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Book Birds

Book Birds

By: Ciara Geraghty
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We've decided to re-read the novels we fell in love with, all those years ago. What was it we loved about them? Do we still feel the same way? Have those characters changed for us? We have a lot of questions. We need answers!

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Music by Eugene Peelo

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  • The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

    The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
    Dec 19 2022

    The Accidental Tourist was published in 1985 and made into an Oscar winning film starring Geena Davis, Kathleen Turner and William Hurt. By turns dark, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud hilarious, The Accidental Tourist tells the tale of William Leary who writes travel guidebooks for people who hate to travel. It has been a year since the murder of his 12 year old son. The story opens with William's wife, Sarah, announcing that she is leaving him after which follows his descent into a kind of domestic madness where all the systems he has put in place for protecting him from the world no longer seem to work. Enter dog-trainer extraordinaire, Muriel Pritchett, ostensibly to put manners on William's troubled dog, Edward. Despite his rigorous barriers, William finds himself drawn to the outrageously unsuitable Muriel who represents everything in the world William has been at pains to avoid.


    A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Accidental Tourist is one of our favourite of Anne Tyler's twenty-four novels. We hope you enjoy!

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    39 mins
  • The Van by Roddy Doyle.

    The Van by Roddy Doyle.
    Apr 14 2022

    The Van

    On this episode we re-read Roddy Doyle’s, The Van.

    Shortlisted for The Booker prize, it is the last novel of his superb trilogy about the Rabbitte family of North Dublin. Two old friends who are down on their luck and short on options decide that fast food might be the best way to make some fast cash! So Jimmy and his best friend Bimbo buy an old fish and chip van and go into business in Dublin, in the 1990’s … but not everything goes exactly to plan.


    An ingenious look at the triumphs and indignities of family life, wonderfully funny, touching with a lot of grease thrown in.


    We hope you will enjoy!


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    42 mins
  • Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy

    Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
    Nov 11 2021
    Re-reading Maeve's debut novel made us fall in love with her all over again and we're pretty sure you will too. An epic tale of two friends who meet when they are ten. Aisling is an Irish country girl and Elizabeth is a refugee from London during the blitz. In spite of their many differences - cultural, political, religious - the pair become great friends and their friendship sustains them throughout the twenty years the novel spans.

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    44 mins
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