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Written by Stylist Team Author Libby Page takes us through her top bedtime stories, and it’s enough to get us all into bed early. When was the last time you read a book before bed? If you’re anything like me, it’s all too easy to find yourself lost down an Instagram hole before going to sleep. But using your phone […]
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A leading Irish author has been refused a €30,000 tax rebate on a major international award won in 2012. A showdown between the author and the Revenue Commissioners saw the well-heeled writer lose out following a failed plea made to the Tax Appeals Commission. The Revenue Commissioners had refused a tax repayment sought by the unnamed author in respect of […]
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What makes China tick? Fascinating memoir examines the astounding changes taking place in the world’s second largest economy – from superhighways to vast airports Tessa Keswick reflects on her experiences in China in a fascinating memoir She recalls visiting towns that were pitifully dilapidated throughout the 1980s One of her travelling companion had the contents of his suitcase eaten by rats […]
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The little village of Spanish Cove is one of the most attractive holiday resorts in south Co Wexford, but in 2008 it made the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Adam Lattimer, the 21-year-old eldest son of Spanish Cove’s most prominent and wealthy family, vanishes without trace. Despite extensive searches, no trace of him was ever found, and he is […]
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When life is tough, pick up a poem! The best titles for those who love rhymes British literary critic Bel Mooney, rounded up her favourite poetry books She admits to trying verses on her husband from Up In The Attic by Pam Ayres Her top picks also include Joinedupwriting, Sleeping Letters and In Still Life From his beginnings as a young Mersey Sound poet in […]
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John Bruton says a new book challenges much of the recent historical assessment of the 1910-14 crisis and draws analogies to the recent politics of Brexit Anyone who has been following the politics of Brexit in Westminster, and in Northern Ireland, for the last three years will find much that is familiar in this book. As I read it, I […]
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Reading inspires writing, so we’ve rounded up a list from some of our best-known authors to find out which books stood out from the pack or inspired them – be it thriller, romance or memoir – over the past 12 months. Here are their top selections. Colm Tóibín Joseph O’Connor’s Shadowplay tells the story of Bram Stoker, the author of […]
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In the summer of 2018, Putnam published an unusual debut novel by a retired wildlife biologist named Delia Owens. The book, which had an odd title and didn’t fit neatly into any genre, hardly seemed destined to be a blockbuster, so Putnam printed about 28,000 copies. It wasn’t nearly enough. A year and a half later, the novel, “Where the […]
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It was a Sunday night in 1971. The sky was black. The road was black. I couldn’t see my feet. I couldn’t see where the tarmac ended and the grass verge began. I had to get home to Aylesbury that night. I was 19. I had lingered too long bidding sweet good nights to a girlfriend on the doorstep of […]
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Then a huge spaceship hovers over London – and man learns that centuries of greed and destruction have not gone unnoticed. From the spaceship comes a highly sophisticated, technologically advanced human from another planet whose ancestors were whisked away by aliens several millennia before. He delivers a warning to the world: Sort out this mess or we may have to […]
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