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Memorial: Book Review

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WE ARE NOT IN THE WORLD: BOOK REVIEW

We Are Not In the World Conor O’Callaghan Doubleday €15.99 Guilt-ridden for having abandoned his daughter when his marriage broke up, middle-aged Irishman Paddy embarks on a haulage truck journey through France. The purpose of the journey, ostensibly to deliver a load of condiment sachets...

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James Lawless: The Truth in Fiction

Blog – James Lawless: The Truth in Fiction

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Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

Common Mistakes in Happy Baby Pose — YOGABYCANDACE

If there's one pose that makes people laugh in class, it's happy baby because, well, it's a funny pose. It's also really awesome for opening up the hips so if crow pose is on your radar, this is a pose you're going to want to add to your practice asap.

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The Butchers: Book Review

The Butchers Ruth Gilligan Atlantic Books €15.13 The happenings in this novel occur in an Ireland of 1996 with a rather disjointed fast forward towards the end to a photographic exhibition in New York in 2018 which exhibits a gruesome murder. One needs to buy into the premise of this story to...

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Redhead by the Side of the Road: Book Review

Redhead by the Side of the Road Anne Tyler Chatto & Windus £14.99 Micah Mortimer is an oddball. In his mid-forties with a poor posture he lives alone in a basement flat which offers him free rent in return for his caretaking. Growing up in what he considered a chaotic family household among...

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THE OUTLAW CHRIST: BOOK REVIEW

The Outlaw Christ John F. Deane Columba Books €12.99 This work is based on a series of talks and lectures which John F. Deane delivered as Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Catholic Studies at Loyola University, Chicago in 2006. It must have presented a challenge to the author to decide who to...

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Book Review: Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories by Richard Ford

Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories Richard Ford Bloomsbury Publishing €12.99 This latest collection of short stories by Richard Ford contains nine stories, one of which The Run of Yourself at fifty-eight pages is more like a novella. Some of the stories with their rootless characters appear...

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THE MEMORY POLICE: BOOK REVIEW

The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa Harvill Secker €13.17 This novel which was published in Japanese in 1994, and now in a seamless translation by Stephen Snyder, took twenty five years to reach the English-speaking world. It is still a relevant and sinister story posing questions about who controls...

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Book Review

The Club Takis Würger Grove Press £12.99 In a deceptive start to this novel, translated from German, there is beautiful lyrical writing where young Hans Stickler lives idyllically in a forest in Lower Saxony with his parents. However, the narrative takes a sudden and more dramatic turn, after...