The American Girl

Three couples. One weekend. Everything is about to change.Lily and Charlie have separated after twenty-six years of marriage. Now, with their divorce due to come through in a matter of months and her wedding to the dependable Joe imminent, Lily decides to get thefamily together for one last weekend in Land's End, their old summer home by the sea. Lily has to break some news to Charlie, her daughter Polly and son Thomas - news she knows they're not going to be happy about.But as the family make their way to Land's End with their new partners, Lily's best laid plans are about to go awry.As Charlie's much younger girlfriend Chloe guards her own secret, Polly seems intent on sabotaging her seemingly perfect relationship, while Thomas wrestles with a decision he knows could break his family apart.And amid all the drama, they've all forgotten that this weekend also just happens to be Lily and Charlie's wedding anniversary ...Will all the couples survive the weekend intact?

From bestselling author Maria Duffy, In Search of Us is a story about sisters, friendship and bonds that never break.Twin sisters Ronnie and Elizabeth couldn't be more different.Happily living with her boyfriend Al, Ronnie loves her job in an antique jewellery shop - the only thing that's missing is the baby she's desperate to have.While wealthy, glamorous Elizabeth, owner of a thriving recruitment company in Dublin, is married to the equally successful Nathan - having a baby couldn't be further down her list of priorities.But when their mother Belinda passes away, she reveals a secret about the twins' father which changes everything. As Ronnie and Elizabeth travels to New York to find out more about the man they never knew, it turns out that their mother has a few more surprises in store for them. Will the sisters finally discover that they have more in common than they think?

Will wishes come true this holiday season? Find out in the sparkling new festive novel from No.1 bestselling author Deirdre Purcell...It is almost Christmas on the Santa Clara cruise liner, and as the ship sets sail from Barcelona for the last time, dramas big and small are to unfold. On board is Kitty Golden, beautiful ex-model and wife of New York financier Saul Abelson, some 25 years her senior. They look the picture of cool contentment, but looks can be deceiving.Dubliner Mary Dunne is on board with no less than eight members of her boisterous Irish family, intent on celebration. For Mary, though, a long-hidden past brings its own twist...And wide-eyed young novelist Roxy Smith is intent on observing all in a bid to find story for that difficult second novel - until she too gets caught up in the action.With handsome Captain Leifsson in firm command of the ship, if not his heart, who knows what the journey's end will bring. The Christmas Voyage is a seasonal story of high drama, romance and extraordinary outcomes.

One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with therapy began to dissolve.Here, in On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist, Harding examines the search for meaning in life which keeps him fastened to the idea of god.After many therapy sessions focused on an effort to uncover personal truth, and long solitary months on the road with a one man show, Harding is finally led to an artists' retreat in the shadow of Skellig Michael.Mixing stories from the road with dispatches from his Irish Times columns, On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist is a spell-binding and powerful book about the human condition, the narratives we weave around the self, and the ultimate bliss of living in the present moment.'What happens between one story and the next? That's the really interesting part. That's the space where we find bliss; where we float sometimes, suspended, and only for a brief moment. Perhaps only for a few scarce moments in an entire life.'

Beautiful, wealthy and glamorous - Carrie, Jay and Olwen have it all. But beneath the surface, cracks are beginning to show...Carrie wrestles with the decision to finally divorce her philandering husband, Rob, who can play her like a cat does a mouse. But can she live without him? Jay is married to one of the country's richest men, but as she struggles to hold on she discovers that maybe she's made the biggest mistake of all...Olwen is torn between her love for Rob, and the accompanying guilt - but doesn't true love conquer all?When Carrie's supermodel daughter, Ali, chooses the glamorous yacht Excalibur to hold her glittering wedding, a tangled web of emotions and intrigue begins to unravel, threatening everything these women hold dear.From the fleshpots of Puerto Banus to the mansions of Marbella's Golden Mile, Carrie, Jay and Olwen are forced to discover - when your world is about to be blown apart, the only person you can rely on is yourself.