Sarah Webb

Life isn’t looking too rosy for Alice Devine. She’s a single mum, and needs a well-paid job fast, because as much as she loves her sister, Hilda, she hadn’t planned on living with her. Added to that, her love life has been a disaster and she’s beginning to wonder if she’ll ever find the man of her dreams. Things suddenly start to look up when she lands the job as assistant fund raiser for St Jude’s Maternity Hospital – particularly when she meets her new boss, the gorgeous but enigmatic Jack Wiseheart. What she hadn’t bargained for was also acting as general dogsbody to the terrifying and wealthy Maud Hamilton-O’Connor, Chair of the Fundraising Committee and her side-kick, Koo. Nothing is ever as it seems, however, and it’s not only the women who have their secrets. When the cracks start to appear, they all realize in their different ways that they have to face the truth before they can get on with their lives. 'Chicklit at its best . . . this is one to savour' Irish Independent

Pandora Schuster is about to turn thirty but that’s the least of her worries. In Dublin she has just been tested for a hereditary family illness and, expecting the worst, is desperate for her ex-boyfriend and father of nine-year-old Iris to be a part of her daughter’s life. There are two major problems: Olivier Huppert lives in Paris and he has no idea that Iris even exists. So when Pandora secretly tries to find Olivier during her Parisian birthday weekend, it all ends in disaster. As the agonising weeks until her test results crawl by, Pandora manages to find some distraction with her kind and sensible boyfriend, Declan, and with her fellow Shoestring Club members as they time-share a fabulous new designer dress. Yet matters of the heart are not easily forgotten and Pandora is determined for Iris to know the truth about her handsome, charismatic father. So she creates a memory box filled with photos, letters and mementoes of the magical time she spent with Olivier in Paris. But when the past and the present start to collide Pandora finds herself having to choose between her head and her heart . . .

Molly Harper is the manager of Ireland's only dedicated romance bookshop - 'Happily Ever After'. She can't stand Milo Jones, the super-smooth new owner but he does have a rather attractive son, Sam. When Milo decides he wants to change the bookshop into a highbrow literary one, Molly, with the help of her friends, must fight back if she wants to save the store. Her best friend, Paige Brady, local County Councillor and member of the popular 'Happily Ever After Book Club' has problems of her own. She has just launched a general election campaign and is astonished when another woman, Annette Higgins, starts to attack her in a very personal way. But Paige is determined to stay in the race. Can you judge a man by the shoes they wear? Kate Bowan, another Book Club afficionado, and Molly's housemate thinks so. Shop assistant in the trendy Burnaby designer shoe shop, 'Baroque' by day, she runs the popular dummy dating service 'Test-Crash Dates' by night. But one particular client is proving to be more than a handful. In the Irish village of Burnaby, life is about to change for three very different women.

Amy's life is not working out the way she always dreamed it would. She's about to turn the dreaded 3-0, her career is going nowhere fast and her love life is not exactly flourishing. To make matters worse, while things are falling apart for Amy, they seem to be coming together for everyone else in her life . . . Visiting her friend, Jodie, Amy finds that she and Jack, the man she once thought she might marry, have spent the night together. Her younger sister Suzi has just arrived home with her 'Golden Delicious' Australian fiance in tow, and announced their May wedding. And now Amy discovers that her best friend Beth is also planning on tying the knot, and Amy is asked to be bridesmaid. With a sinking heart, she remembers that old saying: always the bridesmaid, never the bride . . . Surely it can't be true? 'A real girlie page-turner that keeps you amused, entertained and guessing until the final page' Belfast Telegraph 'A rollicking hilarious romance. Definitely one to carry on to the plane' RTE Guide

The school play was Noah’s Ark and Emma wanted to be a dog. But the teacher said she was to be a penguin. A penguin! Emma was not pleased. But being a penguin turned out to be good fun, really. Panda 38

Exciting and engaging material supports key themes from the new Programme of Study. Differentiated, colour-coded tasks offer well-structured progression to motivate every pupil. A clear focus on chronology and a greater balance of British, European and World History increases the relevance of the subject to the current generation of pupils. All four required periods are covered - the medieval, early modern, industrial and 20th century – to ensure your pupils receive a complete grounding in history.

Romance bookshop manager Molly finds herself inadvertently attracted to the son of her store's insufferable new owner, while political candidate Paige struggles with a personal smear campaign, and Kate runs an online dating site until one client proves problematic. By the author of Always the Bridesmaid. Original. 25,000 first printing.

It's bad enough when your love life is going nowhere fast -- it's worse when everyone else's is soaring That's the personal tragedy that appears to have befallen Amy O'Sullivan, asshe careens toward the "Big Three-O" with what she laughingly refers to as a "career" at a dead end. Amy's little sister has come home with her "Golden Delicious" Australian fianc in tow. Amy's girlfriend Beth is also planning on tying the knot with her own Mr. Right in the near future. And another "friend" has just slept with the man Amy figured she herself might end up marrying So what's a perennial bridesmaid to do . . . after she's spent more than enough time and energy lying in bed, wallowing in self-pity? Why, move on, of course She's needed (sort of) at the bookstore where, as"Story Princess," she's expected to enliven young lives, even as her own sinks deeper in the mire. Then again, perhaps there are actual Prince Charmings out there in the real world. And a pitiful princess never knows what -- or who -- is going to come walking in the door holding the hand of an eager little girl . . .