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The Island Beneath the Sea
‘Anyone who hasn’t already been dazzled by Isabel Allende’s earlier mastery will pick up Island Beneath the Sea and discover an entertaining drama rich… Continue reading | 1 Comment
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Audio Book Tops Adult Audio Book List
Stieg Larsson‘s very popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has topped the adult fiction audiobook… Continue reading
After an excellent year for Irish crime writing, female authors ought to be the deadlier of the species.
AST year was something of an annus mirabilis for Irish crime writing, with superb novels on offer from John Connolly, Declan Hughes, Gene Kerrigan, Stuart Neville, Adrian McKinty and Brian McGilloway, among others. It was also a year, as… Continue reading
Thursday saw the long awaited release of New Moon; the second film adaption of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series.
While fans generally won’t be let down, does the movie live up to all the monumental hype? Does it do the book justice?
Based on 162 reviews collected by the film aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, New Moon has received a “Rotten” rating of 30%, with a weighted average score of 4.8 out of 10.
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“Perhaps there can be no perfection. Only levels of imperfection”
Peter Goldsworthy’s novel Maestro is a wistfully beautiful bildungsroman that is set in Darwin, Australia from 1967 to 1977.
Maestro was chosen for the “One town – One book” project, is part of the HSC curriculum, and in 2003 it appeared at #22 on the Australian… Continue reading
With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.
Paul has walked off into… Continue reading