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Maeve Binchy |
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 Maeve Binchy was born in Co Dublin and went to school at the Holy Child Convent in Killiney. She took a history degree at UCD and taught in various girls' schools, writing travel articles in the long summer holidays. In 1969 she joined the Irish Times. For some ten years she was based in London writing humorous columns from all over the world, before returning to Ireland where she now lives with her husband, writer Gordon Snell. She is the author of several volumes of short stories: among them London Transports and Dublin 4; The Lilac Bus (which has been filmed for television), and Silver Wedding. Her novels include Light a Penny Candle, Echoes (the TV adaptation of which has been shown throughout the world), Firefly Summer, Circle of Friends, (which became a motion picture starring Chris O'Donnell and Minnie Driver), The Copper Beech, The Glass Lake, Evening Class and Tara Road (currently being filmed in Ireland and South Africa). They were followed by Aches and Pains illustrated by Wendy Shea; then came Scarlet Feather and Quentins, both of which spent many weeks on the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic. Her latest bestseller is Nights of Rain and Stars which is available now in hardcover in the US and the UK as well as in translation. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Book Awards in 1999.
For further information about Maeve Binchy, click here to visit her website. |
Whitethorn Woods |
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Everything is changing in Rossmore. No longer a sleepy Irish town; nowadays it's so busy
that a new bypass has been proposed. But the road will go right through the Whitethorn
Woods and the well dedicated to St Ann... |
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| Nights of Rain and Stars |
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Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape, meet in a Greek taverna
high above the small village of Aghia Anna. From Ireland, America, Germany and England,
they have each left their homes and their old lives, when a shocking tragedy throws them
unexpectedly together. |
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| Quentins |
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Every table at Quentins restaurant in Dublin
has a thousand stories to tell. Now Ella Brady wants to make a documentary,
but in doing so, she must confront a devastating dilemma in her own life… |
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| Scarlet Feather |
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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 please by the idea of "Scarlet
Feather" as they are. |
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| Tara Road |
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Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine have never met before they decide to exchange homes for the summer. Ria goes to
America in the hope that it will sort
out the crisis in her life that is threatening to destroy her. Marilyn goes
to Ireland to recover in peace from the tragedy which she keeps secret from
the world, little realising that Tara Road will prove to be the least quiet
place on earth. |
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| Evening Class |
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The new Italian evening
class at Mountainview School in Dublin is like hundreds of others starting
up all over the city – but this one has its own special quality... the hopes
and dreams of so many people are tied up in the twice-weekly lessons. |
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| Glass Lake |
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To the outsider Kit McMahon, growing up in the lakeside village of Lough Glass,
leads a charmed life. But Kit worries about her mother. Helen
McMahon does not fit in with the people and the ways of Lough Glass. She
wanders alone by the lake night after night – until the dark windy night
when she disappears. |
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| The Copper Beech |
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Eight children once carved
their names on the trunk of the great copper beech tree which shades the
schoolhouse in Shancarrig. Now those children are grown. For each their
hometown of Shancarrig holds special memories – some too private ever to be
told. |
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| Circle of Friends |
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Benny and Eve are best friends in the small Irish town of Knockglen. On their
first day at University College, Dublin, an accident brings the pair
together with fellow students Nan Malone and Jack Foley, and new friendships
are quickly struck. But beneath their carefree student existence, trouble is
brewing for the circle of friends. |
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| Silver Wedding |
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A unique family occasion
is looming for the Doyles. Desmond and Deirdre will have been married for
twenty-five years in October. Naturally there must be a celebration – but
who is going to arrange it? And will the right people come? It is
unthinkable not to have a party, but do Desmond and Deirdre Doyle really
want one? |
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| Firefly Summer |
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Dara and Michael Ryan and
their friends 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 it will mean for their lives when the ruins are bought by an
Irish American with a dream in his heart and a great deal of money in his
pocket. |
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| Lilac Bus |
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Every Friday
night Tom Fitzgerald’s lilac-coloured minibus is a meeting place for the
same cast of seven, who always use it to travel home from Dublin to spend
the weekend in Rathdoon. |
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| Echoes |
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Two very different children are growing up, shouting their hearts' desires into the
echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far away from the town
in which they live. |
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| Light a Penny Candle |
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Through twenty years of
friendship Aisling O’Connor and Elizabeth White’s paths will cross and
re-cross. As they face their loves, their marriages and their
disappointments, they come to realise that not all problems will be solved,
nor all wishes granted by lighting a penny candle. |
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| Short Stories | ||||
| Return Journey and Other Stories
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The Return Journey and This Year It Will Be Different are here
collected here in one volume; for Commonwealth countries only, excluding the UK, Ireland,
Australia, Canada and New Zealand. |
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| Return Journey |
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The Return Journey brings us sons and lovers, daughters and strangers, husbands and wives in
their infinite variety – powerfully compelling stories of love, loss,
revelation, and reconciliation. Not in the UK and Ireland. |
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| This Year It Will Be Different |
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The stories in This Year It Will Be Different powerfully evoke many lives, during the one
holiday when feelings cannot be easily hidden. Now available in the UK and Ireland. |
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| Dublin 4 |
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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 and a drink-ridden photographer tries to re-launch a
shattered career… In the US these stories are published in the same volume
as The Lilac Bus. |
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| Victoria Line, Central Line (London Transports) |
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Millions of people travel on London's tube every day yet we
usually give our fellow passengers only a cursory glance. But these stories
enter the lives of such nameless people with engrossing results.
Originally published as two separate volumes, Maeve's first collections are also known
as London Transports in the US.
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Non-Fiction |
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| Aches and Pains |
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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? |
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