Life Undercover, Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox In this factual account of her life as a CIA operative, Amaryllis Fox provides the reader with some interesting insight into one of the most controversial organisations on the planet. This is not a James Bond story, but it is much closer to the […]
Judgement In Death by JD Robb (2000) In this earlier instalment of the popular futuristic detective series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department has been tasked with finding the murderer of a cop who was moonlighting as a barman in an upscale club owned by Eve’s Irish billionaire husband, Roarke. […]
In Extremis, The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum Marie Colvin is best remembered as the fearless reporter for the London-based newspaper, The Sunday Times, who wore an eye patch and sent back stories from the most dangerous places on the planet. She was known as a hard-drinking, hard-living journalist who strove […]
Billy Connolly, Tall Tales and Wee Stories by Billy Connolly Billy Connolly was born on 24th November, 1942. His career path has taken him from the shipyards of Glasgow, where he worked as a welder, to life as a folk musician and then onto the stage as a stand-up comedian. He also did a stint […]
Outgrowing God by Richard Dawkins God is a desperately complex fella. He presides over a number of religions but takes different approaches to each. He even takes on different appearances. In Christianity, he’s a white man with a long flowing white beard, even though that faith was founded in the Middle East. In India, he […]
Irish Ghosts & Hauntings by Michael Scott Ireland is a land haunted by many ghosts. Sometimes sadness seeps from the streams, and despair from the soil. A nation that has known one million deaths due to the effects of starvation in a short time will have stories to tell. But the tales that are shared […]
Willie Nelson, My Life by Willie Nelson (2015) Willie Nelson was born on 29th April, 1933, and grew up just outside the small village of Abbott, in Hill County, Texas. His ancestral lineage has First Nations blood mixed with white settler form the Ozarks mountain range. Both his father, Ira, and his mother, Myrle, had […]
The Last by Hanna Jameson American and historian, Jon Keller, is attending a conference in Switzerland when the anticipated Apocalypse takes places. It’s nuclear war that gets us in the end. Most of the guests at L’Hotel Sixiéme flee in search of flights and trains home. But Jon finds himself stuck there with twenty others, […]
Bloody Genius by John Sandford (2019) Virgil Flowers is a detective with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension like no other. He grows his blonde hair kinda long and wears jeans and rock band t-shirts. He likes to fish and rarely carries a firearm preferring a shotgun when he has to use a weapon as […]
The Family On Paradise Pier by Dermot Bolger The Goold Verschoyle family are not typical of Irish families in early 20th century Ireland. For one thing, they are descended from Dutch profiteers who arrived on the Emerald Isle centuries before to make their money in any way they could and became wildly successful and influential. […]
Vendetta In Death by J.D. Robb (2019) Eve Dallas is one tough cookie. Not that you could call her that as she’d take you to the cleaners for being impertinent. Eve’s a New York homicide detective in 2060’s USA. It a strange world of flying cars, vending machines that cook your food and clothes from […]
Of Blood And Bone by Nora Roberts (2018) This is Book 2 of the Chronicles Of The One, and takes us into a world where our civilisation has ended. There’s a new reality and it ain’t pretty. Life is chaotic in these changed times. Magic is everywhere, released by darkness fermented by the likes of […]
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