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My Favourite Suzanne Collins Book 2 – Gregor: The Underland Chronicles Set

Title: Gregor: The Underland Chronicles Set
 
Author: Suzanne Collins
Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc. (Sep 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0545166810
ISBN-13: 978-0545166812
Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.8 x 11 cm

Product Description
When 11-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of his New York City apartment building, he hurtles into a dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans [...:]

My Favourite Suzanne Collins Book 1 – Mockingjay

Title: Mockingjay (part III of The Hunger Games Trilogy)
 
Author: Suzanne Collins
Paperback: 164 pages
Publisher: Scholastic; 1 edition (2 Aug 2010)
ISBN-10: 1407109375
ISBN-13: 978-1407109374
Product Description

Product Description
 Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The [...:]

My Book Recommendation: Shutter Island

Title: Shutter Island
 
Author: Dennis Lehane
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) (4 Feb 2010)
ISBN-10: 0553824481
ISBN-13: 978-0553824483
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
Product Description
Tie-in to the major motion picture, released on 12th March 2010. US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital [...:]

My Favourite David Nicholls Book 2 – Starter For Ten

Title: Starter for Ten
 
Author: David Nicholls
Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, London; First Edition edition (19 July 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0340734876
ISBN-13: 978-0340734872
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 3.6 cm
Product Description
It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition – to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has [...:]

My Favourite David Nicholl Book 1 : One Day

Title: One Day
 
Author: David Nicholls
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (4 Feb 2010)
ISBN-10: 0340896981
ISBN-13: 978-0340896983
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.6 cm
Product Description

'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.'
He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.'
15th July 1988. Emma and [...:]

My Book Recommendation : The Forgotten Highlander

Title:The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
 
Author: Alistair Urquhart
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown (4 Mar 2010)
ISBN-10: 1408702118
ISBN-13: 978-1408702116
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 4.2 cm
Product Description
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on [...:]

My Favourite Jamie Oliver Book 2 – Jamie's Ministry of Food

Title: Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours
 
Author: Jamie Oliver
Hardcover: 359 pages
Publisher: Michael Joseph (2 Oct 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0718148622
ISBN-13: 978-0718148621
Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 19 x 3.2 cm
Product Description
Sixty years ago food was in short supply and malnutrition rates were high. The Ministry of Food was set up to teach [...:]

My Favourite Jamie Oliver Book 1- Jamie's Italy

Title: Jamie's Italy
 
Author: Jamie Oliver
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (31 May 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141019697
ISBN-13: 978-0141019697
Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 19 x 3 cm 
Product Description
Ever since working at the River Cafe for Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray, Jamie Oliver has had a serious passion for Italian food. Now, ten years later, Italy and its [...:]

My Book Recommendation : Dishonour

Title: Dishonour
 
Author: Helen Black
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: AVON, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (10 Dec 2009)
ISBN-10: 1847560725
ISBN-13: 978-1847560728
Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3 cm
Product Description
Who can protect you when your family are the ones you're running from? The gripping new thriller from the acclaimed author of DAMAGED GOODS. Heavily pregnant and in the [...:]

Irish Crime by Annette J Dunlea

Irish Crime by Annette J Dunlea
Published in The Carrigdhoun Newspaper April 2010 p.24
97% of the Irish population believe crime is spiralling out of control. The illict drug market and associated crime is having a corrosive impact on Irish society. The Annual Crime Statistics show many crimes are down, while others are rising. In 1995 581,217 [...:]