Unravelling Oliver – a bestseller and a first novel for Irish author Liz Nugent, I bought this book some time ago and got around to reading it this weekend. I flew through it – it is such a page turner. The shocking start (when Oliver attacks his wife Alice and she ends up in a coma in hospital) certainly got my attention. What kind of ?a man was this [...]
Alice Taylor has written many books and I recently purchased three of them, reviewing two of them here. From Co. Cork, Alice recounts her childhood years in To School Through The Fields, it would be a nostalgic read for people from that era. I know my dad will enjoy the accounts of the threshing machine and neighbours coming to the yard, the planting and [...]
I’d heard from a couple of people that I Am Pilgrim
I picked up The Absolutist in a second hand shop recently for something like 50c. I’ve enjoyed John Boyne’s books up to now, I haven’t read the Mutiny one as yet as leafing through it, I wasn’t sure I’d have the stomach for it. All of his books stay with me and while that probably shows how good they are, I’m a bit of a wimp when it comes [...]
I’ve been re-reading the James Herriot series over the last couple of weeks. I first read them as a teenager, and still have almost all of the dogeared copies. I picked up an omnibus of 6 of the books in a second hand shop a while ago, just couldn’t resist it. It must be 3o years since I last read James Herriot but I must confess to occasionally recording All Creatures Great and Small when it was on TG4 every [...]
