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Engaging and always interesting, but no masterpiece

Armagh-born Darran McCann, a former journalist with The Irish News, is a graduate of TCD and DCU. In 2010, he secured a PhD in Creative Writing from Queen's University Belfast, where he now teaches the subject.

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Alford White House sex memoirs paint JFK in lecherous light

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

The young mistress of iconic US President John F Kennedy has penned a memoir detailing how he "abused and confided in her" during their affair, which ended only with his assassination.
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Destination unknown: the hopes and fears of an Egyptian revolutionary

Sunday, 5 February 2012

In January last year, when Tahrir Square erupted, a wild and foolish urge wanted me to race straight there, before sanity reminded me that "undesired Western influence" was written all over my pink khawaga face. So I followed it on the web, wondering, "Bliss was it, in that dawn to be alive?"
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East meets west in thrilling race to avert armageddon

Sunday, 5 February 2012

When his business partner and best friend is brutally murdered, callously beheaded by apparent Muslim extremists in a cellar beneath the historic Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul, Anglo-American scientist Sean Ryan flies to Turkey intent on finding out why Alex died so horribly.
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with a little help from

Sunday, 5 February 2012

Just as Andrea McLean's autobiography hits the shelves, her second marriage was foundering. But thanks to her Loose Women colleagues, she tells Hannah Stephenson, she'll get by
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How the 'Fighting Irish' took up arms on foreign shores

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

A new book, 'The Fighting Irish: The Story of the Extraordinary Irish Soldier', written by historian Tim Newark, tells the fascinating tale of Irish mercenaries and volunteers fighting on foreign shores down through the centuries.
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Falling under hisown spell

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Paul McKenna has made millions out of his guidance on how to make us happy, confident, thinner, richer and now smarter.
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the ghosts that haunt theTitanic

Sunday, 22 January 2012

With the centenary of the Titanic's sinking on April 15, 1912, on the way, we are about to be submerged by yet more books about the famous ship. There are hundreds already and more are on the way in the next few months.
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What's fresh on the menu for fighting flab

Sunday, 8 January 2012

With the excesses of Christmas behind us, there's a raft of slimming books being published to help fulfil those New Year resolutions to fight the flab and do more exercise.
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Gun-toting religion with a psychotic preacherman

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Graham Greene's religious faith was often fragile. When in one of his periodic moments of doubt he suggested to Evelyn Waugh that he was considering resigning from the Catholic novelist coterie to which the two belonged, Waugh was outraged and insisted Greene carry on writing novels with a religious basis, however uncertain his belief had become.
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The quiet man behind an Amazonian monster

Sunday, 1 January 2012

The passing of Steve Jobs left a cavernous void at the top table of tech entrepreneurs.
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Science versus Christianity: bridging that age-old divide

Sunday, 1 January 2012

The relationship between Christianity and science has long been a fraught one, whether you go back to the persecution of Galileo by the Inquisition in the 17th century, the rejection of Darwin by the ecclesiastical bigwigs in the 19th, or the current stand-off between militant atheists among the scientific community, such as Richard Dawkins, and a Church that still has faith in miracles.
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It's time for adigital detox

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Anyone who bought their loved one a laptop, smartphone, games console or other high-tech gizmo for Christmas may soon be wishing they hadn't.
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Jamie Oliver feels the wrath of US health experts

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Jamie Oliver's quest to bring his quirky brand of food and fun to the US has hit the buffers again - with his latest book being described as one of the worst publications of 2011.
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Something thrilling in your Christmas stocking

Sunday, 18 December 2011

There's nothing more hard-boiled crime and thriller fans would like in their Christmas stockings than a stack of the latest bestsellers from their favourite authors.
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Alternative word game that will hurt your head - in a good way

Sunday, 18 December 2011

W.e.l.d.e.r. IOS
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Public vote debut novel as Irish Book of the Year

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

'Solace', the debut novel by Longford writer Belinda McKeon, has been voted the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Year for 2011.
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Life is goodfor Cecelia

Sunday, 11 December 2011

It could have been a twist in one of her own romantic tales. When guests turned up to best-selling novelist Cecelia Ahern's daughter's christening last year, little did they know they were actually attending Ahern's wedding to long-time partner, actor David Keoghan.
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King's Kennedy assassination 'what if' misses the target

Sunday, 11 December 2011

He was arguably the most iconic politician of the 20th Century. And while his reputation may not be quite as glittering as it once was, there is still something magical about John F Kennedy.
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'Brutal' Prince Philip had Queen in tears over royal name

Monday, 5 December 2011

The Queen was reduced to tears by the Duke of Edinburgh's "brutal" behaviour towards her when she refused to take his surname of Mountbatten, according to a new biography.
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Vampire tale that has just enough to get the blood flowing

Sunday, 4 December 2011

Vampires are, without doubt, in vogue at the minute. Stephanie Myers' Twilight trilogy set the bookshelves and the big screen alight while True Blood is a firm TV favourite with older teens and a guilty pleasure for many adults.
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