When Rosa and Bee get together in the run-up to Bee's wedding, they reminisce about the holiday they took together as teenagers to the beautiful Greek island of Paros. They remember the sandy coves, the guest house in the converted windmill where they stayed with their friend Iona, and the gorgeous local men. As memories of that long-forgotten holiday resurface, they are forced to confront the turns their lives have taken - and the guilt they both...

The author of The Perfect Gift and the memoir All To Live For tells a story of three sisters promised letters of life advice from their grandmother upon her death who - in the event of her death - discover the letters to have gone missing.

The projector being aimed ata whiteish screen on its shoogly stand was made ready to purr, when, reel to rattling reel, the story was spun Aonghas MacNeacail, `remembering which film' This anthology of new writing on cinema is part of a three-year project on the history of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (1946-71), a mobile film initiative which brought film to rural communities throughout the Highlands and Islands. Focusing on the theme of `memories...

'A tender, heart-felt read, with the perfect blend of ingredients: New York, food, family and romance!' Sophie Cousens-----Where better to start again than New York?Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind.Wandering the streets at a famous food festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she stumbles upon a gelateria that looks strangely familiar. Inside, she...

Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often with a mean look than a pistol - the taciturn Wyatt now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc is more adept at poker than extracting teeth. With the buffalo herds gone, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the Great Plains enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even as the storied West...

Brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek seemingly have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player....

When George Bolton returns home to Devon at the end of the war, Rita assumes that her childhood sweetheart will marry her and that their future will be a continuation of their past. But the boy who joined the RAF has come back a man, and a man irrevocably changed by the horrors that he has seen.

When Nancy's husband gives her a shiny, red lawnmower for Christmas, she realises that time is just about up on her marriage. So her best friend Carmen persuades her to leave Edinburgh and come and stay in her London flat - and for single-again Nancy, there will be better things to do than mow the lawn.