Maeve Binchy

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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....

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

The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character and charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small and friendly....

In Homecoming, read by Sean Campion, the Brennans run Quentin's restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit?....

As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear they what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives'....

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

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....

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

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate... senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with - and now her ex-husband wants something from her....

When Danny Lynch tells his wife Ria that he has a young pregnant mistress, Ria thinks that her world has ended....

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

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....