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Sophie is a girl about town - living the party lifestyle with Daddy footing the bill. But when she gets embroiled in a scandalous affair, she is thrown out of home and left to fend for herself on the mean streets of London. Scraping a living as a cleaner in a photographic studio, living in a bedsit on the Old Kent Road, eating baked beans from the can - this is one spectacular fall from grace. On top of that, she is papped by photographers every time she leaves the flat, with her so-called friends laughing at her downfall.

As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate; made entirely by hand, it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris. It's a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in at home in the north of England. But when an accident changed everything, Anna was thrown back in touch with her French teacher, Claire

Ever dreamed of starting over? Issy Randall can bake. No, more than that - Issy can create stunning, mouth-wateringly divine cakes. After a childhood spent in her beloved Grampa Joe’s bakery she has undoubtedly inherited his talent. So when she’s made redundant from her safe but dull City job, Issy decides to seize the moment and open up her own café. It should be a piece of cake, right?

Now, you obviously, would never, ever look up your exes on Facebook. Nooo. And even if you did, you most certainly wouldn't run off trying to track them down, risking your job, family and happiness in the process. Posy Fairweather, on the other hand...Posy is delighted when Matt proposes - on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But a few days’ later disaster strikes: he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts thinking.

Polly Waterford is recovering from a toxic relationship. Unable to afford their flat, she has to move miles away from everyone, to a sleepy little seaside resort in Cornwall, where she lives alone above an abandoned shop. And so Polly takes out her frustrations on her favourite hobby: making bread. But what was previously a weekend diversion suddenly becomes far more important as she pours her emotions into kneading and pounding the dough, and each loaf becomes better and better.

Includes mouth-watering recipes! Curl up with Rosie, her friends and her family as they prepare for a very special Christmas... Rosie Hopkins is looking forward to Christmas in the little Derbyshire village of Lipton, buried under a thick blanket of snow. Her sweetshop is festooned with striped candy canes, large tempting piles of Turkish Delight, crinkling selection boxes and happy, sticky children. She's going to be spending it with her boyfriend, Stephen, and her family, flying in from Australia.

Un roman de Noël qui renoue avec les personnages de la série Au bord de l'eau, pour conclure la tétralogie avec sourire, émotion et tendresse. Sur la charmante île écossaise de Mure, un nouveau défi attend les MacKenzie : Fintan doit ouvrir pour Noël l'hôtel légué par son mari, ce qui ne s'avère pas facile quand le chagrin est encore si présent. Flora tente d'épauler son frère tout en jonglant entre son propre café et son bébé. À eux de recruter la meilleure équipe pour que l'ouverture de l'établissement soit un succès !

Inselflair und Glücksgefühle: Der krönende Abschluss der Frauenroman-Reihe um die kleine Sommerküche von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan. Gleich drei verliebte Paare suchen in »Hochzeitsglocken auf der kleinen Insel« nach ihrem Happy End – Romantik und Sommersonne garantiert! Instagram-Star Olivia plant eine Hochzeit, die alle anderen in den Schatten stellen soll. Und das ausgerechnet auf der schottischen Insel Mure.

Vom quirligen London zur entlegenen Insel Mure? Nein - nur widerwillig kehrt die junge Flora in ihre schottische Heimat zurück. Weder die unberührte Landschaft noch das glitzernde Meer können sie aufmuntern, während sie ihren geschwächten Vater und ihre Brüder versorgt. Doch dann entdeckt sie das alte Kochbuch ihrer verstorbenen Mutter, und als sie ein Rezept nach dem anderen ausprobiert, öffnet sich ihr Herz: für die Sinnlichkeit des Essens, für die Schönheit der Natur und für einen neuen Anfang.

It’s gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark. She’s delighted by her new teaching job, but will it come at the expense of her relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend Stan? Simone is excited and nervous: she’s won a scholarship to the prestigious boarding school and wants to make her parents proud. Forced to share a room with the glossy, posh girls of Downey House, she needs to find a friend, fast.

Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote islands that make up the northernmost reaches of the UK. She’s also a third-generation pilot, the heir apparent to an island plane service she runs with her grandfather. The islands—over 500 dots of windswept land that reach almost to Norway—rely on their one hardworking prop plane to deliver mail, packages, tourists, medicine, and the occasional sheep. As the keeper of this vital lifeline, Morag is used to landing on pale golden beaches and tiny grass airstrips, whether during great storms or on bright endless summer nights.

À Mure, minuscule petite île écossaise, les nuits durent plus longtemps qu'ailleurs. Et celle de Noël, qui approche à grands pas, peut-être plus longtemps encore... Déjà, une douce odeur de scones et de Christmas pudding s'échappe de la Seaside Kitchen.

Celebrate the holidays with New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s Christmas Island Collection, featuring two novels—Christmas on the Island and Christmas at the Island Hotel—two romantic and festive tales set on a charming island off the coast of Scotland.

Keep the cold at bay and cozy up with New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s Christmas Book Set, collecting two novels—Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop and Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery—a pair of sweet stories full of romance, cheer, and hope for this magical time of year.

Lissie is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissie to spend a few months doing a much less demanding job in the little town of Kirrinfeif in Scottish Highlands, hoping that the change of scenery will help her heal. Lissie will be swapping places with Cormack, an Army veteran who’s Kirrinfeif’s easygoing nurse/paramedic/all-purpose medical man.

They may be twins, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. Penny is the life of the party, while quiet and thoughtful Lizzy is often left out of the crowd. The one trait they do share is a longing to do something spectacular with their lives, and as far as these two are concerned, there’s no better place to make their dreams come true than London. Presented with a once-in-a-lifetime house-sit at their grandmother’s home in a desirable London neighborhood, it finally seems Lizzie and Penny are a step closer to the exciting cosmopolitan life they’ve always wanted.

Faced with the harsh reality that there are 25,000 more women than men in London, Katie’s dating prospects are at an all-time low. While she’s glad it’s not a man’s world anymore, it wouldn’t hurt if there were more eligible bachelors. More likely to get murdered than married, according to gleeful media reports, Katie resigns herself to the fact that there’s no sex in the city for her and decides to head for the hills - or the Scottish Highlands to be exact.

En s'installant sur l'île de Mure, au nord de l'Écosse, Flora et Joel ont tout laissé derrière eux. La grisaille, le stress londonien... Mais pourquoi cette bougeotte chez Joel ? Pas une semaine sans qu'il prévoie un aller-retour à New York... Regretterait-il son choix ?

Weihnachtlich, romantisch, wunderbar – Feel-Good-Unterhaltung von Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan. Ein festlich geschmückter Kamin mit prasselndem Feuer, ein köstliches Weihnachtsmenü und glückliche Gäste – so prachtvoll soll "The Rock", das neue Hotel auf der kleinen schottischen Insel Mure, an den Feiertagen erstrahlen. Doch wenige Wochen vor dem Fest ist das Hotel eine Baustelle, der Kamin nicht einsatzbereit und die Küche ein einziges Chaos.

Sophie Chesterton is London's "It Girl". She knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, and wears all the right clothes...and her rich parents pay for everything. But deep down she suspects that her best "friends" - and her posh lifestyle - are nothing but shallow fakes. Then one evening Sophie's life takes a shocking, drastic turn, and her father decides it's high time for the party girl to make her own way in the world.