Bridge Street Books

Wicklow

Favourite books of 2010
 
 

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Ladies

1.  Room - Emma Donoghue

2. The hand that first held mine - Maggie O'Farrell

3. Wait for Me - Deborah Devonshire

4. Started Early, Took my Dog - Kate Atkinson

5. The Housekeeper & the Professor - Yoko Ogawa

6. One Day - David Nicholls

7. Catherine's Italian Kitchen - Catherine Fulvio

8. Wildflowers of Ireland

9. Enjoying Style & Fashion - Lisa Fitzpatrick

10. Vegetables for Irish Garden - Klaus Laitenberger

Gents

1.  The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson

2. Parrot & Olivier in America - Peter Carey

3. Callsign Hades - Patrick Bury

4. Wheel of Time 13: Towers of Midnight - Robert Jordan

5. Wasters - Shane Ross

6. Fear : Last Days of Robert Mugabe - Peter Godwin

7. Jamie's 30 Minute Dinners - Jamie Oliver

8. Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving

9. Kitchen - Nigella Lawson

10. Sh*t my Dad Says - Justin Halperin

Teen

1. Out of Shadows - Jason Wallace

2. New Town Soul - Dermot Bolger

3. The Vanishing of Katharina Linden - Helen Grant

4. No & Me - Delphine De Vigan

5. Chaos Walking Trilogy - Patrick Ness

6. Chocolate Cake with Hitler - Emma Craigie

7. Angel - L.A. Weatherly

8. Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

9. Love Aubrey - Suzanne LaFleur

10. Bridesmaid Blitz - Sarah Webb

Also:  Gone - Michael Grant & When I was Joe - Keren David

 
 

 

Children 9+

1. How to do Everything

2. SOS Icequake - Colin Bateman

3. Mr Stink - David Walliams

4. Trash - Andy Mulligan

5.  Bitter Chocolate - Sally Grindley

6.Football Records 2011

7.Danger - Encyclopedia of all things dangerous

8. My Name is Mina - David Almond

9.Eva - Judy Curtin

10. Longest Whale Song - Jacqueline Wilson

 

Children's picture books

1. On the Road with Mavis & Marge - Niamh Sharkey

2. What the Ladybird heard - Julia Donaldson

3. The Very Cranky Bear - Nick Bland

4. Polly's Pink Pyjamas - Vivian French

5. Tiny Little Fly - Michael Rosen

6. Zog - Julia Donaldson

7.Doodle Bites - Polly Dunbar

8. Yummy: Favourite Nursery Rhymes -Lucy Cousins

9. Charlie & Lola Slightly Invisible - Lauren Child

10. Up & Down - Oliver Jeffers

Best Christmas:  The Polar Express (with cd, read by Liam Neeson) - Chris Van Allsburg & Santasaurus - Niamh Sharkey

Children 5-8

1. Ivy & Bean - Barrows/Blackall

2.Clementine - Sara Pennypacker

3.Her Mother's Face- Roddy Doyle

4. Tumtum & Nutmeg - Emily Bean

5. Dear Hound - Jill Murphy

6. Judy & Stink's Mad Mad Mad Mad Treasure Hunt - Megan McDonald

7.Ottoline at Sea - Chris Riddell

8. Mr Gum & the Secret Hideout - Andy Stanton

9. Adventures of Ook & Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the future - Dav Pilkey

10. The Great Rabbit Rescue - Katie Davies