Love of the World Essays- John McGahern

by Orlagh on January 25, 2010

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This definitive book brings together all the surviving non-fiction of John McGahern, whose work has entered the canon of modern prose. While nearly all of McGahern’s creative energy went into his novels and stories, his non-fiction writings are of interest to anyone who cares about his work, and to all those interested in the recent history of Ireland and its culture. These writings were many and varied: reviews, essays, speeches and interviews.

His discussions of Irish writers who influenced him are generous, brilliant and substantial – among them Michael McLaverty, Ernie O’Malley and Forrest Reid.

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Race of a Lifetime by John Heileman & Mark Halperin

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Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. President Barack Obama’s triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant, calculated, convention-defying political campaign. In a race that will be talked about for years to come, he faced down his rivals with ruthless [...]

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Senior Bookclub – February

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The Gates by John Connolly.  Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Hallowe’en. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue.The Abernathys don’t mean any harm by their flirtation with Satanism. But it just happens to coincide with [...]

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Book Club – February

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Persuasion by Jane Austen  At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is [...]

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Books read over Christmas

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Davy Byrnes Stories
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Book Club – January

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Staying On by Paul Scott
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Look Fab for Christmas

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Work Your Wardrobe – Gok Wan
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Some Christmas Fiction Recommends

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 Book 1 – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Winner of the 2009 Booker Prize
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant.
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Winterland – Alan Glynn

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The worlds of business, politics and crime collide in contemporary Dublin when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night – one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That’s the official version of events. But when a family member, [...]

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Junior Bookclub – December

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Olga da Polga is a guinea-pig with a wild imagination, and from the minute she arrives at her new home, she begins entertaining all the other animals in the garden with her outrageous stories. As well as telling all her tall tales, she also has time to get up to all kinds of mischief and [...]

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