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Carmen is at a loose end. Her gorgeous bookshop is the filming site of a cheesy Christmas movie, she's been ousted from her sister's house, and the love of her life has just flown thousands of miles away. It's threatening to be a very unjolly Christmas indeed! But when the elderly owner of the shop comes to Carmen with a Christmas wish that threatens to never come true, Carmen knows she must buckle down to get the funds to save not only his trip, but the shop itself.

Born into a family of successful pilots, Morag is used to flying high. But when a tragic accident above the clouds grounds her, could the future she'd always imagined be suddenly out of reach? When she receives a call telling her that her beloved grandfather has been taken ill, Morag leaves her fast-paced life in London to return home to the tranquil Scottish Highlands. With her grandfather out of action, Morag has no choice but to take over flying the local route in his rickety old plane, ferrying locals across the beautiful islands of the archipelago.

Maggie Adair, the passionate, devoted English teacher at Downey House, is about to ride off into the sunset with her new love when tragedy strikes. Pulled from their happy-ever-after, she and David must put their budding romance aside until they return for a new term, unsure where they now stand. A fresh new year at Downey House comes with more drama from the students - with Fliss and Alice at odds after a summer apart, and Simone trying to nurture her new relationship while dealing with exam stresses, the new term is shaping up to be a challenge for all.

A adorável loja de chocolates de Paris contém receitas de dar água na boca. Sim, é verdade que Anna Trent é supervisora numa fábrica de chocolate. Mas isso não quer dizer que ela saiba fazer chocolate. Por isso, quando um acidente muda sua vida e Anna tem a chance de ir trabalhar numa tradicional loja em Paris, ela tem certeza de que vão descobrir que é uma fraude. Afinal, existe uma diferença muito grande entre o chocolate industrial da sua cidade natal, no norte da Inglaterra, e as criações feitas à mão, com ingredientes da melhor procedência, pelo grande chocolatier Thierry Girard.

Polly Waterford coule des jours heureux sur la paisible île de Mount Polbearne, dans les Cornouailles, entre le grand phare dans lequel elle s'est installée avec Huckle, son boyfriend, et la petite boulangerie où elle prépare chaque jour, avec passion, d'irrésistibles pains dorés. Mais lorsque le nouveau propriétaire de sa boutique fait irruption sur l'île, Polly réalise que son bonheur pourrait bien être réduit en miettes.

Spiegel-Bestseller-Autorin Jenny Colgan nimmt uns mit auf die wild-romantische schottische Insel Mure, wo der neue Arzt das Dorfleben durcheinanderwirbelt. Lorna lebt auf der kleinen schottischen Insel Mure, die sie über alles liebt, auf der sie aber auch ein wenig einsam ist. Und: Mure braucht dringend einen neuen Arzt, da sich der örtliche Arzt zur Ruhe setzt - aber niemand will auf die abgelegene Insel. In einem weit entfernten überfüllten Flüchtlingscamp wird man auf Saif aufmerksam, der sich hochprofessionell um die schwer verletzte Hand eines kleinen Jungen kümmert.

Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money… the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag… Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to settle up, she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams - a novel - with recipes.

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 !

Es weihnachtet sehr an Cornwalls Küste, und Polly hat nur ein Ziel: Dieses Fest der Liebe muss das Beste aller Zeiten werden. Aber wann verläuft das Leben schon nach Plan? Prompt schneit ihre Freundin in der Bäckerei vorbei und vertraut ihr ein heikles Geheimnis an, das bald nicht mehr zu verbergen sein wird. Außerdem ist da noch die leidige Frage, wer die Bäckerei weiterführen darf.

While Katie's glad it's not a man's world anymore, she'd be quite pleased if there were more men in it - or at least single ones, anyway. More likely to get murdered than married, according to gleeful media reports, Katie resigns herself to the fact there's no sex in the city and heads for the hills - or the Scottish Highlands, to be precise. Despite the fact she's never been a girl for wellies and Fairlish is in the middle of nowhere, the tiny town does have one major draw: men. Lots of them.

As her best friend, Tashy, cuts into her wedding cake, 32-year-old Flora realises she is disillusioned with life. Suddenly her well-paid job, cosy flat and stable relationship with sensible Olly don't amount to a whole lot. Flora wants to be 16 again. She closes her eyes and wishes. Her wish has come true. Waking up the next morning is a shock. But now Flora has the chance to right some wrongs.

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.

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.

Carmen pose ses valises chez sa sœur Sofia en Écosse pour passer Noël. Mais Carmen, qui vient de perdre son poste dans un grand magasin, n'est à vrai dire d'abord pas si enchantée à cette perspective de se retrouver chez sa sœur si parfaite, avec ses enfants parfaits et sa vie aisée parfaitement ordonnée. Et, pour être franche, Sofia n'a pas très envie non plus de la voir.

Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely, ozoney air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance? It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by the sea.

La toute dernière série de Jenny Colgan ! Un premier tome gourmand, pour une histoire familiale chaleureuse et émouvante. Rosie Hopkins pense que quitter sa vie londonienne occupée et son petit ami Gerard pour aider sa vieille tante Lilian à s'occuper de la confiserie dans un petit village de campagne va être ennuyeux. Si elle savait ce qui l'attendait dans la petite ville de Lipton... Lilian Hopkins a passé sa vie à diriger la confiserie de Lipton, pendant la guerre et les querelles familiales.

Polly Waterford ne voit pas le temps passer... Sa petite boulangerie l'occupe du matin au soir, au désespoir d'Huckle, son compagnon, qui rêve de profiter d'une simple grasse matinée avec elle. À l'approche des fêtes de fin d'année, Huckle rêve aussi d'un Noël en amoureux, bien au chaud dans leur grand phare, avec leur petit macareux Neil. Mais quand Kerensa débarque à Mount Polbearne pour dévoiler à sa meilleure amie un terrible secret sur son passé, Polly voit soudain son avenir s'assombrir.

Es klingt fast zu gut um wahr zu sein - Polly wird ihr Hobby zum Beruf machen, und das in Cornwall, auf einer romantischen Insel mit Männerüberschuss. Genau die richtige Kur für ein leeres Konto und ein gebrochenes Herz. Aber die alte Bäckerei ist eine windschiefe Bruchbude, am Meer kann es sehr kühl sein, und der Empfang, den manche Insulaner ihr bereiten, ist noch viel kälter. Gut, dass Polly Neil hat, einen kleinen Papageientaucher mit gebrochenem Flügel.

The streets of London are the perfect place to discover your dreams.... They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites - Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie is quiet, thoughtful and, well, definitely not thin. But they both share a desperate desire to DO something with their lives. When out of the blue they learn they have a grandmother living in Chelsea, who asks them to flat-sit her King's Road pad while she is in hospital, the girls' ambitions finally seem to be falling into place.

Weihnachten auf Schottisch - romantisch, atmosphärisch, wunderbar! Winterzeit auf der schottischen Insel Mure ist wunderbar. Während draußen Stürme toben, kuschelt man sich vor dem Kamin so richtig ein, mit Menschen, die man liebt, und genießt regionale Köstlichkeiten von Weihnachts-Shortbread bis Whiskypunsch. Doch der Zauber der Vorweihnachtszeit kann sich nicht so recht entfalten, wenn man ungeplant vom Ex-Boss und heutigen Liebsten schwanger ist und nicht weiß, wie man es ihm sagen soll.