Maeve Binchy

Maeve Binchy's Treasury
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781742376004
RRP: $29.99

A collection of Maeve Binchy's heart warming short stories, including some set in Australia, all showing her deep insights into family life....

Evening Class
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752876825
RRP: $22.99

Among the many evening classes starting all over Dublin is an 'Introduction to Italian'. On the surface it could be just one of hundreds in which some students will succeed and some will fall along the way. But the Italian class at Mountainview School has its own special quality and the hopes and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twice weekly lessons. The students learn far more ...

Glass Lake
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752876870
RRP: $22.99

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away, for it is a place where changes come slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The con...

Heart and Soul
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752884646
RRP: $22.99

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. As if this wasn't enough, Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new...

Nights Of Rain And Stars
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752865362
RRP: $22.99

In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time: Fiona, an Irish nurse, Thomas, a Californian academic; Elsa, a German television presenter; and David, a shy English boy. Along with Andreas, the old man who runs the taverna, they become close to each other after witnessing a tragedy when a pleasure steamer catches fire in the harbour. 'Nights...

Quentins
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752876849
RRP: $22.99

Every table at Quentins restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge. There has been hope and despair sitting in the chairs. The staff who come and go have stories of their own and the restaurant itself has had times when it looked set for success and others when it seemed as if it must close in failure. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Du...

Scarlet Feather
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752876856
RRP: $22.99

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps of talent and even a few contacts - but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of 'Scarlet Feather' as they are. Tom's parents are disappointed that he has turned his back on the family business. Cathy's husband buries himself in work, becoming ever mor...

Tara Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752876863
RRP: $22.99

Maeve Binchy's bestselling novel tells the story of two women who agree to borrow each other's houses for the duration of one dramatic summer, despite the fact that they have never met and have absolutely nothing in common, least of all their taste in houses. Ria Lynch's house in Tara Road, Dublin is brimming with life, with people and possessions. Marilyn Vine's house in New Engla...

The Copper Beech
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752876818
RRP: $22.99

Shancarrig School stands in the shade of a glorious old copper beech whose colours tell the passing of the seasons and the years: a tree that has watched over many young lives . . . Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Ross's careful gaze the children play, but out of school, Maddy's gaze lingers where it shouldn't. Marua Brennan, a bundle of fun from the rough end of town, plays wi...

Whitethorn Woods
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752881478
RRP: $22.99

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character and charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown into a place of chain stores and traffic problems and housing estates. But it still has the woods, with the well dedicated to St Ann, where generations have come to pray or make wishes or just to look back at the pretty little town. Which is why there is going to be such a ...

Minding Frankie
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781409117919
RRP: $22.99

Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn't have much time. Noel doesn't seem to be the most promising of fathers but despite everything, he could well be Frankie's best hope. As for Lisa, she is prepared to give up everything for the man she loves; surely he's going to love her back.And Moira is hav...

The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752883076
RRP: $27.00

'The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story.' - Maeve Binchy. THE MAEVE BINCHY WRITERS' CLUB gives a unique insight into how a No.1 bestselling author writes. Inspired by a course run by the National College of Ireland, it comprises 20 letters from Maeve, offering advice, tips and her own wonderfully witty take on the life of a writer, in additio...

This Year It Will be Different
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741753547
RRP: $24.95

A charming collection of Maeve Binchy's much-loved Christmas stories, featuring new delights and old favourites. Aboard a plane bound for Australia, two strangers find themselves confessing their fears and laughing each other into courage; Nick and Janet meet at the Sydney Fish Markets . . . everything seems perfect, what could go wrong?; and Ethel is assured by her family that this year the ...

Echoes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099498650
RRP: $19.95

Growing up in a small seaside town in the 1950s, Clare O'Brien and David Power shout their hearts' desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far away from the town in which they live. Years later they meet again in Dublin, where David is studying medicine and Clare has won a scholarship to University College. But eventually Castlebay will draw them back and it...

Firefly Summer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099498667
RRP: $19.95

Kate and John Ryan have four children, of which the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long, hot summers Dara and Michael and their friends fish and swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt, the great house burned down during the Troubles . . . No one in Mountfern has the slightest inkling of what i...

Victoria Line, Central Line
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099498636
RRP: $19.95

Millions of people travel on London's tube every day yet we usually only give our fellow passengers a cursory glance. But Maeve Binchy manages to infuse these nameless people with absorbing stories to provide an engrossing cross-section of London life. From Green Park to Brixton, from Shepherd's Bush to Chancery Lane, everyday life is not nearly as mundane as we might think! At Notting ...

Circle Of Friends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099498599
RRP: $19.95

Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both go to study in Dublin, they meet a circle of friends that includes handsome Jack Foley and the selfish but beautiful Nan Mahon - whose ambition will drag them all into trouble. As Knockglen is surprised into new life the two girls, Benny and Eve, discover th...

Light A Penny Candle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099498575
RRP: $19.95

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through twenty turbulent years of change and chaos, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals Writing with warmth, wit and gre...

Scarlet Feather
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752842998
RRP: $18.99

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have talent, premises - even a few contacts. But not everyone is as pleased with the idea of "Scarlet Feather" as they are. Tom's parents wanted him to follow in the family business, and Cathy's mother-in-law believes Cathy should be at home. Yet neither Cathy's marriage, nor Tom&...

Minding Frankie
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307475480
RRP: $19.95

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Minding Frankie
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307475497
RRP: $10.95

Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until an social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home. By the author of Heart and Soul. Reprint....

Minding Frankie
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307273567
RRP: $34.95

Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until an social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home. By the author of Heart and Soul. 350,000 first printing....

Circle of Friends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345526809
RRP: $7.95

Portrays the uneasy association between beautiful, greedy jet-setter Nan Mahon and Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, best friends from a small Irish village....

The Glass Lake
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345526816
RRP: $7.95

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The Lilac Bus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345526823
RRP: $7.95

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Heart and Soul
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307742834
RRP: $19.95

Given the difficult task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by two difficult adult daughters, the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband, her colorful and diverse staff, and the demanding, often difficult patients they serve. Reprint. A best-selling book....

The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307473851
RRP: $19.95

In this warm and inspiring guide, beloved author Maeve Binchy shares her unique insight to how a best selling author writes: from finding a subject and creating good writing habits to sustaining progress and seeking a publisher....

Whitethorn Woods
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307455239
RRP: $19.95

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Heart and Soul
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307278425
RRP: $10.95

While trying to build an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by two difficult adult daughters, the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband, her colorful and diverse staff and the demanding patients they serve. Reprint. A best-selling novel....

Echoes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451225108
RRP: $19.95

Wealthy David Power and huckster's daughter Clare O'Brien are divided by class in the small, gossipy Irish town of Castlebay, but the love they have for each other knows no boundaries, reuniting them after many years apart and forcing them to fight for their love once again. Reprint....

Quentins
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451223913
RRP: $19.95

While filming a documentary about Quentins, a famed Dublin restaurant, Ella Brady explores the changing face of the city from the 1970s to the present day as she captures the stories of the people who have made Quentins a center of their lives. Reprint....

Scarlet Feather
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451222985
RRP: $19.95

Fresh from cooking school, Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet are hot new additions to the Dublin scene with their new catering company, called Scarlet Feather, but some people in the city, including their families, are not so keen on the idea of their success. Reprint....

Whitethorn Woods
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780307278418
RRP: $10.95

When a new highway is planned that will bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, the town's inhabitants are divided on whether or not the town will benefit or suffer from the construction....

Light a Penny Candle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451222640
RRP: $20.95

The chaotic events of World War II force Elizabeth White, a young English girl, to escape to Ireland, where she shares a friendship with Aisling O'Connor, with whom she endures years of change, joy, sorrow, betrayals, and an unbreakable bond....

Circle of Friends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341738
RRP: $18.95

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Evening Class
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341806
RRP: $18.95

An evening class in Italian becomes a catalyst in the lives of its participants, as they come together and their relationships grow....

Firefly Summer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341714
RRP: $18.95

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London Transports
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341776
RRP: $18.95

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Tara Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341813
RRP: $18.95

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The Copper Beech
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341752
RRP: $18.95

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The Glass Lake
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341769
RRP: $18.95

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The Lilac Bus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341745
RRP: $18.95

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The Return Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341790
RRP: $18.95

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This Year It Will Be Different
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341783
RRP: $18.95

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Echoes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451221964
RRP: $10.95

After Clare O'Brien, a poor shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, a son of a wealthy family of Castlebay, marry, they find the confinements of life in the small Irish seaside town of Castlebay once again closing in....

Of Human Bondage
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451530172
RRP: $7.95

From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship tha...

Nights of Rain and Stars
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451214461
RRP: $12.95

In a small Greek island village, local residents and a group of international travelers are brought together by sudden tragedy, in a story of friendship, dreams, fears, and complicated relationships forever altered by shared experiences. Reprint....

Light a Penny Candle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451211439
RRP: $12.95

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Irish Girls About Town
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780743457460
RRP: $16.95

An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Joan O'Neill, Gemma O'Connor, Catherine Dunne, and Martina Devlin. Original....

Tara Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440235590
RRP: $10.95

Thanks to a chance phone call, Ria from Dublin and Marilyn from New England switch houses for the summer with extraordinary results when they are drawn into lifestyles vastly different from their own....

The Return Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440224594
RRP: $10.95

Presents an evocative collection of poignant tales in which sons and lovers, daughters and strangers, and husbands and wives experience love and loss, and revelation and reconciliation. Reprint....

Evening Class
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440223207
RRP: $10.95

A disparate group of Irish men and women assembles every Tuesday and Thursday in Dublin for an introductory Italian class, but for the evening class and their teacher, a dream of Italy guides them to new friendships, understanding of themselves, and a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy. Reissue....

This Year It Will Be Different
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440223573
RRP: $10.95

Presents an anthology of Christmas stories reflecting on the various ways in which the holidays serve as a catalyst to promote change, growth, and new beginnings...

The Glass Lake
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440221593
RRP: $10.95

Unable to come to terms with her misfit mother's bouts of depression, Kit McMahon finds escape in her evening vigils along the lakeshore, until her mother's sudden death changes Kit's life...

The Lilac Bus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440213024
RRP: $10.95

As they journey back home, the passengers on the Tom Fitgerald's lilac bus--the bus that transports weekday Dublin workers back to their family homes in Rathdoon--come face to face with the unexpected. Reprint....

The Copper Beech
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440213291
RRP: $10.95

The small Irish town of Shancarrig's deepest secrets begin to unravel as closeted loves and vanities are revealed as unexpected passions, fears, and events intertwine. Reissue....

Silver Wedding
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440207771
RRP: $10.95

The children, friends, and relatives of Desmond and Deirdre Doyle gather in a small London suburb to honor the couple on the occasion of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Reissue....

Firefly Summer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440204190
RRP: $10.95

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A Tangled Web
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780194228145
RRP: $20.95

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Deeply Regretted By...
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780905223124
RRP: $4.95

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End of Term
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781903631553
RRP: $25.95

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Half-promised Land
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781903631652
RRP: $25.95

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Heart and Soul
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594133688
RRP: $20.95

Given the task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by her personal life, her staff, and difficult patients....

Minding Frankie
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410435187
RRP: $65.95

Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until an social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home. (General fiction). By the author of Heart and Soul. Simultaneous....

Minding Frankie
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594135064
RRP: $20.95

Agreeing to care for the baby that a terminally ill former girlfriend claims is his, recovering alcoholic Noel turns to a loving network of family and friends for help until a social worker attempts to place the baby in a foster home. Simultaneous. (general fiction)....

Quentins
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451209900
RRP: $10.95

While filming a documentary about Quentins, a famed Dublin restaurant, Ella Brady explores the changing face of the city from the 1970s to the present day as she captures the stories of the people who have made Quentins a center of their lives. Reprint....

Scarlet Feather
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451203779
RRP: $10.95

Fresh from cooking school, Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet are hot new additions to the Dublin scene with their new catering company, but some people in the city, including their families, are not so keen on the idea of their success. Reprint....

The Builders
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781934848166
RRP: $15.95

When builders arrive to work on the deserted house next to Nan Ryan, her grown children think she will not get a moment's peace, but builder Derek Doyle helps her unravel the mystery of the previous residents' vanishing....

Whitethorn Woods
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594132452
RRP: $18.95

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Aches & Pains
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752848631

Get the feel-better factor from Maeve Binchy as she teams up with artist Wendy Shea to bring us 'Aches & Pains'. This gem of a book includes: Five things you can say to annoy the patient in the next bed How to put on elastic stockings Six ways to make non-alcoholic drinks bearable How to be the perfect hospital visitor Unusual but essential things for your medicine cupboard Filled with...

Aches And Pains
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752825182

What do you want when you're miserable with aches and pains? Chocolates to rot your teeth? Grapes with dangerous pips in them? Expensive flowers that will need plenty of fuss and attention? Or would you rather laugh out loud and cheer up? This wonderful mixture of humour, common sense, and anecdote will advise on everything from baring your body, elastic stockings and giving up drink to c...

Circle Of Friends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099410867

Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both go to study in Dublin, they meet a circle of friends that includes handsome Jack Foley and the selfish but beautiful Nan Mahon - whose ambition will drag them all into trouble. As Knockglen is surprised into new life the two girls, Benny and Eve, discover th...

Circle Of Friends
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780340551332

Big generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both go to study in Dublin, they meet a circle of friends that includes handsome Jack Foley and the selfish but beautiful Nan Mahon - whose ambitions will drag them all into trouble. As Knockglen is surprised into new life the two girls, Benny and Eve, discover th...

Dublin 4
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099458104

A vintage collection of stories set in the heart of Dublin's fashionable Southside. - A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner . . . - A country girl savours the delights of city life . . . - A student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy . . . - A drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch his shattered career . . . 'Dublin 4' has all of Maeve Binchy...

Echoes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099485315

Growing up in a small seaside town in the 1950s, Clare O'Brien and David Power shout their hearts' desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far away from the town in which they live. Years later they meet again in Dublin, where David is studying medicine and Clare has won a scholarship to University College. But eventually Castlebay will draw them back and it...

Evening Class
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752809632

The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quality - as the focus for the varied hopes and dreams of teacher and pupils alike. Aidan Dunne needs his new evening class project to succeed almost as much as his pupils do. They too are looking for something more: Bill to find a way to keep spendthrif...

Firefly Summer
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099485414

Kate and John Ryan have four children, of which the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long, hot summers Dara and Michael and their friends fish and swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt, the great house burned down during the Troubles . . . No one in Mountfern has the slightest inkling of what i...

Heart and Soul
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307265791

Given the difficult task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by two difficult adult daughters, the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband, her colorful and diverse staff, and the demanding, often difficult patients they serve. 350,000 first printing....

Heart and Soul
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752897509

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. As if this wasn't enough, Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new...

Heart and Soul
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410411532

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Heart and Soul
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781552787281

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Light A Penny Candle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099196518

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous Irish O'Connors. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor which will survive twenty turbulent years. Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in friendsh...

Light a Penny Candle
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780451203045

The chaotic events of World War II force Elizabeth White, a shy, young English girl, to escape to Ireland, where she shares a friendship with Aisling O'Connor, with whom she endures years of change, joy, sorrow, soaring dreams, bitter betrayals, and an unbreakable bond. Reissue....

London Transports
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440212355

Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognise them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in 'London Transports' will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away - and yet so familiar . . . . . . Whe...

Maeve Binchy
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780517148648

Three of Maeve Binchy's most popular works celebrate Ireland and its people with The Lilac Bus, Firefly Summer, and Silver Wedding. ...

Maeve Binchy: Three #1 Bestsellers
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752872643

Three No.1 bestselling novels from the world's favourite storyteller 'The Glass Lake' - Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone and where change comes slowly. Then one day, Kit's mother, the beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. 'Scarlet Feather' - Cathy ...

Maeve Binchy: Three Great Novels
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752852843

Three wonderful novels in a great value single volume: 'Evening Glass', 'The Copper Beech', 'Tara Road'. 'Evening Class' The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others all over Dublin. But this class has its own special quality - as the focus for the varied hopes and dreams of teacher and pupils alike. By the time the pupils set off on ...

Minding Frankie
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781409113973

Noel and Lisa are among the most supportive parents at the nursery school. Never late to pick up their little girl, always patient and delighted to see her at the end of the day. But in fact neither of them are Frankie's parents. They have no blood relationship at all to this little girl. They are there first because of a promise, and they stayed because Frankie had become a life-line to them ...

Nights Of Rain And Stars
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780752851662

In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time: Fiona, an Irish nurse, Thomas, a Californian academic; Elsa, a German television presenter; and David, a shy English boy. Along with Andreas, the old man who runs the taverna, they become close to each other after witnessing a tragedy when a pleasure steamer catches fire in the harbour. Nights of R...

Quentins
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752849522

Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about Quentin's, the renowned Dublin restaurant that has captured the spirit of a generation and a city in the years it has been open. After all, every table in Quentin's has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal, revenge, hope and despair. And the restaurant itself has had times when it looks set fair for success and others when it see...

Quentins
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780752851655

Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about Quentin's, the renowned Dublin restaurant that has captured the spirit of a generation and a city in the years it has been open. After all, every table in Quentin's has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal, revenge, hope and despair. And the restaurant itself has had times when it looks set fair for success and others when it see...

Return Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741759594

Take The Return Journey and travel a magical road with Maeve Binchy. In the title story, Gina, travelling in Ireland, corresponds with her mother, Freda, about who and what she's finding in the home town Freda left unhappily many years ago. Frankie uses an unexpected trip with Robert to find out what she really wants from their relationship in 'Holiday Weather'. Victoria imagines what ...

Scarlet Feather
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780752838243

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They've found the perfect premises, they've got heaps of talent, and they even have a few contacts - but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of "Scarlet Feather" as they are. Tom's parents are disappointed that he has turned his back on the family building business. Cathy's mo...

Silver Wedding
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099604303

A silver wedding means a family gathering - difficult occasions at the best of times. But for the Doyles - Deirdre, Desmond and their children Anna, Helen and Brendan - it will be more difficult than most. For each of them is keeping up a front; each of them is nursing a secret would, or smarting over a hidden betrayal. As the day draws nearer so the tension mounts, until finally the guests gat...

Silver Wedding
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385341721

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Tara Road
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752826028

Ria and Marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean: one in a big, warm Victorian house in Tara Road, Dublin, the other in a modern, open-plan house in New England. Two more unlikely friends would be hard to find: Ria's life revolves around her family and friends, while Marilyn's reserve is born of grief. But when each needs a place to es...

The Copper Beech
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857979992

Shancarrig School stands in the shade of a glorious old copper beech whose colours tell the passing of the seasons and the years: a tree that has watched over many young lives . . . Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Ross's careful gaze the children play, but out of school, Maddy's gaze lingers where it shouldn't. Marua Brennan, a bundle of fun from the rough end of town, plays wi...

The Copper Beech / Evening Class
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752858326

Two great novels for the price of one from No1 bestselling author Maeve Binchy. 'The Copper Beech': By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. This tree is the gateway to Maeve Binchy's marvellous portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions, ri...

The Glass Lake
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857978018

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away, for it is a place where changes come slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The con...

The Lilac Bus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099502906

The lilac-coloured minibus belongs to Tome Fitzgerald. Each Friday night it is a meeting place for the same seven people who use it to travel home from Dublin to spend the weekend in Rathdoon. Each one has an inner life unknown to those fellow passengers . . . There's Nancy Morris, a real 'Miss Mouse' who is known for her meanness. Dee Burke - engrossed in her affair with an unfait...

The Return Journey
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781864488067

A collection of short stories. In the title story, Gina, travelling in Ireland, corresponds with her mother Freda, about who and what she's finding in the home town Freda left unhappily many years ago. Frankie uses an unexpected trip with Robert to find out what she really wants from their relationship in 'Holiday Weather'. Victoria imagines what it would mean to her widowed father ...

The Return Journey / This Year It Will Be Different
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741145458

A collection of Maeve Binchy's heartwarming short stories, including some set in Australia, all showing her deep insights into family life. Warm, humorous, sad and happy, this delightful collection set in Australia and around the world shows Maeve Binchy weaving her story-telling magic. Families, friends, lovers and the lonely - Binchy draws us into their lives with wisdom and generosity. T...

This Year It Will Be Different
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781865081977

A Christmas Treasury. Set in Australia and around the world, this delightful Christmas treasury of fourteen special stories bring us closer to the families, friends, lovers and the lonely of Binchy's imaginations, drawing us into their lives with her usual wisdom and generosity in such tales as: - 'Travelling Hopefully': Aboard a plane bound for Australia, two strangers find themselv...

Victoria Line, Central Line
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099218210

Millions of people travel on London's tube every day yet we usually only give our fellow passengers a cursory glance. But Maeve Binchy manages to infuse these nameless people with absorbing stories to provide an engrossing cross-section of London life. From Green Park to Brixton, from Shepherd's Bush to Chancery Lane, everyday life is not nearly as mundane as we might think! At Notting ...

Whitethorn Woods
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307265784

When a new highway is planned that will bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, the town's inhabitants are divided on whether or not the town will benefit or suffer from the construction....

Whitethorn Woods
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780752873350

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems and housing estates. But still, there are the woods, full of spiky bushes and criss-crossed with paths; and there's St Ann's Well, where gen...

Whitethorn Woods
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752882086

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly and everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories and traffic problems and housing estates. But still, there are the woods, full of spiky bushes and criss-crossed with paths; and there's St Ann's Well, where gen...