QBD The Bookshop 有一套好书在Sale！

smiletolife

这套书是Maeve Binchy写的，适合9岁以上的孩子。原价是$130,现价是$25.
这套书是8本，我昨天买了，女儿看了，今天早上说是很好的书，我已介绍了5个朋友去买。
有兴趣的可以去附近的QBD书店买。

[ 本帖最后由 smiletolife 于 2010-6-10 17:11 编辑 ]

缓缓

书大致是什么内容？

smiletolife

我在网上查了有关作者和她的作品介绍。她是爱尔兰人。
下面是介绍作者的。

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Maeve Binchy


Born 28 May 1940 (1940-05-28) (age 70)
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Irish
Notable work(s) Circle of Friends

Official website
Maeve Binchy (born 28 May 1940 Dalkey, County Dublin)[1][2] is an Irish novelist, newspaper columnist and speaker. Educated at University College Dublin,[1][2] she worked as a teacher[2][3] then a journalist at The Irish Times[2] and later become a writer of novels and short stories.

Many of her novels are set in Ireland, dealing with the tensions between urban and rural life, the contrasts between England and Ireland, and the dramatic changes in Ireland between World War II and the present day.

Her novel Circle of Friends was made into a 1995 Hollywood movie starring Chris O'Donnell and Minnie Driver with a radical change of ending.[4]

Binchy announced in 2000 that she would not be going on tours with any more novels, but would be devoting her time to other activities, and to her husband, Gordon Snell, a children's author. She has written four further novels since then — Quentins, Night of Rain and Stars, Whitethorn Woods, and Heart and Soul. She lives in Dalkey, not far from where she grew up.[5]

In 1978, Binchy won a Jacob's Award for her RTÉ play, Deeply Regretted By. A second award went to the lead actor, Donall Farmer. A 1993 photograph of her by Richard Whitehead belongs to the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (London)[6] and a painting of her by Maeve McCarthy, commissioned in 2005, is on display in the National Gallery of Ireland.[7]

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smiletolife

8本书如下：

The Copper Beech (1992)
The Glass Lake (1994)
Evening Class (1996)
Tara Road (1998)
Scarlet Feather (2000)
Quentins (2002)
Nights of Rain and Stars (2004)
Whitethorn Woods (2006)

绿茶

还多吗？不知道周末去买还会有哇？

smiletolife

1。The Copper Beech

The novel is centered around the lives of eight people, each of which have etched their dreams or desires into a large beech tree at a young age. The novel follows the progression of their lives and whether they accomplshed their dreams.

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2。The Glass Lake

The Glass Lake is a novel by Maeve Binchy. Similar to other Binchy novels, this book is set in a rural Irish village in the 1950s as well as London. The story focuses on Kit McMahon and her relationship with her mother with the story spanning about a decade. In one of Binchy's stronger books, she explores the roles of women in Irish society, inconstant lovers and uses an operatic plot to hold a reader's attention.

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3。Evening Class

Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film Italian for Beginners (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to acknowledge the source

A story of many Irish men and women from various backgrounds and how a teacher, Nora O'Donoghue (known as "Signora"), and an Italian evening class changes their lives over the course of a year. Each chapter deals with the life story of one or more students in the class. In a Dickensian way, they bump into each other and are affected by the decisions of those around them

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4。Tara Road

Tara Road is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in September 1999.
It is the story of two women, one from Ireland and one from America, who trade houses without ever having met. They're both looking for an escape from their problems, but by running away, both come to discover a great deal about themselves.

The book mostly concentrates on the life of Ria Lynch, the Irish woman, who has met her future husband Danny Lynch. The two end up getting married, much to Ria's shock and delight, and start a family together while Danny's career takes off. Many years into their marriage, Danny begins spending less and less time at home with his wife and children. Ria believes another baby is the solution, and is shocked to find out that indeed her husband is going to be a father...but to a child from an affair he has been having with another women. Her husband's unfaithfulness is the event that leads Ria into her decision to switch homes with the lady from America. Tara Road was made into a film in 2005.

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5。Scarlet Feather

One of the novel's main characters is Cathy Scarlet, who has married Neil Mitchell, son of the wealthy household where her mother Lizzie used to scrub floors. We see that Neil's mother Hannah was totally against the marriage and makes life hard for Cathy. Cathy and her college friend, Tom Feather, set up a catering business called Scarlet Feather, the fortunes of which are traced throughout the book. Tom is in a relationship with beautiful Marcella, who dreams of being a model, but Marcella's ambitions come between the couple and there is growing distance too between Cathy and Niall.

Younger characters are Neil's twin nephew and niece Simon and Maud who are in need of care, as their mother is an alcoholic and their father has disappeared. Their older brother Walter is not willing to take responsibility for them, and they end up spending a lot of time with Cathy's parents, Lizzie and Muttie, in a far less affluent part of town.

The novel traces the growth of the catering company which gives it its name and the relationships of the main characters, as well as those of more minor characters such as Shona and James. Readers of Binchy's other novels, Quentins, will recognise Brenda Brennan and her restaurant. Scarlet Feather explores familiar themes of family strife and responsibility, relationships and fledgling business ventures. Binchy invites us into her characters' lives and draws them with humour and warmth.

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6。Quentins

Ella Brady, a young science teacher, falls in love with a successful businessman (Don Richardson) who is married but tells her that his marriage was "dead". For some time she is happy with the torrid affair, and manages to overlook some inconsistencies in what he tells her. Until the moment when he is exposed as a corrupt swindler and runs away out of the country and out of her life - leaving Ella, her family, and many people in Dublin without their savings. Ella is disgraced and quits her teaching job to work more than 60 hours a week at Quentins restaurant, with the Scarlet Feather catering company, and with a film crew, to help out her family.

The book mostly concentrates on Ella's attempt to get funding for her friends' film company for a documentary about the restaurant Quentins. She struggles to get over a man who was deceitful, whom she still loves, and with whether or not to give the fraud squad access to a laptop he left in her possession. Eventually, her efforts to get funding get her to meet a new man, Derry King, an American businessman with an Irish heritage which he hates because of the way his drunken Irish father treated him and his mother.

Smaller plot points revolve around the background of Patrick and Brenda Brennan (the owners of Quentins), Ella's girlfriends Deirdre and Nuala, and many of the regulars at the restaurant; the main plot is interspersed with various vignettes in the life of people who had been in contact with the restaurant in one way or another, these inteweaving with each other and with Ella Brady's life in a various unpredicatable ways

kiddywang

请问QBD 在哪里 ？ 有地址吗？

smiletolife

8。Whitethorn Woods

The novel is told through the story of numerous people who are somehow connected to a town in Ireland by the name of Rossmore. The town faces a major dilemma as news surfaces that a new highway is being built through the area, which could threaten to disrupt the peaceful and undisturbed life that the town has enjoyed so far.

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7。Nights of Rain and Stars Study Guide

The novel, published in 2004, takes place in modern times and tells the story of a shocking tragedy that impacts the lives of both the locals and a group of tourists. It is set principally in a small Greek fishing village called Aghia Anna, located on a small Greek island.

Andreas, the gentle old tavern owner, is the first to witness the tragedy, but is unwilling to accept it as reality. From his tavern high on the hill, he sees the fire down in the bay. He is convinced his eyes are playing tricks on him; it cannot truly be coming from the Olga, his friend Manos's tourist boat.

As he prepares his tavern for the day, he notices a group of tourists climbing the hill, turning in open-mouthed horror to stare at the bay. Their remarks confirm.....

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原帖由 kiddywang 于 2010-6-10 16:18 发表
请问QBD 在哪里 ？ 有地址吗？

这是书店的地址网站：

http://www.qbd.com.au/locations.htm?store=6

smiletolife

书的照片如下：



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SMART1968

原帖由 smiletolife 于 2010-6-10 14:52 发表
这套书是Maeve Binchy写的，适合9岁以上的孩子。原价是$130,现价是$25.
这套书是8本，我昨天买了，女儿看了，今天早上说是很好的书，我已介绍了5个朋友去买。
有兴趣的可以去附近的QBD书店买。

非常感谢，我很早就想买这套书。是一个很有名的作家写的，就因为太贵了所以没买，今天我是由如得宝。

smiletolife

原帖由 绿茶 于 2010-6-10 16:06 发表
还多吗？不知道周末去买还会有哇？

今天是shopping day，下班也可以去买。

cynthia

看了看，感觉是给大人看的书诶，都是ROMANCE 故事。

ECLF408

来晚了，不知道还买的到吗？
感谢LZ。