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A romantic holiday in sunny Rome; a happy marriage strong enough to last 40 years; three children, now adults, who've grown up secure in the knowledge that they know everything about their mum and dad, and each other. Except they don't. On the day of the surprise anniversary party the children ha...

After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having both fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are comp...

When a shocking news report shatters Juno Ryan's world, she suddenly finds herself without the man she loves - and with no way of getting the answers she needs. Juno flees to the enchanting Villa Naranja in Spain. The blue skies and orange groves - along with Pep, the local winemaker's handsome s...

It is spring, and the semi-preserved body of a young Jewish woman is discovered buried in the Maine woods. It is clear that she gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is engaged by the lawyer Moxie Castin to shadow the police investig...

Even now, even after all that took place between us, I can still feel how moved I am by him. Ciaran was that downy, darkening blond of a baby just leaving its infancy. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. None of it mattered in the end; what he looked like, who he was, the things he wou...

The official Decade of Commemorations will draw to a close next year and has led to an outpouring of new accounts and new understandings of Ireland’s War of Independence. This new book, adds to those shifting perspectives by telling the story of a family which was actively involved in many aspect...