Quentins Wonderful characters and Maeve Binchy’s inimitable storytelling talent. Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Dublin restaurant that has captured the spirit of a generation and a city in the years it has been … Read More
Minding Frankie 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 … Read More
A Week in Winter A mesmerising book set on the west coast of Ireland. The Sheedy sisters had lived in Stone House for as long as anyone could remember. Set high on the cliffs on the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean, it was falling into disrepair – until one woman, with … Read More
Heart and Soul Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem during the usually turbulent teens. Now 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 … Read More
Whitethorn Woods The people of Rossmore, each with their own story, wait for the great road of progress… Everything is changing in Rossmore. No longer a sleepy Irish town, where young people leave to travel the world; nowadays it’s a prosperous place, so busy that a new bypass has been proposed. The people of Rossmore … Read More
Nights of Rain and Stars One summer. Four strangers. A tragedy that will change their lives… 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 … Read More
Scarlet Feather Drama, humour, warmth and wonderful characters – vintage Binchy. 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 … Read More
Tara Road Two women – one Irish, one American – exchange homes for the summer; their unlikely and touching friendship unveils secrets and changes lives. Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine have never met. Their lives have almost nothing in common. Ria lives in a big ramshackle house in Tara Road, Dublin, which is filled day … Read More
Evening Class A group of people, all looking for something more in their lives, and all they have in common is their Italian evening class… 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 … Read More
The Copper Beech An old copper beech overlooks a school, and witnesses all the hopes and loves, dreams and ambitions of the children who grew up there… 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. They have … Read More
Circle of Friends An enchanting novel of fierce loyalty and love in changing times. Big, soft-featured Benny, an adored only daughter, and Eve, the little bird-like orphan brought up by the nuns, are best friends in the small Irish town of Knockglen. On their first day at University College, Dublin, an accident brings the pair … Read More
Silver Wedding 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 … Read More
The Glass Lake A tangled, touching story of love, loss and misunderstanding. To the outsider Kit McMahon, growing up in the lakeside village of Lough Glass, leads a charmed life. She is the loved daughter of Martin McMahon, the kindly local pharmacist, and Helen, his beautiful wife. She has a little brother Emmet, a best … Read More
Firefly Summer Kate and John Ryan, of Ryan’s Licensed Premises have four children, of which the eldest are Michael and Dara, twelve-year-old twins. The small town in which these children are growing up is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood and adolescence, where in long hot summers Dara and Michael Ryan … Read More
The Lilac Bus 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. Disparate characters, who embark at an anonymous pick-up point, each one has an inner life unknown to his or her … Read More
Echoes 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. Castlebay, in winter empty and grey with wind and sea spray, becomes all bustle and colour in the gaudy days of summer – … Read More
Light a Penny Candle Writing with warmth, wit and great compassion, Maeve Binchy tells a magnificent story of the lives and loves of two women, bound together in a friendship that nothing could tear asunder – not even the man who threatened to come between them forever. Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, Elizabeth is sent to … Read More