Here are 5 heartwarming tales from Maeve Binchy full of love, loss, change & reflection perfect for fans of great fiction & a greater author. Night of Rain & Stars. 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; & 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. Whitehorn Woods. 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 & friendly & everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories & traffic problems & housing estates. But still, there are the woods, full of spiky bushes & criss-crossed with paths; & there's St Ann's Well, 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 fuss about the plans for the new motorway. It's going to by-pass Rossmore, cutting through Whitethorn Woods & endangering the well itself. The new road will bring jobs & relieve traffic in the town; for others, it will destroy businesses & leave the town a backwater. The people of Rossmore are divided. There is a lot of land standing in the way of the great road of progress. Quite by accident the decision rests on Neddy Nolan
- the most honest man in Rossmore. A man determined to do the right thing. 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 for the varied hopes & dreams of teacher & 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 spendthrift Lizzie at his side & Fran to make sure that young Kathy finds her way out from behind the kitchen sink. The key to their success lies with the Signora. Her passion has drawn her from Ireland to Italy & back home again with a burning desire to share her love of all things Italian
- & a secret hidden in her heart.. . This Year It Will Be Different. There are step-families grappling with exes; long-married couples faced with in-law problems; a wandering husband choosing between the other woman & his wife; a child caught up in a grown-up tug-of-war... The Return Journey. A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man & a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travellers pick up each other's bags, & then learn when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life. Approx size is 18cm x 11.3cm x 10.6cm


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Stateless & destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself & her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once cherished for herself; dreams cruelly snatched from her by the war & its terrible aftermath. But 1960s Pontypridd is a place of opportunity
- at twenty-one, Magda's daughter has beauty, confidence & prospects beyond even her mother's wildest imaginings. With a university degree behind her, a coveted teaching post in her old Grammar school, & marriage to the love of her life, Dr Eddie John, the son of an old Pontypridd family to look forward to, Helena couldn't have been happier. Until tragedy strikes. A tragedy that robs Helena of the only family she has ever known & everything she has ever believed in; Helena uncovers a bitter secret, so explosive that her mother carried it to the grave.
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Dozens of inventive ways to use rubber stamps, inks, papers, & festive embellishments to great effect from Magenta, the world-renowned paper craft company. Techniques include: ghost stamping, colouring & embossing, making paper beads, die-cut windows, pieced paper, Bargello, swivel panel card, layered Peel Off ...

When most of Maggie Jordans family are killed in a freak flood in the small coastal village of Heymouth, she is forced to find work in one of Glasgows carpet mills.

She becomes engaged to Nevil Sanderson, who suddenly decides he must go to Spain & join the Republicans in their fight against Franco.

Although she struggles on without him, Maggie eventually realises her place is by his side & journeys to Spain to join him. But the newly promoted Nevil has become distant & ruthless, & is fiercely jealous of her new friendship with American journalist Howard Taft.

Years later, married & with an eight-year-old daughter, Maggie has returned to Glasgow. Astonished when Howard reappears, bringing light & laughter back into her life, she is forced to take decisions
- decisions which threaten to destroy even the vibrant & courageous Maggie Jordan.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780751573589
• Author: Emma Blair
• Publisher: Little Brown
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 512
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3cm














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Maggie May has had a difficult start. Born in the slums of Liverpool at the end of Queen Victoria's reign, she has to contend with a drunken father who hates her for not being a boy, the fear of violence from her father's criminal associates, & the grinding poverty of their circumstances. Worst of all, she must come to terms with the early death of her beloved mother. & she must bear the shame of her name, a name given to her by her father out of sheer spite
- the name of the city's most notorious prostitute. Left to raise her younger brother, Maggie escapes to the countryside. She builds a new, idyllic life for them both, but her happiness is to be short-lived. Fate is to draw her back to Liverpool & to a man who will bring her heartbreak
- & the greatest happiness she will ever know.

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When Maggie goes to the zoo, she wants to see tigers & camels, but most of all she wants to see pink flamingos!





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A title that began as a vision the author had of five travellers riding with mysterious purpose through remote countryside. This image gives way to another
- a hanging corpse with violets stuffed in its mouth
- which leads us into a maze of beguiling paths & wrong turnings, disappearances & revelations.

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The mysterious art of magic has been a source of wonderment since before the time of Christ. This book takes us into this magical underworld to reveal the astounding stories of some of the world's greatest magicians. From the astrology of the three wise men to Harry Houdini's escapology, it illustrates the changing perceptions of magic. ...

Suitable for readers who are growing in confidence & are beginning to enjoy longer stories, this book tells the story about a boy who hates having to choose, Green shirt or blue shirt? Feeding the ducks or going on the swings? It also gives a strange object that might just be the answer to his problem. ...

In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac & the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment & a bit of cheap dope. This work retraces the path of the once well-worn 'hippie trail' from Turkey to Iran, Afghanistan to Pakistan, & from India to Nepal. ...