Saturday, November 28, 2009

Boom and bust books

Books about boom and bust seem to be this years big sellers according to the Irish Times.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1128/1224259585575.html

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Author signing: Malahide Diamond Card Event


Michael Murphy, author of "At Five in the Afternoon" will be signing his book in Village Books on Wednesday 18th of November at 7. All welcome to come along and meet Michael and join us for a glass of prosecco.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Top 10 Crime November 2009

1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest- Stieg Larsson
2. Nine Dragons- Michael Connelly
3. Genesis- Karen Slaughter
4. Evil at Heart- Chelsea Cain
5. First Family- David Baldacci
6. Too Close to Home-Linwood Barclay
7. Good People- Marcus Sakey
8. Child 44- Tom Rob Smith
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. The Girl who Played with Fire

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Late Nights on Air- Elizabeth Hay


Late Nights on Air is set in the Canadian wilderness in the 1970s. This a really excellent character driven novel. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station.