' Tis the season to be jolly except single Dubliner Jenny Breslin is feeling something a little closer to gloomy. Everything about her life
- her boring job at the bank the complete lack of romance
- has been untouched by holiday magic & she dreads the thought of spending yet another festive season with her larger-than-life mother & her new boyfriend. Thank God for Twitter a place where there are always people ready & waiting to have a chat. She's even managed to make a couple of genuine friends there even though she's never met them IRL (that's ' In Real Life' by the way). ' So who's on for a few days in Dublin? Would love to meet you all in person. I have a spare room in my house'
- this drunken tweet to her Twitter pals changes Jenny's life forever. Before she knows it she's counting down to a Christmas visit from London-native Zahra Burns make-up artist to the stars; Fiona Lee a stay-at-home mum from Galway & nurse Kerry (the Twitter buddy Jenny feels closest to). Suddenly Jenny becomes aware of how her life will appear to these strangers. In a word: Boring. It's easy enough to pretend that you're an exciting & sophisticated person when nobody can see you but now Jenny's worried about being caught out in the occasional lies that she's told. All the more incentive to change her life for the better! But once her pals arrive Jenny finds herself pining for the past & wondering if people are ever who they claim to be.


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It's not that you can't do it; you just don't want to do it! We all try & wriggle out of boring chores like washing up or taking the rubbish out but what about the bigger things like going to work & being a proper responsible grown-up? Indulge the big kid in you & arm yourself with this indispensible guide to shirking! ...

Any Human Heart" is William's Boyd's classic bestselling novel
- now a major Channel 4 drama. Every life is both ordinary & extraordinary
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Hey pretty lady havent we met? Yes beautiful thirty-something Autumn Haven has definitely met hockey-superstar Sam Le Claire before. Several years ago she had a passionate Vegas-inspired fling with him involving getting hitched in an Elvis-themed wedding chapel & ending with her waking up in a hotel room: alone heartbroken...and pregnant. So these days reminding her ex-husband that she even exists isnt high on Autumns to-do list. But they have a child Conner & suddenly Sam claims to have grown up wanting to be more involved with his son. & handsome drop-dead sexy Sam always gets what he wants. Being a good dad to Conner is one thing but to her horror Autumn realises she still finds it practically impossible to be around Sam without falling for his charms once again. & thats the last thing she wants...isnt it? Sexy funny unputdownable
- theres no one quite like Rachel Gibson.
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Sheila Malory has her reservations when she is asked to research the history of the village of Mere Barton as it brings her into close contact with miserly Annie Roberts a controlling woman whos much resented by her fellow villagers. Not even the local rector has a good word to say about her. When Annie suffers a fatal bout of self-inflicted food poisoning there is more relief than grief around the village. However as Sheila continues to work on the local history she begins to wonder if Annies death was as accidental as it first seemed? An intriguing mystery containing a tangled web of guilt & deceit Any Mans Death" will enthrall armchair detectives everywhere." ...

Rachel & Kirsty are thrilled to be spending the week at Golden Palace
- where real kings & queens once lived! Whilst they are settling
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Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the Forever" part... Of all the things Anya expected to find atthe bottom of an old well a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family self-conscious about her body & she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend--even a ghost--is just what she needs. Or so she thinks. Spooky sardonic & secretly sincere " Anya's Ghost "is a wonderfully entertaining debut from author/artist Vera Brosgol. " Anya's Ghost" is a 2011 " Kirkus" Best Teen Books of the Year title. One of " School Library Journal"'s Best Fiction Books of 2011. One of " Horn Book"'s Best Fiction Books of 2011." ...

I had to go back to New York & try to find him. There was a chance he mightnt be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasnt here. Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Shes covered in bandages & shes lying in her parents Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin & getting back to New York. To her friends. To The Most Fabulous Job in the World. & most of all back to her husband Aiden. But her family have other ideas (not to mention the usual problems that beset the Walsh sisters). & Aiden for some reason seems unwilling to get in touch. What happened to Anna to send her so far from all that she loves? & what happened to her marriage that her husband wont talk to her? ...

I had to go back to New York & try to find him. There was a chance he mightnt be there but I had to give it a go because there was one thing I was certain of: he wasnt here. Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Shes covered in bandages & shes lying in her parents Good Front Room dreaming of leaving Dublin & getting back to New York. To her friends. To the most fabulous job in the world. & most of all back to her husband Aiden. But her family have other ideas (not to mention the usual problems that beset the Walsh sisters). & Aiden for some reason seems unwilling to get in touch. What happened to Anna to send her so far from all that she loves? & what happened to her marriage that her husband wont talk to her? ...

At 30 Duncan Bannatyne had no money & was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of someone who had made himself a millionaire & decided to do the same. Five years later he had done it & now he is worth GBP168 million. In this remarkable book Bannatyne relives his colourful path to riches from ice cream salesman to multi-millionaire explaining how anyone could take the same route as he did
- if they really want to. Hugely articulate & with numerous fascinating & revealing stories to tell this is an autobiography & a business book unlike any other
- but then Bannatyne isn't like any other businessman either.

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