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Category Archives: Biography
Outline by Rachel Cusk (Vintage)
“Before the flight I was invited for lunch at a London club with a billionaire I’d been promised had liberal credentials.” I GOT my copy of this book second hand. Various passages were marked up as if the previous reader … Continue reading
Ashes in the Wind by Christopher Bland (Head Zeus)
“John Burke wants to be Tomas Sullivan. John wants Tomas’s worn brown boots, the scabs on his knees, his green jersey darned with whatever coloured wool had come to his mother’s hand. He wants to talk like Tomas.” AN old … Continue reading
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Tagged christopher bland, County Kerry, Derrquin castle, drimnamore, horse racing, Irish history, oysters
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Recipes for a nervous breakdown by Sophie White (Gill)
“Before going mad, I didn’t really give madness that much thought. It seemed like a distant concept that had absolutely zero bearing on my life.” THE best recipe writing comes from a compulsion, like composers, to explain a passion, a … Continue reading
Posted in Biography
Tagged autobiography, bad trip, cooking, drug writing, homemade rolos, Humour, recipes, sophie white
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The Pigeon Tunnel by John Le Carre (penguin/Viking)
“I sit at my desk in the basement of the little Swiss chalet that I built with the profits from the Spy Who Came In From The Cold in a mountain village ninety minutes by train from Bern, the city … Continue reading
Homo Deus by Yoav Noah Harari ( (Penguin)
“At the dawn of the third millennium, humanity wakes up, stretching its limbs and rubbing its eyes. Remnants of some awful nightmare are still drifting across its mind.” HOWEVER awful events might have been through history, it is over. It … Continue reading
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Tagged dataism, futureshock, harari, homo deus, humanism, yuval noah
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The bird tribunal by Agnes Ravatn (Orenda)
“My pulse raced as I traipsed through the silent forest. The occasional screech of a bird, and, other than that, only naked, grey deciduous trees, spindly young saplings and the odd blue-green sprig of juniper in the muted April sunlight.” … Continue reading
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Tagged agnes ravatn, bird tribunal, Nordic fiction, psychology
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Days without end by Sebastian Barry (Faber)
“The method of laying out a corpse in Missouri sure took the proverbial cake.” ELENA Ferrante took four books to portray her Neapolitan chronicles, so Sebastian Barry follows the fortunes of the McNulty family in different, self standing tomes, just … Continue reading
On writing by Stephen King (Pocket)
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.” BEFORE you are tempted to take out your feather plume and dip it in the black ink, before you type in the password on your computer, … Continue reading
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