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Book Review – Blah Blah Black Sheep by Maggie Gibson

‘Blah, Blah Blacksheep’ is a helter-skelter ride through one week in your average journalist’s life (no, really). Maggie Gibson’s latest offering is fluid and full of Irish humour – the perfect comic beach read. This is another one of those cheapo British trash novels I pick up for around RM5 at Popular/MPH, I always look […]

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Book Review – Midnight Cowboy – James Leo Herlihy

Midnight Cowboy is the powerful and unforgettable novel of the compelling need of human beings for one another — a wrenching story of pain and loss. Freewheeling loser Joe Buck arrives in New York City and embarks on a quest to live the American dream. Along the way he meets street hustler and petty criminal […]

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Book Review – Sorting Out Billy by Jo Brand

Martha had never progressed much beyond hating her father for being cruel to her and her mum, even though he was supposed to be a man of God. Martha was now 38 and eight months pregnant. She told everyone that she didn’t know who the baby’s father was, but she knew perfectly well it was […]

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