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*previously published as THE LITTLE SHOP OF HAPPY EVER AFTER* Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express In the Scottish Highlands, a little bus packed with books brings joy to the road . . . 'A total joy' Sophie Kinsella 'An evocative, sweet treat' Jojo...

Flora is forced to move back to the tiny island of Mure from the bright lights of London. It's tough: even the beautiful landscapes and bright blue sea can't lift her spirits - she's too busy looking after her dad and her feckless brothers. Then she chances upon her mum's collection of recipes and begins to cook her way through it. As she reconnects with her family and the place she was born, might she also find herself?

Marisa Rosso is struggling. Since the death of her beloved grandfather back home in Italy, she can't seem to find a way out of her grief. She's a registrar and knows losing grandparents is a natural part of life, so why does she feel so lost? When she hears a hospital is recruiting in Mount Polbearne, a tiny and remote tidal island off the Cornish coast, Marisa thinks she has found the perfect retreat. Perhaps some solitude is just what she needs to combat her homesickness and rediscover her equilibrium. But Mount Polbearne is a far cry from the sleepy little place she was imagining.

'If I could live inside a Jenny Colgan novel, I'd be happy forever' JILL MANSELL EVERYONE IS SEARCHING FOR THEIR PERFECT HOUSE. BUT HOME IS REALLY WHERE THE HEART IS ... Janey Carter has a lot to be grateful for - a home by the sea in Carso that she renovated herself, a job as an audiologist...

Carmen has always worked in her local department store. So, when the gorgeous old building closes its doors for good, she is more than a little lost. When her sister, Sofia, mentions an opportunity in Edinburgh - a cute little bookshop, the spare room in her house - Carmen is reluctant, she was never very good at accepting help. But, short on options, she soon finds herself pulling into the snowy city just a month before Christmas.

On the tiny Scottish island of Mure, Christmas preparations are even more hectic than usual.... Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef, a spoilt Norwegian kitchen boy who can't peel a potato without mutilating his own hand and a painfully shy kitchen assistant who blushes when anyone speaks to her. Can they pull it together in time for the big opening? And can Flora help her family find happiness this Christmas?

Everyone knows her life story. But who will win her heart? Gertie has always had her head in the clouds, wondering what her life might be like if she could only pluck up the courage to leave the remote Scottish island where she was born. It's the only place she knows, but you can't do anything...

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.

They live 500 miles apart. Yet their lives are about to collide. Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she's been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives with someone in a quiet village in Scotland. Cormac is restless. Just out of the army, he's desperately in need of distraction and there's precious little of it in Kirrinfief. Maybe three months in London is just what he needs.  

Quand son mariage et sa petite entreprise font naufrage, Polly quitte Plymouth et trouve refuge dans un petit port tranquille d'une île des Cornouailles. Quoi de mieux qu'un village de quelques âmes battu par les vents pour réfléchir et repartir à zéro ? Seule dans une boutique laissée à l'abandon, Polly se consacre à son plaisir favori : préparer du pain. Petit à petit, de rencontres farfelues - avec un bébé macareux blessé, un apiculteur dilettante, des marins gourmands - en petits bonheurs partagés, ce qui n'était qu'un break semble annoncer le début d'une nouvelle vie.

Lorna nasceu e foi criada na ilha escocesa de Mure, um lugar tranquilo onde todos ajudam uns aos outros e existe um forte senso de comunidade. Quando o médico local precisa se aposentar, parece impossível arranjar alguém para ficar em seu lugar. Longe dali, em um campo de refugiados, Saif é o único médico presente quando um menino sofre um corte feio na mão. Ele quer ficar longe de problemas, mas a ética profissional e a compaixão o levam a se voluntariar para tratar o machucado.

Olivia and Anthony are planning a very extravagant wedding at the newest hotel on the tiny Scottish island of Mure. They're flying in chefs, musicians and something called a living flower wall...and no one is even allowed to think the word bridezilla. Flora is trying—and failing—not to let Olivia and Anthony's wedding distract her from planning her own big day with Joel. But the couple have wildly different ideas about how to celebrate and somehow, just when their relationship should be plain sailing, everything is suddenly very hard indeed.

À l'approche de Noël, Mirren Sutherland, chasseuse de livres anciens, est engagée par Jamie McPherson, le jeune et séduisant Laird d'un clan des Highlands, héritier d'un vaste château en ruines. Selon la légende familiale, la collection des McPherson renfermerait un livre rare tellement précieux qu'il pourrait sauver l'ensemble du domaine. À peine Mirren et Theo arrivent-ils au château qu'une épaisse couche de neige recouvre les Highlands, les coupant du monde extérieur. Entre secrets et énigmes, une véritable chasse au trésor s'annonce pour retrouver le livre caché.

Carmen est désemparée. Sa magnifique librairie est devenue le lieu de tournage d'un film de Noël complètement ringard et elle a été chassée de la maison de sa sœur. Et pour couronner le tout, l'amour de sa vie vient de s'envoler à des milliers de kilomètres. L'esprit de Noël n'est décidemment pas au rendez-vous... Mais lorsque Mr McCredie, le vieux propriétaire de la librairie, lui annonce qu'il veut partir en Antarctique, Carmen met tout en œuvre pour l'aider à financer ce voyage.

After Mirren Sutherland finds a priceless antique book in her great aunt's attic, she is contacted by Jamie McPherson, who is hopeful she might be able to find another one - a book lost in his own house. He doesn't even know the name of it, only that it is so valuable it could potentially save...

Et si cette petite librairie dans les Highlands écossais était le secret du bonheur et d'une nouvelle vie ? Un feel good book enthousiasmant ! Nina est fière de travailler à la bibliothèque de Birmingham, mais elle se rend compte qu'au lieu de vivre au milieu des livres qu'elle adore, elle passe surtout son temps dans l'arrière-salle à faire de l'informatique. Tout ce qui faisait sa joie a disparu et lui manque terriblement : le contact avec les gens, papoter avec les habitués, s'assurer que chaque lecteur va trouver le livre qui lui convient...

Christmas on the remote Scottish island of Mure is bleak, stark - and incredibly beautiful. It's a time for hunkering down, getting cosy in front of whisky barrel wood fires and enjoying a dram with the people you love - unless, of course, you're accidentally pregnant to your ex-boss and don't know how to tell him. In what should be the season of peace and goodwill on earth, will Joel think Flora is a bearer of glad tidings?

On the quayside next to the Endless Beach sits the Summer Seaside Kitchen. It's a haven for tourists and locals alike, who all come to eat the freshest local produce on the island and catch up with the gossip. Flora, who runs the café, feels safe and content - unless she thinks too hard about her relationship with Joel, her gorgeous but emotionally (and physically) distant boyfriend. While Flora is in turmoil about her relationship, her best friend, Lorna, is pining after the local doctor.

Quando Flora MacKenzie trocou uma glamourosa carreira em Londres pela remota localidade de Mure, na Escócia, nem sonhava que Joel, seu chefe gato e de personalidade difícil, iria também. Agora, reunida com a família e gerenciando uma charmosa cafeteria, ela está feliz e satisfeita. A não ser quando pensa em Joel. Apesar de seu namoro ainda estar no início, ele se mostra distante e fechado demais para o gosto dela.

Amanda's old school friends can't believe it when the social-climbing queen of preen, Satan's very own PR girl, pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engaged to a Scottish laird. Who cares that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse trainers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one calor gas heater - she'll be titled!