http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/?service=Rss http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/engaging-and-always-interesting-but-no-masterpiece-16116442.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/engaging-and-always-interesting-but-no-masterpiece-16116442.html?r=RSS 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. Books Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/alford-white-house-sex-memoirs-paint-jfk-in-lecherous-light-16114492.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/alford-white-house-sex-memoirs-paint-jfk-in-lecherous-light-16114492.html?r=RSS <p> The young mistress of iconic US President John F Kennedy has penned a memoir detailing how he &quot;abused and confided in her&quot; during their affair, which ended only with his assassination. </p> Books Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:23:51 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/with-a-little-help-from-16113429.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/with-a-little-help-from-16113429.html?r=RSS 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 Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/destination-unknown-the-hopes-and-fears-of-an-egyptian-revolutionary-16113433.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/destination-unknown-the-hopes-and-fears-of-an-egyptian-revolutionary-16113433.html?r=RSS 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?" Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/east-meets-west-in-thrilling-race-to-avert-armageddon-16113434.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/east-meets-west-in-thrilling-race-to-avert-armageddon-16113434.html?r=RSS 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. Books Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/how-the-fighting-irish-took-up-arms-on-foreign-shores-16111139.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/how-the-fighting-irish-took-up-arms-on-foreign-shores-16111139.html?r=RSS <p> 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. </p> Books Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:38:33 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/falling-under-hisown-spell-16110176.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/falling-under-hisown-spell-16110176.html?r=RSS Paul McKenna has made millions out of his guidance on how to make us happy, confident, thinner, richer and now smarter. Books Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/the-ghosts-that-haunt-thetitanic-16106833.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/books/the-ghosts-that-haunt-thetitanic-16106833.html?r=RSS 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. Books Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000