Dubray Books Recommended Reads August 2011

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I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Steve Earle

Paperback · 07 Jul 2011 · €17.35
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Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams - not just in the figurative sense, not just because Doc was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because Doc is rumoured to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him. In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc is himself wracked by addiction.

How to be a Woman
Caitlin Moran

Paperback · 16 Jun 2011 · €16.00
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There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should you get Botox? And do men secretly hate us? This title answers these questions and more.

On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry

Paperback · 04 Aug 2011 · €18.70
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Narrated by Lilly Bere, the story opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. It then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger.

The Raising
Laura Kasischke

Paperback · 15 Mar 2011 · €17.35

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This hypnotic, haunting story of a college obsessed by a student's sudden death is unsettling, unputdownable and unforgettable. The Raising is Corvus 2011's HOTTEST book.

Solace
Belinda McKeon

Hardback · 05 Aug 2011 · €17.35
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As tender as it is heartbreaking, a brilliant debut from an exciting new voice in Irish fiction

Backseat Saints
Joshilyn Jackson

Paperback · 04 Aug 2011 · €16.00
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NY Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson returns with a gripping new novel in her trademark style, following one woman's struggle to evade certain death at the hands of her abusive husband, while uncovering the family secrets that have held her captive.

Gioconda
Lucille Turner

Paperback · 07 Jul 2011 · €17.35

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A startlingly assured and luminous first novel which imagines Leonardo da Vinci's life, shedding light on the many enigmas surrounding him, in particular the painting of the Mona Lisa.

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

Paperback · 09 Jun 2011 · €10.00

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A novel that circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. It is about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates.-

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