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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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

The unmissable second instalment of Jenny Colgan's return to the Little School by the Sea - perfect for anyone who ever dreamed of going to boarding school!After the scandals of the summer, life has settled down for Maggie Adair and the girls of Downey House. But Ismé, the new scholarship girl, is causing trouble.

Escape to the Scottish Highlands where a tiny bookshop perches on the edge of a loch. Zoe is a single mother, sinking beneath the waves trying to cope by herself in London. Hari, her gorgeous little boy, is perfect in every way - except for the fact that he just doesn't speak at all. When her landlord raises the rent on her flat, Zoe doesn't know where to turn. Then Hari's aunt suggests Zoe could move to Scotland to help run a bookshop. Going from the lonely city to a small village in the Highlands could be the change Zoe and Hari desperately need.

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.

Includes mouth-watering recipes. Rosie Hopkins, newly engaged, is looking forward to an exciting year in the little sweetshop she owns and runs. But when fate strikes Rosie and her boyfriend, Stephen, a terrible blow, threatening everything they hold dear, it's going to take all their strength and the support of their families and their Lipton friends to hold them together. After all, don't they say it takes a village to raise a child? Treat yourself and your friends to Jenny Colgan's heartwarming new novel this Christmas.

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.

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.

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. Wird es Polly trotzdem gelingen, mit ihrem Freund Huckle und Papageientaucher Neil das fröhlichste aller Feste zu feiern?

Après le succès éclatant de la série "La Petite Boulangerie du bout du monde", Jenny Colgan vous propose une nouvelle promenade gourmande et chaleureuse au cœur de Londres ! Issy est indéniablement douée pour la pâtisserie ! Ses collègues de la City se régalent chaque semaine des délicieux gâteaux qu'elle apporte au bureau. Elle tient ce talent de son grand-père qui a consacré sa vie entière à sa boulangerie. C'est à ses côtés, dans la chaleur des fournils, qu'Issy a grandi et appris les secrets des cupcakes moelleux.

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.

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.

She's smart. She's funny. But she's only human.... As a high-ranking mathematician in a male-dominated field - with bright red hair - Connie's used to being considered a little unusual. But she's nowhere near as peculiar as Luke, who is recruited to work alongside her on a top-secret code-breaking project. Just what is this bizarre sequence they're studying? It isn't a solution to the global energy crisis. It isn't a new wavelength to sell microwave ovens.

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.

Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn't exactly seem to be coming up roses. Fleeing the houseshare from hell, she moves in with Josh, a sexually confused merchant banker; Kate, a high-flying legal eagle with talons to match; and the gorgeous Addison, who spends his days communicating only with his computer and those who worship at the altar of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.