Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-385-31581-4
In her latest engaging novel, prolific Irish author Binchy returns to the notion of sea change, addressed in her early work Light a Penny Candle (1983), which chronicled the story of an English girl during WWII who goes to live in Ireland. Here, two
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Maeve Binchy, Author . Dutton $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-94682-3
Fans of the bestselling Binchy will be grateful that the basic formula is still intact—decent people pulling through hard times—and that some favorite characters from previous novels reappear: Cathy Scarlet from Scarlet Feather, Nora...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (601p) ISBN 978-0-440-50017-9
Binchy's latest novel (after Light a Penny Candle ) is set in the tiny Irish backwater of Mountfern, home to a handful of families and typical of hundreds of similar hamlets in the British Isles where life is lived to the rhythm of the seasons....
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (584p) ISBN 978-0-385-31354-4
Bestselling novelist Binchy (Light a Penny Candle; Silver Wedding) again explores the passions and priorities of Irish women in a seductively written tale that's a bona fide page-turner. She sets this story in the small village of Lough Glass, the ``
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Maeve Binchy, Author Viking Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80938-7
The bracing sea air brings little pleasure to the year-round residents of Castlebay, a village on the coast of Ireland, where class lines are strictly observed and morals publicly monitored. The youngest daughter of a shopkeeper whose meagre living...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $17.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-385-29826-1
The arrangements for celebrating Desmond and Deirdre Doyle's forthcoming silver wedding anniversary fall to Anna, their eldest daughter, who works in a pretentious London bookshop. Anna proceeds to make a list of guests, most important of whom,...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-30494-8
In the first eight interrelated stories of the dozen that comprise her new collection, Binchy ( Circle of Friends ) introduces eight people who travel on a lilac-colored bus from Dublin every Friday night to spend the weekend in their hometown,...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $22.5 (345p) ISBN 978-0-385-30775-8
Binchy ( Circle of Friends ; The Lilac Bus ) is a consummate storyteller with a unique ability to draw readers into her tales of Irish life. Here again she mines sources rich in plot and character to produce a captivating narrative. The eponymous...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-31506-7
Not without reason is Binchy (Evening Class; Circle of Friends) most popular for her novels, as this unimpressive collection of short stories linked by the theme of travel-and-learn indicates. Although the time is now and the place usually Dublin,...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (768p) ISBN 978-0-440-22159-3
Irish novelist Binchy's latest saga of family loyalties and secrets spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Apr.)
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Maeve Binchy. Knopf, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-27357-4
This less-than-thrilling final work (after Minding Frankie) in the late Irish novelist’s prolific oeuvre tells the life stories of a cast of characters that show up for a week’s stay at a bed and breakfast called Stone House. The house is located in
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Maeve Binchy. Knopf, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-35185-0
This posthumously published collection of stories revolving around an imaginary street in Dublin was written by Binchy (A Week in Winter) over a period of decades, and approved by her husband, writer Gordon Snell. The earlier stories are more...
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Maeve Binchy, edited by Róisín Ingle. Knopf, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-35345-8
Binchy’s trademark warmth, humor, and humanity characterize this volume, which collects five decades of her reporting for the Irish Times (1960s–2000s). The wide-ranging topics reveal a journalist far more interested in people than places or events,
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Maeve Binchy, Author . Dutton $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-94754-7
Four strangers cross paths in a tiny Greek seaside village in this thin but engaging new novel by bestselling Binchy (Quentins
; Circle of Friends
). When tragedy strikes the smalltown of Aghia Anna in the form of a devastating fire on a tourist...
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Maeve Binchy, Author , read by Terry Donnelly. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-280098-0
Binchy's latest work (after Quentins
) would present a challenge to any narrator; the large cast of characters includes tourists from all over the globe who meet and become friends after witnessing a tragic accident in a tiny Greek village. But...
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Maeve Binchy, Author . Knopf $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-26578-4
A proposed highway near the Irish town of Rossmore will mean the destruction of St. Ann's Well, a shrine in Whitethorn Woods thought to deliver healing, husbands and other miracles. The shrine resides in the parish of Fr. Brian Flynn, curate of...
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Maeve Binchy, Author . Knopf $26.95 (417p) ISBN 978-0-307-26579-1
Binchy delivers another delightful Binchyesque amalgamation of intersecting lives, this time centering on Clara Casey, a cardiologist whose marriage and career have fallen apart. After she accepts an undesirable post at St. Brigid's Hospital,...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-30149-7
The charm of Binchy's novels ( Silver Wedding ; Light a Penny Candle ) lies in a seductive readability that draws one through hundreds of pages as surely as a mackerel at the end of a hooked line--contrived plot thickeners and stock characters...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-31503-6
That Binchy (Circle of Friends) would choose to enter the Christmas market should not be a surprise. Her wide audience enjoys the warmth of her fiction, the emphasis on the power of love to transform ordinary lives--even as she acknowledges that for
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Maeve Binchy, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-31807-5
A banker with a spendthrift girlfriend; a studious teenager with an overprotective older sister; a thug looking to go straight while needing a place to stash illegal goods--the lives of these and many other Dubliners are touched by Signora, nee Nora
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Maeve Binchy, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (608p) ISBN 978-0-440-21126-6
Loyal friends Benny and Eve, young women who grew up together in an Irish village, find their relationship tested by the new friendships, romances and opportunities that develop at a Dublin university. According to PW , Binchy's characters have ``a...
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Maeve Binchy, Author Dutton $25.95 (538p) ISBN 978-0-525-94593-2
Bestselling author Binchy (Tara Road, etc.) again explores the depths of family relationships in an 11th warm, involving drama. Set in contemporary Ireland over a period of one year, the smartly paced tale focuses on Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather,...
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Maeve Binchy, Knopf, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-3072-7356-7
Bestseller Binchy is a national treasure in her homeland of Ireland, and her latest novel is a perfect illustration of why. Old-fashioned and newfangled are totally compatible in contemporary Dublin, where lonely, hard-drinking slacker Noel Lynch...
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