McCarthy’s Bar

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

McCarthy’s Bar

The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy’s hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.

McCarthy’s tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.

Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.

Firstly obeying the rule ‘never pass a pub with your name on it’, he encounters McCarthy’s bars up and down the land, and meets English hippies, German musicians, married priests and many others.

A funny, affectionate look at one of the most popular countries in the world.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Author: Pete McCarthy
Narrator: Pete McCarthy
ISBN: 1844565181
Download Price: $17.25

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Angela’s Ashes

Sunday, May 25th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

People everywhere brag or whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all we were wet…’

So begins Frank McCourt’s stunning memoir of his childhood in Ireland and America, a recollection in Ireland and America, a recollection of unvarnished truth and no self pity, of grinding poverty and indomitable spirit that will live in the memory long after the tracks have ended.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Author: Frank McCourt
Narrator: Frank McCourt
ISBN: 000715982x
Download Price: $13.25 Continue…

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