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Matter by Ian M. Banks
<p>Matter is the latest in Ian M. Banks Culture novel. It follows the usual format for Culture novels: weaving a very personal story into a...</p>
Reviewed by theaardvark via 
on 02 Oct 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
irish gardens [book]
I have selected gardens… whose design clearly illustrates a particular period of garden history, and whose plantings demonstrate an almost obsessional love of plants and the surrounding Irish landscape irish gardens by olda fitzgerald The...
Reviewed by peter donegan via 
on 11 Sep 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
The Algebraist by Ian M. Banks
<p>What distinguishes Ian M. Banks's novel is the shear scale of the universes he creates. He paints a picutre not just of the his characters...</p>
Reviewed by theaardvark via on 09 Sep 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Dissolution by C J Sansom
Set in England at the time of King Henry VIII and his dissolution of the monasteries, this murder mystery starts with the sending of lawyer and reformist Matthew Shardlake to a Benedictine monastery where the previous commissioner had been found...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via 
on 25 Aug 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
food for free
book review - food for free At €17.60 - this ‘life enhancing classic' could nearly buy you a good meal and a glass of fine wine… In the scheme of things it's pricy. But is it well worth it? From revealing the...
Reviewed by peter donegan via on 18 Aug 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver
So Wimbledon was in progress, I was in my local bookshop and this novel caught my eye. Its the story of Willy, a low ranking tennis professional on the way up when we first encounter her. She's been playing tennis since aged four and is now...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 18 Jul 2008.
2 of 2 people found this useful.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Easy to read, page turner of a novel whose main character is Peter, a bullied teenager, who heads into high school one morning armed and kills ten people. I found many of the characters to be cliched and a bit one dimensional. But despite that the...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 03 Jul 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
www.schoolbooksonline.ie
T photo credit: houseoftext My 3 primary school going kids got their book lists for next September a week or so ago and having learnt my lesson from previous years of leaving their purchase till August, I decided to get it all done and dusted...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 25 Jun 2008.
1 of 1 people found this useful.
My Favourite Wife by Tony Parsons
Having read and enjoyed “Man and Boy” and “One for my baby”, I was looking forward to reading this latest novel from Tony Parsons. Alas it was a major disappointment. Having just finished it, I am left with a sense of...
Reviewed by ManicMammy via on 30 Mar 2008.
2 of 2 people found this useful.
The Order of the Phoenix Park
Twenty Major 's first book, based on the characters from his blog, pulls no punches from the first page. A twisted story about brainwashing the Irish populace into becoming acoustic loving drips, it's up to Twenty, Jimmy the Bollix,...
Reviewed by Elly Parker via on 14 Mar 2008.
3 of 3 people found this useful.
