Categorie: Irish writer
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Twist
https://www.deharmonie.nl/titel/twist/ Review: If you gaze long into an abyss… De Ierse journalist Anthony Fennell reist af naar Zuid-Afrika om er een portret te maken over Joseph Conway, de kapitein van de ‘Georges Lecointe‘, een vrachtschip dat afvaart als er kabelbreuken zijn in de internetkabels. Onder leiding van de bekwame maar wat excentrieke kapitein vaart Fennell…
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In de Schaduw
https://www.awbruna.nl/boek/thrillers/liz-nugent/in-de-schaduw/ Review: (Dutch) Het is 1980, Ierland. Annie Doyle verdwijnt! De familie Doyle blijft verweesd achter. Ook al hebben ze een problematische relatie met Annie wegens haar levensstijl, drugsverslaving en prostitutie, het blijft toch nog hun dochter, Karens zus… de politie volgt de zaak dan ook niet echt goed op. De enige rechercheur die denkt…
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Review: This has been a doozy, something I quite expected because every time I read a classic novel, I struggle. So I listened to the audiobook while reading it, which made it less tedious, especially when I discovered the option to listen to it in a faster pace. One thing really made up for it…
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So late in the Day
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571382019-so-late-in-the-day/ Review: Cathal has another uneventful Friday, July 29th, and he’s about to step into a bus, towards the long weekend. While facing the weekend and during the trip on the bus and the walk to his house, he thinks of a woman Sabine, the woman he could have had a life with if he…
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Foster
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571379149-foster/ Review: A father drops his child off at some relatives, the Kinsellas. The girl is suddenly thrown into a bath of warmth and love, such as she has never truly known at home (with all the siblings and a new one arriving real soon at home). She doesn’t know what to feel at first…
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Strange Sally Diamond
Review: Thomas Diamond had said to Sally: “Put me out with the bins. When I die, put me out with the bins. I’ll be dead, so I won’t know the difference.” So that’s what Sally Diamond did. She put him with the trash and tried to incinerate her (adoptive) father. Little did she know that…
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