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.

When Meg returns to Dublin after three years following sailor boyfriend Simon around the globe with two toddlers, Lily and Dan, she realizes that all her friends have moved on. And now she only has her kooky family and Dan's flaky but dangerously gorgeous father, Sid, to rely on for help and support. Then she teams up with her neighbor Tina, who's in the same boat - her husband works away, Monday to Friday - and the two new friends start to enjoy their man-free life. Meg has a shock when Simon says he's moving home for good, and finds that sometimes living apart is easier than living together...

Meet three very different women: Sally's back from the Caribbean where she has been working on a luxury yacht. She eats men for breakfast and now she has a certain man in mind! Eve is an accountant, a solitary control freak who has chosen career over love and lived to regret it. Ashling is a journalist, bringing up a six-year old son on her own. The only man she trusts is hundreds of miles away...Three women with one thing in common: Mark Mulhearne. And now he's back for a certain school reunion. Maybe, just maybe, he can be persuaded to stay for good. But three into one won't go...or will it?

Rosie is only 28 but feels like 101 due to her life of stresses and worries. Out of the blue her husband admits to an affair. Rosie takes a deep breath and leaves him. Opting out of the city rat race, she sets up a small gallery in Wicklow and finds that every day is full of surprises - and some new friends.

A fabulous new novel of love, life and romance from a No 1 bestselling author In the Irish village of Burnaby, life is about to change for three very different women. Molly Harper is the long-suffering 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. Should she stay, or should she walk? Her best friend, Paige Brady, has problems of her own. She has just launched a general election campaign and is astonished when another woman on the ballot sheet, Annette Higgins, starts to attack her in a very personal way. But Paige is determined to stay in the race. Kate Bowan, shop assistant in the trendy Burnaby designer shoe shop, 'Baroque' by day, runs the popular dummy dating service 'Test-Crash Dates' by night. But one particular client is proving to be more than a handful. All's fair in love, business and politics as the three friends are about to find out. Enter the world of Burnaby Village, and you'll be glad you stayed...

In this collection of fascinating, thought-provoking, poignant and funny true-life travel pieces, bestselling author Sarah Webb has gathered together some of Ireland's top women writers. Martina Devlin tracks down the perfect amber necklace in St Petersburg; Julie Parsons makes an unforgettable trip as a child by sea to Ireland from New Zealand following her father's sudden disappearance; Morag Prunty finds solace and solitude among the hammams of Marrakesh and Marian Keyes pens finds courage and hope in Ethiopia. Add in Louise East's incredible story of nearly losing her life three times in one week in Colombia, and Clare Downling's encounter with a Don Johnson lookalike on a visit to Dublin, and this volume provides the perfect package for a delicious weekend's reading. All royalties earned on this book go to the Kisiizi Children's Hospital in Uganda.

Two months to write a raunchy bonkbuster set in the glitzy world of modelling should be easy. Right? Wrong! Life can't get much worse for romance writer Libby Holliday. She's been dumped by her agent and her publisher, and now she's discovered her fiancé, Jeremy, is seeing their mutual friend, the shameless Ruth-Ann, behind her back. So when broken-hearted Libby's offered the chance to ghost-write a novel for model and reality show darling, Lulubelle Ryan, she leaps at the chance. Lulubelle is in the middle of filming a new TV show about plastic surgery - which means five star travel for her entourage to San Francisco, Paris and Antigua. And even better, Libby's best friend spiky-mouthed journalist, Celeste O'Connor, is coming along for the ride. Lulubelle proves to be the diva of divas, but there are some benefits - her handsome and enigmatic manager, Leo, to name just one. If only Libby could forget about her other male addiction...