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Starcrossed

by Josephine Angelini (Macmillan) ISBN: 978-0-330-52973-0   Helen Hamilton lives with her Dad. Her mother abandoned them when Helen was a baby.   Helen is intelligent, beautiful and fast. She is also shy and tries to fade into the background. That is until one day she encounters the new boy at school, Lucas Delos. Lucas […]

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The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides (Harper Collins) ISBN: 978-0-307-40186-1   Sticking to his “one novel per decade”, Pulitzer prize-winning, Jeffrey Eugenides, has now delivered The Marriage Plot. The novel is very different from Middlesex but, for me, as enjoyable.   We follow three young people, Madeline, Leonard and Mitchell, during their college years and first year in

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Book Review – Enchantment

by Guy Kawasaki (Portfolio Penguin)  ISBN: 978-0-241-95364-8 This is Kawasaki’s tenth book. Enchantment is about the intangibles in business as opposed to the tried, tested, formulas about making money. Kawasaki realises that the consumer in a technological world knows more and compares more. Business is no longer about offering the best price or best customer

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