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3rd Degree by James Patterson
30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey
A Carol for the Dead by Patrick Dunne
Acid Row by Minette Walters
Accidental Pilgrim (The) by David Moore
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English by Terence Patrick Dolan
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
Affair (The) by Anna Dillon
After Many a Summer by Aldous Huxley
A Hundred and One Days by Åsne Seierstad
A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones
A Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse
A Life of Her Own by Dee Cunningham
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
All Shook Up by Catherine Daly
Alphabet Sisters (The) by Monica McInerney
Amazing Grace by Clare Dowling
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Among Women Only by Cesare Pavese
A Moth at the Glass by Mogue Doyle
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
A Mother's Gift by Britney and Lynne Spears
An Accident Waiting to Happen by Adrian White
An Evening Of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
Anyone But Him by Sheila O'Flanagan
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Answers (The) by Neil Somerville
A Painted House by John Grisham
A Paradiso Year: Autumn and Winter Cooking by Denis Cotter
Around Ireland with a Pan by Éamonn Ó Catháin
Art of Falling Apart (The) by Mark Dawson
Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
A Small Part of Me by Noëlle Harrison
A Taste For It by Monica McInerney
A Taste of West Cork
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton
At Home, At Play by Penny Oliver
Atlas of Cork City
At Ruby's by Frank Delaney
Author, Author by David Lodge
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
Awakening (The) by Kate Chopin
A Widow For One Year by John Irving
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
Bad Boy by Olivia Goldsmith
Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
Beatrice by Noëlle Harrison
Beautiful Dreamer by Liz Ryan
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Bel-Ami by Guy De Maupassant
Bell Jar (The) by Sylvia Plath
Best Recipes for Absolutely Everything by Anne Willan
Better Than This by Stuart Harrison
Bill's Open Kitchen by Bill Grange
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Birth of Venus (The) by Sarah Dunant
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Black Dahlia (The) by James Ellroy
Body Artist (The) by Don DeLillo
Bone People (The) by Keri Hulme
Bones in Attic (The) by Robert Barnard
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Book of Evidence (The) by John Banville
Bookseller of Kabul (The) by Åsne Seierstad
Boxer's Heart (The) by Kate Sekules
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants 2006
The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay 2006
Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
Brilliant But Basic by Genevieve McGough
Brokeback Mountain by E. Annie Proulx
Broker (The) by John Grisham
Bronze Horseman (The) by Paullina Simons
Burning Girl (The) by Mark Billingham
Call Me Elizabeth by Dawn Annandale
Captain with Whiskers (The) by Benedict Kiely
Carnevale by MR Lovric
Changeling by Melissa Diem
Child Buyer (The) by John Hersey
Children of Eve by Deirdre Purcell
Classic After-dinner Sports Tales Edited by Jonathan Rice
Collins Complete British Hit Albums by Graham Betts
Colour (The) by Rose Tremain
Comfort Food: Eating for Pleasure by Maxine Clark
Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
Company of Three by Jennifer MacCann
Constant Gardener (The) by Le Carre
Cooking for Family and Friends by Neven Maguire
Cooking for Mr Latte by Amanda Hesser
Creation Records Story (The) by David Cavanagh
Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
Curious Incident of Dog in Night-Time (The) by Mark Haddon
Cutting the Night in Two by Irish Women Writers
Dancer (The) by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Dancers of Fortune by Lee Dunne
Dangerous Muse by Nancy Schoenberger
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden
Da Vinci Code (The) by Dan Brown
Dead Famous by Ben Elton
Deadlier than the Male by David M Kiely
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Devil and Miss Prym (The) by Paulo Coelho
Diceman (The) by Luke Rhinehart
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Diviners (The) by Rick Moody
Divine Secrets of Ya Ya Sisterhood (The) by Rebecca Wells
Diving Bell and Butterfly (The) by Jean Dominique Bauby
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
Double Wedding by Patricia Scanlan
Dove on the Waters by Maurice Shadbolt
Drink & Dream Teahouse (The) by Justin Hill
Dream Brother by David Browne
Dr Mukti and other tales of woe, by Will Self
Doctor Salt by Gerard Donovan
Documentary Makers (The) by David A Goldsmith
Eager to Please by Julie Parsons
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Easy Entertaining by Darina Allen
Eating Peaches by Tara Heavey
Eating with Angels by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Echo Burning by Lee Child
Electric Michelangelo (The) by Sarah Hall
Element Of Fire (The) by Brendan Graham
Elvis, Jesus and Me, by Emer McCourt
Embers by Sandor Marai
Empress of Ireland (The) by Christopher Robbins
Enchanted Ireland, Richard Turpin and Paul Lay
Ending up by Kingsley Amis
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Entertaining Ambrose by Deirdre Purcell
Everyone's Got a Bono Story By Anne-Marie O'Connor
Every Good Woman Deserves A Lover by Diana Appleyard
Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country by Gillian Slovo
Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories
Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios (The) by Yann Martel
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
False Intentions by Arlene Hunt
Family Baggage by Monica McInerney
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fat Ladies Club (The)
Feast: Food That Celebrates Life by Nigella Lawson
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
Fillums by Hugh Leonard
Firebird by Michael Asher
First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
Five People You Meet in Heaven (The) by Mitch Albom
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
Fresh and Wild Cookbook by Ysanne Spevack
Frida, The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrara
From Claire to Here by Judi Curtin
From Here to Maternity by Mel Giedroyc
Georgina Campbell's Ireland: The Best of The Best
Gertrude by Hermann Hesse
Gigi and the Cat by Colette
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Girls of Slender Means (The) by Muriel Spark
Glass Castle (The) by Jeannette Walls
Going Down by Kate Thompson
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth/option>
Grace and Truth by Jennifer Johnston
Gram Parsons: God's Own Singer by Jason Walker
Grass is Singing (The) by Doris Lessing
Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
Group (The) by Mary McCarthy
Halliwell's Film, Video and DVD Guide
Handbag Beauty Bible by Josephine Fairley & Sarah Stacey
Heaven Lies About Us by Eugene McCabe
Henrietta's Dream by Henrietta Spink
History of Love (The) by Nicole Krauss
Hollow Heart (The) by Martina Devlin
Hotel Las Flores by Kate McCabe
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
How the Light Gets In by MJ Hyland
How to Cook Absolutely Everything by Anne Willan
How to Cook Better by Shaun Hill
How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
How Was if For You? by Carmen Reid
Hunter's Moon by Alexandra Connor
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Ice Road by Gillian Slovo
I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne
I'm Irish: Get Me Out of Here! by Donal Ruane
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Innocent by Harlan Coben
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
In the Cage by Henry James
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney
Irish Cooking: Over 100 Traditional Recipes by Clare Connery
Irish Examiner:100 Years of News Edited by Des O'Driscoll
Irish Film Censorship by Kevin Rockett
It Started with a Wish by Kathy Rodgers
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
Jane Austen Book Club (The) by Karen Joy Fowler
Jenny Bristow: A Taste of Sunshine
JK Rowling by Marc Shapiro
Judith Cullen's Cookery Classes
Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag
King Scum: The Life & Crimes of Tony Felloni by Paul Reynolds
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Kite Runner (The) by Khaled Hosseini
La Cucina: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Lily Prior
Last Chance to Eat by Gina Mallet
Last Juror (The) by John Grisham
Last King of Scotland (The) by Giles Foden
Last Time They Met (The) by Anita Shreve
Learning to Fly by Mary Hosty
Les Halles Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain
Les Liaisons Culinaires by Andreas Staïkos
Leviathan by Paul Auster
Life Mask by Emma Donoghue
Lighthouse (The) by PD James
Like Nowhere Else by Denyse Woods
Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
Little Friend (The) by Donna Tartt
Lives of the Muses (The) by Francine Prose
Living the Dream by Kate Thompson
Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook (The) by Maurice Riverso
Love Child by Linda Kavanagh
Love Hurts by Linda Kavanagh
Lovely Bones (The) by Alice Sebold
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Lovers' Hollow by Orna Ross
Lover (The) by Marguerite Duras
Loving Che by Ana Menendez
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Map of Love (The) by Ahdaf Soueif
Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead
Martyn Turner's Greatest Hits by Martyn Turner
Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier
Master (The) by Colm Tóibín
Mediterranean Cook by Paul Gayler
Men without Women by Ernest Hemingway
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Messiah (The) by Boris Starling
Monday's Warriors by Maurice Shadbolt
Money by Martin Amis
Money Doctor (The) by John Lowe
Moorish by Greg and Lucy Malouf
Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mr Wrong by Jaye Carroll
Murder Exchange (The) by Simon Kernick
Murder of Roger Ackroyd (The) by Agatha Christie
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain
My Friend Leonard by James Frey
My Summer of Love by Helen Cross
My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never No More by Maura Laverty
Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down by Nicey and Wifey
Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson
Night Angels by Danuta Reah
Night Watch (The) by Sarah Waters
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
Nocturnes by John Connolly
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
No Logo by Naomi Klein
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
Not Just For Christmas by Roddy Doyle
Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence
Not What You Think by Melissa Hill
Old School by Tobias Wolff
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
One Day in my Life by Bobby Sands
One For My Baby by Tony Parsons
One More Chance by Liz Ryan
Onion Girl (The) by Tina O'Reilly
Only Say the Word by Niall Williams
Other Boleyn Girl (The) by Philippa Gregory
Other People's Rules by Julia Hamilton
Other Side of Story (The) by Marian Keyes
Out of Me by Fiona Shaw
Out of the Blue by Isabel Wolff
Outsiders (The) by S E Hinton
Pack up the Moon by Anna McPartlin
Paris, France: Personal Recollections by Gertrude Stein
Passage by Connie Willis
Passing Under Heaven by Justin Hill
Paulo Coelho, Confessions of a Pilgrim by Juan Arias
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Perish Twice by Robert B Parker
Pieces of Me by Róisín Ingle
Pinhead Duffy by Helena Close
Poisonwood Bible (The) by Barbara Kingsolver
Poor Mouth (The) by Flann O'Brien
Portable Creative Writing Workshop (The) by Pat Boran
Portrait In Sepia by Isabel Allende
Powerbook (The) by Jeanette Winterson
Pretending by Caroline Williams
Pure Heart Enlightened Mind by Maura 'Soshin' O'Halloran
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Pursuit by Brian Gallagher
Pursuit of Love (The) by Nancy Mitford
Quiet Quarter (The), anthology of New Irish Writing
Rachel's Favourite Food for Friends by Rachel Allen
Rage by Jonathan Kellerman
Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Kate Kerrigan
Red Dog by Louis de Berniéres
Redeeming Hope by Anna O'Malley
Red Letter Day by Colette Caddle
Red Pony (The) by John Steinbeck
Red Tent (The) by Anita Diamant
Remember Me by Lesley Pearse
Restaurant (The): Food and Wine from the TV Series
Roast Figs, Sugar Snow by Diana Henry
Robbers by Christopher Cook
Rum Diary (The) by Hunter S Thompson
Running for the Hills: A Family Story by Horatio Clare
Said and Done by Annie Sparrow
Sarah by JT LeRoy
Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly
Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
Schopenhauer's Telescope by Gerard Donovan
Sea (The) by John Banville
Sea Sea (The) by Iris Murdoch
Second Son by Christy Kenneally
Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
Sexing the Cherry, by Jeanette Winterson
Sex, Lies and Fairytales by Kate Thompson
Sexual Life of Catherine M (The) by Catherine Millet
Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Shadow Of The Wind (The) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shadows and Light: Joni Mitchell by Karen O'Brien
Sheer Abandon by Penny Vincenzi
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Shipping News (The) by E Annie Proulx
Simply Irresistible French Desserts by Christelle Le Ru
Sixth Lamentation (The) by William Brodrick
Sleep Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
Small Boat Of Great Sorrows (The) by Dan Fesperman
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Soft Target by Stephen Leather
Some Girls Will by Denise Sewell
Someone Like You by Cathy Kelly
Something Borrowed by Tina Reilly
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
Song for Salamander by Miriam Gallagher
Sophia's Story by Susan McKay
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
State of Happiness by Stella Duffy
Stay by Aislinn Hunter
Stepford Wives (The) by Ira Levin
Strip City by Lily Burana
Story of Lucy Gault (The) by Willam Trevor
Summer House, Later (The) by Judith Herman
Super Cannes by JG Ballard
Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
Sweet Talking Money by Harry Bingham
Swing of Things (The) by Sean O'Reilly
Talk Nation by Aubrey Malone
Take 6 Ingredients by Conrad Gallagher
Tangled Up in You by Gemma English
Tara's Fortune by Geraldine O'Neill
Tarte Herrmann Tatin by Susan Loomis
Taste: Baking by Dean Brettschneider & Lorraine Jacobs
Taste: A New Way to Cook by Sybil Kapoor
Tatty by Christine Dwyer Hickey
Tea House on Mulberry Street (The) by Sharon Owens
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Temptation by Martina Devlin
Tenko Club (The) by Elizabeth Noble
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
This is the Country by William Wall
This Model Life by Andrew O'Connor
Third Time He Left Me (The) by Sarah Harris
Third Witch (The) by Rebecca Reisert
Time in a Bottle by Denise Deegan
Time Tracks by Michael Cronin
Time Traveler's Wife (The) by Audrey Niffenegger
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes
'Tis Herself by Maureen O'Hara
Trace by Patricia Cornwell
Travelling Light edited by Sarah Webb
Trattoria: Food for Family and Friends by Ursula Ferrigno
Trouble With Boys (The) by Gemma English
True Believer by Nicholas Sparks
Trust Me by Lesley Pearse
Truth Club (The) by Grace Wynne-Jones
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Tumbling Jude by Nicola Lindsay
Turn of the Screw (The) by Henry James
Twisted by Jonathan Kellerman
Two for Joy by Patricia Scanlon
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
Tyrant's Novel (The) by Thomas Keneally
Unwrapped edited by Caroline Jeremy
Upside Down Inside Out by Monica McInerney
Vagina Monologues (The) by Eve Ensler
Valley of the Dolls (The) by Jacqueline Susann
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
Waking Up In Dublin by Neil Hegarty
Walking On Water by Gemma O'Connor
Walter Sickert: A Life by Matthew Sturgis
Watermark by Sean O'Reilly
Wedded Blitz by Tina Reilly
Weight of Water (The) by Anita Shreve
Whale Rider (The) by Witi Ihimaera
What She Wants by Cathy Kelly
When the Bough Breaks by June Considine
Where the Rain Gets in by Adrian White
Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Windbreaker Season (The) by Terri O'Mahony
Wishful Thinking by Melissa Hill
Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
Women's Room (The) by Marilyn French
Years by La Vyrle Spencer
Yeats is Dead! by 15 Irish authors
Your Cheatin' Heart by Annie McCartney
Zade by Heather Reyes
Zarbo - Recipes From a New Zealand Deli by Mark McDonough
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One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
An examination of the lives of three sisters and their mother in Belfast just before the IRA ceasefire and the murder of their father by Loyalists. It should make for an emotional read but I found it quite un-engaging.
Sinéad Gleeson
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