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Mary Costello

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Mary Costello is an Irish-Australian writer whose currently leads a double life these days, partly in Melbourne and partly in her native Ireland. She spends six months of the year in Melbourne's bush-burbs with her husband of many years, who, oddly, bears no resemblance whatsoever to a romantic hero. They have two daughters, for whom Mary aspires to arrange advantageous matches to men of large property.

The other six months are spent in the gloriously green Glens of Antrim, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty that has inspired her current work-in-progress, a medieval adventure romance entitled Izabeau.

Mary's first book, Titanic Town, Memoirs of a Belfast Girlhood was published by Methuen UK. It's a fictionalised account of growin ...more

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	Titanic Town 3.73 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Irresistible Enemy 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My profile says I've been reading The Nebuly Coat for about the past 3 months. I finished it ages go, just don't how how to update the "currently reading" thingy. Suggestions anyone? Luddite at work.

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Mary’s Quotes

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves

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“Silence is sometimes the best answer”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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― Leo Tolstoy

tags: common-sense, wisdom

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“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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