The Sett: By Ranulph Fiennes (Mandarin)

Last update: Saturday, June 1, 2013, 10:24 | By: Murad Karim

The Sett is a story that will make your hair stand on end. It follows a man named Alex Goodman who wakes up in a hospital severely beaten and with no memory of who he really is, and how he ended up there. He struggles to find out his identity, and after a year he finally discovers who he really is.

Home By Toni Morrison (Chatto & Windus)

Last update: Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 11:04 | By: Jeanette Rehnstrom

Home is a lovely complex little book by an author for whom no introduction is needed. In the poor town of Lotus in Georgia, Frank has had a troubled upbringing through which he has steered himself and his little sister Cee as best he can. But trouble continues to visit them both and they are separated by war and what poses as love.

The Food of Spain: By Claudia Roden (Penguin)

Last update: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 12:12 | By: Anna Sweeney

Claudia Roden is not only a cookbook writer but also a master storyteller and historian who completely immerses herself in the culture of a country to uncover the beloved meals at the heart of its identity. For her latest book, an impressive collection of recipes and anecdotes on the regional foods of Spain, Roden spent five years carefully researching the rich culinary heritage of this vast and varied nation. She travelled the length and breadth of the country asking people she met for favourite recipes and family histories to get a genuine feel for the place.

Book Review by Ifedinma Dimbo

Last update: Friday, April 12, 2013, 10:46 | © Metro Éireann

One-Inch Punch by Oran Ryan (Seven Towers)

Becoming Unforgettable

Last update: Friday, March 29, 2013, 13:06 | © Metro Éireann

Jost Blasberg reviews "Becoming Unforgettable" by Ebun Akpoveta.

The Strangers in the House

Last update: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 11:21 | © Metro Éireann

The Strangers in the House by George Simenon (New York Review Books)

First novel is no foolish move for Nigerian writer

Last update: Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 10:59 | By: Catherine Reilly

From languishing in a Dublin asylum seeker hostel to becoming a published author and undertaking a PhD medical sociology, Nigerian woman Ifedinma Dimbo will surely pen her own remarkable story some day.

The Last of the Vostyachs

Last update: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 11:14 | © Metro Éireann

There’s a Finno-Ugric bee in Marani’s Italian bonnet, it seems. His most known work was New Finnish Grammar, the translation of which came out in 2011, and now this book, which came out last year (translated by Judith Landry) and which also concerns itself with the mysterious origins of the Finnish language.

The Revisionists By Thomas Mullen (Mulholland Books)

Last update: Friday, February 8, 2013, 12:50 | By: Roslyn Fuller

Zed is an intelligence agent from ‘the Perfect Present’, sent back in time to Washington DC circa 2006 to ensure that the horrific, catastrophic event known in his time as the ‘Great Conflagration’ happens, for without this event his own perfect, stable world will not be quite so perfect.

Book Review by by Ifedinma Dimbo

Last update: Saturday, September 1, 2012, 00:51 | © Metro Éireann

Not many people are interested in what makes up the food on their table – that is, how it’s grown or where it comes from. Of course there are the purists who would want organic produce so that their bodies will not be polluted by unnecessary chemicals, or the ethically minded who want to ensure the producers of what they consume are compensated fairly and so would seek out ethically produced food, but they are not in the mainstream.

Book Review by Roslyn Fuller

Last update: Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 15:34 | By: Roslyn Fuller

Arrow of God By Chinua Achebe(Penguin Classics)

Book Review by Ifedinma Dimbo

Last update: Friday, June 15, 2012, 02:03 | © Metro Éireann

He Gave Me Comfort By Eyum Ocheola-Oki (Kingdom Media Ministries)

Homage to Catalonia By George Orwell (Penguin)

Last update: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 13:23 | © Metro Éireann

Book Review by Sergio Angulo Bujanda

Book Review by Jeanette Rehnstrom - Ordinary Dogs By Eileen Battersby (Faber & Faber)

Ordinary Dogs won’t be to everyone’s taste, not because it isn’t interesting, but very much due to differing views of animals and their place in our lives – especially here in Ireland, where animals often seem to have little right to a happy life.

Lightning Rods By Helen DeWitt (New Directions)

Last update: Thursday, March 15, 2012, 02:19 | By: Roslyn Fuller

Book Review by Roslyn Fuller

Atlas of Unknowns By Tania James (Simon & Schuster)

Book Review by Ifendinma Dimbo

Victory at Last By Margaret Moni Jonathan (Self-published)

Book Review by Pamela Toyin Akinjobi

Book Review by Jeanatte Rehnstrom - Atlas of Remote Islands By Judith Schalansky (Penguin)

This was one of my favourite books of last year, but unfortunately I did not get to review it in time for Christmas. Even so, this makes a fabulous present at any time, for anyone in your life who loves fantastic adventures, especially of the armchair variety.

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