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Paperback. Condition: Good. Sometimes the decisions we make can last a lifetime . . . and sometimes we cannot shake off the shackles of decisions made by others in the past. Kate Flynn has spent her whole life running away. She reckons the best decision she ever made was to leave Ireland the day after she finished school. Having seldom returned since, she would be perfectly happy if she never had to go back there. She is happy in London where she runs a successful photography gallery with her best friend Nat, though their relationship is going through a rocky patch since Nat began an affair with a married man. When Kate becomes pregnant and her partner Ben persuades her to make the trip home, she is forced to confront everything she left behind and memories of Eva, the mother she feels betrayed her. Kate finds it impossible to forgive Eva who chose to refuse cancer treatment while pregnant and died, leaving a young family motherless. Do some wounds go too deep to ever heal? Must Eva's Choice forever deny Kate real happiness? The Last Goodbye is a powerful story of love and loss, forgiveness and new beginnings - a heart-wrenching and emotional page-turner for mothers and daughters everywhere.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. PRESENT DAY DUBLINLucy Young travels to Dublin to search for her ancestor Hugh Gavin who emigrated from Dublin to Boston in 1720. She brings with her a 300- year-old diary written by the Duchess of Alden of Boden Castle, Dublin. When Lucy contacts Professor Patrick Ralley of Trinity College Dublin to donate the Alden diary to the university, she asks for his help to research Hugh Gavin's life and her family's possible connection to the castle. In their search they will uncover a secret that has lain hidden for three hundred years.DUBLIN, 1719Abigail Harton's father is a medical doctor who has used the last of his family's savings to fund a charitable hospital in the city. He has saved the lives of the wife and son of the Duke of Alden in childbirth and hopes that the Duke will provide an annuity to support his work.Meanwhile Abigail and her mother must use their considerable talent at embroidery to provide for the household, and Abigail designs an emerald-silk damask cloth for weaver Hugh Gavin. She also accepts work from Hugh's sister Mary to embroider a dress made from the cloth, which has been commissioned by Miss Elizabeth Goulding to be worn at the upcoming Duke of Alden's Ball at Boden Castle.But an event occurs at Boden Castle the night of the ball that will lie secret for the next three hundred years, until Lucy and the Professor uncover the secret of the emerald dress.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. This volume transcends boundaries, captivating multimodality scholars worldwide while offering invaluable non-Anglo perspectives through its main focus on Lithuanian public discourse. Discover the interaction between multimodal communication and (sub)cultural influences in political, advertising, and film discourse. This volume is a vade mecum for scholars and students of visual and multimodal stylistics, rhetoric, and creativity across diverse media, professionals specialising in advertisements, commercials, films etc. Discover original insights that encourage intercultural comparative research, emphasising the role of cultural context in multimodality.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. An admirable doctor in charge of a small, isolated hospital in outback Australia swaps his wife's second stillborn baby for an identical twin born to an impoverished farmer's wife who already has seven other children. Both mothers are unaware of the deception. Only one person, apart from the doctor, knows what happened, but no one believes him as he is considered to be mentally deficient. The doctor leaves for Ireland immediately afterwards so that his crime, committed on impulse, will remain undetected. The stolen twin is destined for a future of privilege as the heir to her aristocratic mother's wealth and status, while her sister in Australia faces a life of hardship and loneliness. The differing fortunes of the twins, the doctor's guilty conscience, the burden of the man who knows, the jealousy of an older sister, the fate of the mothers and the ambitions of the older generation, all combine to create conflict that compels the action forward throughout the novel until it reaches a dramatic and explosive climax. Praise for Tyringham Park 'The Last September meets Downton Abbey. Part emotional, part historical, it is all consuming - we urge you not to read it in one go' - Woman's Way 'Dark and densely plotted, this is The Thorn Birds with a dash of Du Maurier's Rebecca - brilliant' - Irish Daily Mail 'Tyringham Park is an exciting read with character stories that leave you in suspense till the end' - Bord Gais Energy Book Club 'An Irish period saga with bite. Its vindictive edginess is reminiscent of the novels of Molly Keane' - Irish Examiner 'McLoughlin spins a good yarn and the central mystery of what happened to Victoria kept me reading till the end' - Sunday Independent 'An entertaining story with great drama' - Irish Country Living 'It's great, full of villains, full of intrigue' - Monica McInerney, - The John Murray Show, RTE Radio 1 'A fantastic yet melancholic story and well worth a read' - Emma Hannigan, Author 'McLoughlin marshals the gothic suspense of Daphne Du Maurier, and the good and bad behaviour of Molly Keane's country squires and heartless mothers' - Irish Independent 'An engrossing read; you'll burn the dinner while you're reading this' - LMFM 'Tyringham Park is a story set apart by its mix of flawed characters and its layered plot' - Evening Echo 'Tyringham Park is an addictive blend of the historical and romantic with chilling, gothic undertones and compelling, well drawn characters. I couldn't put it down until I'd devoured the past page' - Sarah Harte, Author.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Liam Dee's world is turned upside down when a young foreign groom is murdered at Bailey McFarlane's stables on the Curragh. Liam, a champion steeplechase jockey, is initially both witness and suspect. However, shrewd police detective Diarmuid Yeats takes a gamble on his innocence and enlists his help in the hunt for the killer. This nightmare experience exacerbates the tensions in Liam's life. He has been falling out of love with his job, his joy in racing relentlessly worn away by the struggle to keep the weight down on his six-foot frame. Is it time to quit? But McFarlane's stables houses the brilliant Patrician, a potential Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, and Liam wants to be the jockey to get him first past the finish post in the race that matters most. With emotions at pressure point, Liam falls in love with the exotic blonde Ukrainian stable girl, Lara, leaving him in an even more vulnerable position than before. Then the killer strikes again and the race to the finish post is replaced by a race for survival . . . and there is no second place.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Scott makes enemies everywhere. Powerful people want him dead. He's coming back to Ireland to finish what he started. But first, he must make it out of Marrakech alive.Jen knows Scott will come back. Every day, she waits. He almost killed her last time and, fuelled by hate and arrogance, he's not a man to ever just move on. He will kill her and he will kill her young son. But her husband and friends believe she has spiralled into paranoia.So she knows, when he returns, she'll face the psychopath alone.In this powerful thriller, Hogan plunges us into the world and mind of her psychopathic killer from the first line and relentlessly tightens the tension until the very last page.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A STORY OF ENDURING LOVE, SIBLING LOYALTY AND A SECRET PACT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME Kilbride House is set on the mystical Dingle Peninsula. Victoria Goulding, a Protestant, falls in love with Canice Meagher, born on the Blasket Islands and a Roman Catholic. To be together they must elope. Before their escape, the hand of fate plays its cards and changes their lives irrevocably. Sixty-three years later, in the leafy suburbs of New York, Edith Goulding, Victoria's sister, has died. Edith left Ireland in the winter of 1955 all those years ago, never to return. In her will she has insisted that her daughter Catherine and granddaughter Lainey visit Kilbride. Kilbride House, despite all its grandeur, holds shocking memories within its walls - memories that have slipped through the cracks of time. As the ghosts awaken the lies begin to unravel, and everything is altered. The past cannot remain untold. PRAISE FOR KILBRIDE HOUSE Sheila Forsey's stunning debut novel Kilbride House vividly evokes 1950's Ireland. Comparisons to Colm T ib n's masterpiece Brooklyn are inevitable and justified. I urge you to pick up a copy. Chris Sherry, editor, Ulster Tatler.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Scott makes enemies everywhere. Powerful people want him dead. He's coming back to Ireland to finish what he started. But first, he must make it out of Marrakech alive.Jen knows Scott will come back. Every day, she waits. He almost killed her last time and, fuelled by hate and arrogance, he's not a man to ever just move on. He will kill her and he will kill her young son. But her husband and friends believe she has spiralled into paranoia.So she knows, when he returns, she'll face the psychopath alone.In this powerful thriller, Hogan plunges us into the world and mind of her psychopathic killer from the first line and relentlessly tightens the tension until the very last page.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A STORY OF ENDURING LOVE, SIBLING LOYALTY AND A SECRET PACT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME Kilbride House is set on the mystical Dingle Peninsula. Victoria Goulding, a Protestant, falls in love with Canice Meagher, born on the Blasket Islands and a Roman Catholic. To be together they must elope. Before their escape, the hand of fate plays its cards and changes their lives irrevocably. Sixty-three years later, in the leafy suburbs of New York, Edith Goulding, Victoria's sister, has died. Edith left Ireland in the winter of 1955 all those years ago, never to return. In her will she has insisted that her daughter Catherine and granddaughter Lainey visit Kilbride. Kilbride House, despite all its grandeur, holds shocking memories within its walls - memories that have slipped through the cracks of time. As the ghosts awaken the lies begin to unravel, and everything is altered. The past cannot remain untold. PRAISE FOR KILBRIDE HOUSE Sheila Forsey's stunning debut novel Kilbride House vividly evokes 1950's Ireland. Comparisons to Colm T ib n's masterpiece Brooklyn are inevitable and justified. I urge you to pick up a copy. Chris Sherry, editor, Ulster Tatler.…

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