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Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes
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Marian Keyes is one of the msot successful irish novelists of all time. Though she was bought up in a home where a lot of oral story-telling went on, it never occurred to her that she could write. Instead she studies law and accountancy and finally started writing short stories in 1993 "out of the blue". Though she never had any intention of writing a novel ("it would take too long")she sent her short stories to a publisher, with a letter saying she'd started work on a novel. The publishers replied, asking to see the novel, and once her panic subsided, she began to write what subsequently became her first novel, Watermelon.

She was born in Limerick in 1963, and brought up in Cavan, Cork, Galway and Dublin; she spent her twenties in London, but is now living in D n Laoghaire with her husband Tony. She includes among her hobbies, reading, movies, shoes, handbags and feminism.

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The Other Side Of The Story by Marian Keyes

The Other Side Of The Story
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718146375
RRP: $29.95
QBD: $9.99

Energetic, ambitious, and sexy, Jojo Harvey is a literary agent whose star is on the rise. In love with both her married boss and her burgeoning career, not much distracts her. Until she finds herself representing two women who used to be best friends. Tall, slender, and blond, bestselling author Lily Wright, one of Jojo's clients, worries about bad karma and the second novel she can't se...

Angels by Marian Keyes

Angels
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958537
RRP: $19.99

'I'd always lived a fairly blameless life. Up until the day I left my husband and ran away to Hollywood . . . 'Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. At thirty-three she has a proper job, is happily married to Garv and never puts a foot wrong. So why does she make a bolt for Hollywood and her best friend, Emily?In the City of Angels, Maggie gets t...

Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes

Anybody Out There
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958575
RRP: $19.99

'I had to go back to New York and try to find him. There was a chance he mightn't be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasn't here.'Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. She's covered in bandages and she's lying in her parents' Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin and getting back to New York. To her friends. To The Most ...

Further Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes

Further Under the Duvet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241959138
RRP: $19.99

Slide Further Under the Duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you've never been before . . . .Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and To...

Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes

Last Chance Saloon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958568
RRP: $19.99

Bestselling Irish author Marian Keyes has created yet another group of unforgettable characters in this irresistibly funny and uplifting tale of the search for happiness and the unpredictability of fate. Tara, Katherine and Fintan, best friends since their Duran Duran-dominated teenage years in County Clare, are now in their thirties and living in London. So far Fintan is the only one to have foun...

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes

Rachel's Holiday
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958544
RRP: $19.99

'How did it end up like this? Twenty-seven, unemployed, mistaken for a drug addict, in a treatment centre in the back arse of nowhere with an empty Valium bottle in my knickers . . .'Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the cash for a spell in Cloisters - Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford Clinic. She&...

Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes

Sushi for Beginners
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958582
RRP: $19.99

Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy, Lisa's super-organized assistant, worries about everything from her lack of waist to the lack of men in her life. She's even anxious about a little bit of raw fish . . . Clodagh Kelly is Ashling's best f...

The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes

The Brightest Star in the Sky
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718197339
RRP: $19.99

June the first, a bright summer's evening, a Monday . . . And into the busy, bustling homes at 66 Star Street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. As the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of No 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live, no one suspects the visitor patiently waiting in the wings. For soon, really very soon, everything is...

The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes

The Other Side of the Story
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958551
RRP: $19.99

The agent Jojo, a high-flying literary agent on the up, has just made a very bad career move: she's jumped into bed with her married boss, Mark . . . .The bestseller Jojo's sweet-natured client Lily's first novel is a roaring success. She and lover Anton celebrate by spending the advance for her second book. Then she gets writer's block . . . The unknown Gemma used to be Lily's...

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

This Charming Man
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241958599
RRP: $19.99

Lola has just found out that her boyfriend - charismatic politician Paddy de Courcy - is getting married. To someone else. Heartbroken, Lola flees the city for a cottage by the sea. But will Lola's retreat prove as idyllic as she hopes? Journalist Grace wants the inside story on Paddy de Courcy's engagement and thinks Lola holds the key to it. Grace knew Paddy a long time ago. But why can&...

Under The Duvet by Marian Keyes

Under The Duvet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241959114
RRP: $19.99

'When people ask me what I do for a crust and I tell them that I'm a novelist, they immediately assume that my life is a non-stop carousel of limos, television appearances, hair-dos, devoted fans, stalkers and all the glitzy paraphernalia of being a public figure. It's time to set the record straight. I write alone, in a darkened bedroom, wearing my PJs, eating bananas, my laptop on a ...

Saved by Cake by Marian Keyes

Saved by Cake
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718158897
RRP: $29.95

Learn to bake with Britain's favourite women's fiction author, Marian Keyes Saved by Cake gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression, and how baking has helped her. A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it - she realized that baking was what she needed to do in order to get her through each day....

Watermelon by Marian Keyes

Watermelon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099489986
RRP: $19.95

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Sushi For Beginners by Marian Keyes

Sushi For Beginners
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140271812
RRP: $24.95

Three women, whose lives are linked, living in one city . . . Magazine editor Lisa Edwards, shiny and hard as an M&M, thinks her life has ended when her "fabulous" new job turns out to be deportation to Dublin, launching Colleen magazine. If it weren't for the decorative presence of her new boss, the dishevelled and moody Jack Devine, she might just turn on her Prada heel and tak...



The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes

The Brightest Star in the Sky
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143118497
RRP: $20.95

Seven neighbors in a Dublin townhouse find their lives entangled by the visitation of a sassy and prescient spirit that causes them to rethink their relationships, careers, and values....

The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes

The Brightest Star in the Sky
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670021406
RRP: $34.95

Seven neighbors in a Dublin townhouse find their lives entangled by the visitation of a sassy and prescient spirit that causes them to rethink their relationships, careers and values. By the best-selling author of This Charming Man....

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

This Charming Man
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061124044
RRP: $19.95

A tale told from the viewpoints of four different women traces their experiences of heartbreak at the hands of up-and-coming Dublin politician Paddy de Courcy, a charismatic womanizer who hides the truth about his fickle nature. Reprint. 75,000 first printing....

Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

Anybody Out There?
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061240850
RRP: $19.95

When Anna Walsh--who has a perfect job, life, and husband in Manhattan--wakes up in her family's house in Dublin badly injured and with no memory of what has happened, she returns to New York to find clues to her memory loss and the disappearance of her husband. Reprint. 75,000 first printing....

The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes

The Other Side of the Story
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060731489
RRP: $19.95

The best-selling author of Sushi for Beginners and Under the Duvet places her latest novel in the modern publishing world and considers the joys and vagaries of career, karma, and love. Reprint....

Cracks In My Foundation by Marian Keyes

Cracks In My Foundation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060787035
RRP: $16.95

A follow-up to Under the Duvet combines essays on such topics as breaking off relations with a hairdresser, turning forty, and feminism with a selection of original short fictional tales. By the author of Sushi for Beginners. Original. 35,000 first printing....

Sushi For Beginners by Marian Keyes

Sushi For Beginners
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060555955
RRP: $19.95

The lives of three women in the fashion magazine industry are depicted with humor, integrity, and charm as their daily lives display the trials and tribulations, as well as the happiness and joy, of true friends, in today's fast-paced world of love and career. Reprint. 75,000 first printing....

Angels by Marian Keyes

Angels
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060512149
RRP: $19.95

A third installment in the series that began with Watermelon and Rachel's Holiday focuses on the Walsh family's "good girl," Margaret, whose well-organized world unravels after changes in her career and marriage, prompting her to flee to Los Angeles. Reprint....

Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes

Under the Duvet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060562083
RRP: $16.95

A collection of personal essays presents the author's reflections on life, in-laws, weight loss, driving lessons, shopping, writing, motherhood, and other whimsical calamities of life....

Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes

Last Chance Saloon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060086244
RRP: $19.95

Thirtysomething best friends Tara and Katherine are losers in the field of true lasting love, until their mutual friend Fintan forces them to make a life-changing promise--Katherine must give up her monogamous relationship with her remote control, and Tar must abandon the boyfriend who treats her like dirt. Reprint. 60,000 first printing....

Irish Girls About Town by Marian Keyes

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....

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060090371
RRP: $19.95

When Mrs. Nolan reads her tarot cards and predicts that Lucy will be getting married within the year, Lucy Sullivan refuses to believe it, until she starts meeting a variety of charming men--including the unreliable Gus; Chuck, a handsome American; the flirtatious Daniel; and Jed, the new boy at work. Reprint....

Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes

Rachel's Holiday
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060090388
RRP: $21.95

A high-flying young Irishwoman with a penchant for recreational drugs and men in tight leather crash lands in the Cloisters, Dublin's version of the Betty Ford Clinic, where group therapy and middle-aged men in sweaters will drive her nearly out of her mind. Reprint....

Watermelon by Marian Keyes

Watermelon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780060090364
RRP: $19.95

When her husband, James, leaves her after she delivers her first child, Claire retires to her family in Dublin, where she slowly recovers from the experience, giving James a big surprise when he shows up again. A first novel. Reprint....

No Dress Rehearsal by Marian Keyes

No Dress Rehearsal
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781934848098
RRP: $15.95

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The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes

The Brightest Star in the Sky
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410424037
RRP: $59.95

The lives of seven Dublin neighbors become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their town house with the intent of changing at least one of them. But whose life will be transformed? Newlyweds Matt and Maeve, facing the first obstacle in their romance; Lydia the brassy cabbie with a passion for her flatmate; Katie the just-turned-forty PR executive; or the eldest resident Je...



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Angels by Marian Keyes

Angels
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718145132

'We will shortly be landing at Los Angeles International Airport. Please ensure your seat is in the upright position, that you weigh less than a hundred pounds and that you have excellent teeth.' Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. Sensibly. By the book. Until the day she leaves her husband and runs away to Hollywood, that is. In LA the primping,...

Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

Anybody Out There?
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141019376

Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job In The World and above all, it means her husband, Aidan. But nothing in Anna's life is that simple anymore . . . Not only is her return to Manhattan complicated...

Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

Anybody Out There?
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718147631

Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job In The World and above all, it means her husband, Aidan. But nothing in Anna's life is that simple anymore . . . Not only is her return to Manhattan complicated ...

Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

Anybody Out There?
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718149215

Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job In The World and above all, it means her husband, Aidan. But nothing in Anna's life is that simple anymore . . . Not only is her return to Manhattan complicated ...

Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes

Brightest Star in the Sky
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718149864

At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it yet . . . One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on ...

Flamingo Express: No Dress Rehearsal by Marian Keyes

Flamingo Express: No Dress Rehearsal
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780732272371

Lizzie is dead - she just hasn't realised it yet. She can't understand why everyone is ignoring her when all she wants is a little sympathy. She has been in an accident, after all. Next day at work, she meets Jan and Jim, two spirits who have been sent to break the bad news. But Lizzie is not ready to go yet. She hasn't said her goodbyes. Plus there's so much she's never done....

Further Under The Duvet by Marian Keyes

Further Under The Duvet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141021232

Places such as the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip with a difference to Bloomingdales and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-it is. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs with both make-up and Toblerone. And of course, agony aunt Mammy Walsh is on hand to solve all your problems. Hilarious and poignant, down-to-...

Further Under The Duvet by Marian Keyes

Further Under The Duvet
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718147921

Places such as the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip with a difference to Bloomingdales and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-it is. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs with both make-up and Toblerone. And of course, agony aunt Mammy Walsh is on hand to solve all your problems. Hilarious and poignant, down-to...

Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes

Last Chance Saloon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140292282

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Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749324742

Lucy Sullivan is getting married...or is she? Lucy doesn't even have a boyfriend (to be honest, Lucy isn't that lucky in love}. But Mrs Nolan has read her tarot cards and predicted that Lucy will be walking up the aisle within the year. Lucy's flatmates are appalled at the news. If Lucy leaves it could disrupt their lovely lifestyle of eating takeaways, drinking too much wine, brin...

Marian Keyes Omnibus by Marian Keyes

Marian Keyes Omnibus
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780091872878

Contains two novels 'Watermelon' and 'Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married' 'Watermelon' It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child - I mean, if he thought it was going to upset him that much he should have just stayed at home - but to rub salt into the episiotomy, he didn't even have the decency to leave h...

Postcards From The Bed by Marian Keyes

Postcards From The Bed
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141008516

'When people ask me what I do for a crust and I tell them that I'm a novelist, they immediately assume that my life is a non-stop carousel of limos, television appearances, hair-dos, devoted fans, stalkers and all the glitzy paraphernalia of being a public figure. It's time to set the record straight. I write alone, in a darkened room, wearing my PJs, eating bananas, my laptop on a p...

Sushi For Beginners by Marian Keyes

Sushi For Beginners
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718144708

Magazine editor Lisa Edwards, shiny and hard as an M&M, thinks her life has ended when her "fabulous" new job turns out to be deportation to Dublin, launching Colleen magazine. If it weren't for the decorative presence of her new boss, the dishevelled and moody Jack Devine, she might just turn on her Prada heel and take the first plane back. But she's Lisa. She doesn't d...

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

This Charming Man
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780061124020

A tale told from the viewpoints of four different women traces their experiences of heartbreak at the hands of up-and-coming Dublin politician Paddy de Courcy, a charismatic womanizer who hides the truth about his fickle nature. 100,000 first printing....

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

This Charming Man
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780718149123

'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard Paddy de Courcy was getting married' But for four women in particular, the big news about the gorgeous politician is especially momentous ... Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although she's  his girlfriend, she definitely isn't the bride-to-be. Heartbroken, s...

This Charming Man by Marian Keyes

This Charming Man
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718149130

'Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard Paddy de Courcy was getting married' But for four women in particular, the big news about the gorgeous politician is especially momentous... Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although she's his girlfriend, she definitely isn't the bride-to-be. Heartbroken, she flees the cit...

Under The Duvet by Marian Keyes

Under The Duvet
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718145309

High Heels, Movie Deals, Wagon Wheels, Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities. A real treat - the incredibly funny jottings of a best selling and much-loved author. Her books are read and adored by millions around the world - now read the collected journalism of the woman who writes them: the woman under the duvet. Marian Keyes loves shoes and her LTFs ...

Watermelon by Marian Keyes

Watermelon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749324797

It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child - I mean, if he thought it was going to upset him that much he should have just stayed at home - but to rub salt into the episiotomy, he didn't even have the decency to leave her for someone skinny! He's just absconded, leaving Claire with a newborn baby, a broken heart, two extra...



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