Maeve Binchy

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....

Ria and Marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean....

Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, a place where nothing changes - until the day Kit's mother disappears and Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming down her face.... 

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin....

This is the story of two very different children growing up in a small Irish seaside town in the 50s and 60s....

As a child, Elizabeth was sent from her war-torn, rather loveless home in London to stay with a big, boisterous family in a small town in Ireland....

In the summer of 1962, an American millionaire arrives in a small, sleepy Irish town with far-reaching consequences....

In the small Irish town of Knockglen, best friends Bernadette ('Benny') and Eve are inseparable. Benny is an adored only child, and Eve, a poor, birdlike orphan brought up by nuns....

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....

In a Greek tavern, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time....

Every Friday night, the same seven Dublin workers meet to travel home in Tom Fitzgerald's lilac-coloured minibus....

A Few of the Girls is a glorious collection of the very best of her writing, full of the warmth, charm and humour that has always been an essential part of all of Maeve's writing....

High on the cliffs of the west coast of Ireland, overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean, is Stone House....

By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches....

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....

Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a thousand stories to tell: tales of love, betrayal and revenge....

Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in Minding Frankie) is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchy's wonderfully compelling tales....

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters are a handful and Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with....

Everything is changing in Rossmore....

Maeve Binchy's classic collection of short stories was first published in 2003. This edition includes seven new stories....