of the Cross. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.

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My Favourite Colm Toibin Book 1 – The Master

 
Title: The Master
 
Author:  Colm Toibin

Paperback: 200 pages

Publisher: Picador (21 Jan 2005)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0330485660

ISBN-13: 978-0330485661

Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm

Product Description

In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost.

In The Master Colm Tóibín captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.

About the Author

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of four other novels, The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona and The Sign of the Cross. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.

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My Book Recommendation – Twenties Girl

 
 
Author:  Sophie Kinsella

Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Black Swan (21 Jan 2010)

ISBN-10: 0552774367

ISBN-13: 978-0552774369

Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 3.4 cm

Product Description

Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don’t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara’s great aunt Sadie – in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl – has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can’t rest without. Lara’s got enough problems of her own. Her start-up company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, and she’s just been dumped by the love of her life. But as Lara spends time with Sadie, life becomes more glamorous and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Could Sadie’s ghost be the answer to Lara’s problems and can two girls from different times end up learning something special from each other?

About the Author

Sophie Kinsella is a writer and fomer financial journalist. She is the international bestselling author of the hugely popular Shopaholic novels as well as the number one bestsellers Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess and Remember Me? Confessions of a Shopaholic, the blockbuster Hollywood movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, is based on Sophie Kinsella’s novel The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic. She lives in London with her husband and children.
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My Favourite Catherine Cookson Book 2 – Pure As Lily

 
 
Author:  Catherine Cookson

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Corgi Books (5 May 2008)

Language English

ISBN-10: 055215671X

ISBN-13: 978-0552156714

Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.6 x 3.4 cm

Product Description

Mary Walton is the apple of her father’s eye; his only comfort during the dark years of the Depression when he is faced with both unemployment and a nagging, ambitious wife. His only hope is that Mary will one day find a way to escape the grinding poverty of the Tyneside slums. But when a secret is revealed these dreams are shattered and the lives of the Walton family change forever…Spanning Mary’s life from the 1930′s to the 1970′s, “Pure as the Lily” is a spellbinding, unforgettable tale from one of Britain’s most cherished novelists.

About the Author

Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer – her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 – her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many bestselling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.
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My Favourite Catherine Cookson Book 1 : Feathers in the Fire

Title: Feathers in the Fire

Author:  Catherine Cookson

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

Publisher: Corgi Books (14 Jul 2008)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0552156779

ISBN-13: 978-0552156776

Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.6 x 3.4 cm

Product Description

Davie Armstrong watches as his master, Angus McBain, publicly thrashes young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who had made her pregnant. And yet, only an hour later, Davie sees the two of them alone in the malthouse, and learns that the child is McBain’s. In a whirl of disbelieving rage, he overhears them plotting to let him, Davie, take the blame and marry Molly. Meanwhile, the master’s wife is also pregnant. And a few months later the birth of the McBain’s son Amos unleashes violence and tragedy at the farm. Born with no legs and emotionally crippled, Amos will learn to wield power of frightening intensity over everyone around him.

About the Author

Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer – her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 – her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many bestselling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

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My Book Recommendation : Tree of Smoke

 
 
Author:  Denis Johnson

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Picador (1 Aug 2008)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0330449214

ISBN-13: 978-0330449212

Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4 cm

Product Description

Tree of Smoke – the name given to a ‘psy op’ that might or might not be hypothetical and might or might not be officially sanctioned – is Denis Johnson’s most gripping, visionary and ambitious work to date. Set in south-east Asia and the US, and spanning two decades, it ostensibly tells the story of Skip Sands, a CIA spy who may or may not be engaged in psychological operations against the Viet Cong — but also takes the reader on a surreal yet vivid journey, dipping in and out of characters’ lives to reveal fundamental truths at the heart of the human condition.

‘A Catch-22 for our times’ Alan Warner, Books of the Year, Observer

‘The God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humour like Denis Johnson’s’ Jonathan Franzen

‘An epic of drenched sensuality and absurdly chewable dialogue, as though Don DeLillo and Joseph Heller had collaborated on a Vietnam war novel’ Steven Poole, Books of the Year, New Statesman

About the Author

Denis Johnson is the author of several novels, including Already Dead (published by Picador), Resuscitation of a Hanged Man, Fiskadoro, The Stars at Noon, Angels and The Name of the World, plus a collection of short stories, Jesus’ Son, and four volumes of poetry. He lives in northern Idaho.

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