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The unmissable new heartwarming, funny, emotional read from Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan

The unmissable new heartwarming, funny, emotional read from Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan

The Christmas Surprise is the final novel in Jenny Colgan's Rosie Hopkins trilogy.Includes mouth-watering recipesRosie 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?

Queen of Christmas and Sunday Times top 5 bestselling author Jenny Colgan's slice of festive delight will warm your heart this winter

***Jenny Colgan's next bestseller, The Endless Beach, is available for pre-order now***Welcome back to Mount Polbearne! The new book from Top Ten bestseller Jenny Colgan is full of festive joy, warmth and the best hot chocolate you can imagine...It's Christmas in the Cornish coastal village of Mount Polbearne - a time for family, friends and feasting. Polly Waterford loves running the Little Beach Street Bakery. She's at her happiest when she's creating delicious treats and the festive season always inspires her to bake and knead something extra special for the village residents. In fact, the only thing she loves more than her bakery is curling up with her gorgeous boyfriend, Huckle. She's determined that this Christmas is going to be their best one yet, but life doesn't always work out as planned...When Polly's best friend Kerensa turns up with a secret that threatens the life Polly and Huckle have built together, the future begins to look uncertain. And then a face from Polly's past reappears and things become even more complicated. Polly can usually find solace in baking but she has a feeling that's not going to be enough this time. Can she get things back on track so that everyone has a merry Christmas?

'Funny, page-turning and addictive . . . just like Malory Towers for grown-ups'Sophie KinsellaClass is the first novel in Jenny Colgan's beloved Maggie Adair series.**************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. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark - but will it be at the expense of her relationship with safe, dependable Stan? Simone has won a scholarship and wants to make her parents proud. Forced to share a room with the glossy, pretty, clever girls of Downey House, she needs to find a friend, fast. Fliss is furious at being sent away from her home. As Simone tries desperately to fit in, Fliss tries desperately to get out. Over the course of one year, friendships will bloom and lives will be changed forever. "e;A brilliant boarding school book, stuffed full of unforgettable characters, thrilling adventures and angst..."e; - Lisa Jewell

Femte bok i Jenny Colgans suksesserie om Flora MacKenzie og innbyggerne på den lille øya i havet. Det er snart midtsommer. Olivia og Anthony planlegger Et Meget Ekstravagant Bryllup på hotellet på den lille øya Mure. Kokker, musikere og noe så outrert som en levende blomstervegg flys inn. Alt må være perfekt til den store dagen. Kanskje for perfekt? Samtidig gjør Flora alt hun kan for å ikke la bryllupet til Olivia og Anthony overskygge hennes egen store dag med Joel - og feiler totalt. Planleggingen går også på forholdet løs - for de greier ikke å enes om hvordan feiringen skal foregå. Og så er det Lorna og Said, som desperat forsøker å holde forholdet hemmelig for sønnene hans. Men når de bruker all sin tid på å beskytte guttene - hvem skal passe på dem?

Sjarmerende bestselgerserie om å forlate det hektiske storbylivet og finne lykken på en liten øy. Julen på den skotske øya Mure er kald, forblåst og utrolig vakker. Nå er tiden for å kose seg foran peisen med en god kopp te eller kanskje en liten whisky, sammen med de nære og kjære - med mindre man, som Flora, er gravid med den tidligere sjefen sin og redd for å fortelle ham om det. I det som skal være fredens og gledens høytid, vil Joel synes at Flora kommer med godt nytt? I mellomtiden prøver Saif, lege og flyktning fra krigsherjede Syria, å feire sin første jul i Vesten sammen med sønnene, mens kona hans fremdeles er savnet. Er det mulig for den lille familien å finne en form for lykke?

Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns with an hilarious, heartwarming, happy-ever-after as Nina follows her heart - and her dreams - to a new life in the countryside.

Gorgeously romantic, gloriously heartwarming - take the unmissable third Mure novel from Sunday Times bestseller Jenny Colgan to the beach this summer

The second novel in Jenny Colgan's heartwarming Little Beach Street Bakery trilogy.Voted Best Feel Good Read by Women & Home Readers!Summer has arrived in the Cornish town of Mount Polbearne and Polly Waterford couldn't be happier. Because Polly is in love: she's in love with the beautiful seaside town she calls home, she's in love with running the bakery on Beach Street, and she's in love with her boyfriend, Huckle. And yet there's something unsettling about the gentle summer breeze that's floating through town. Selina, recently widowed, hopes that moving to Mount Polbearne will ease her grief, but Polly has a secret that could destroy her friend's fragile recovery. Responsibilities that Huckle thought he'd left behind are back and Polly finds it hard to cope with his increasingly long periods of absence. Polly sifts flour, kneads dough and bakes bread, but nothing can calm the storm she knows is coming: is Polly about to lose everything she loves?

The ever-popular novels of Sunday Times bestselling sensation, Jenny Colgan, are given a beautiful contemporary new look in this re-issue series.

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan brings us a delightful summer novel that will sweep you away to the remote Scottish island of Mure, where two very different weddings are about to take place...On the little Scottish island of Mure--halfway between Scotland and Norway--Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé Joel are planning the smallest of sweetheart weddings, a high summer celebration surrounded only by those very dearest to them.Not everyone on the island is happy about being excluded, though. The temperature rises even further when beautiful Olivia MacDonald--who left Mure ten years ago for bigger and brighter things--returns with a wedding planner in tow. Her fiancé has oodles of family money, and Olivia is determined to throw the biggest, most extravagant, most Instagrammable wedding possible. And she wants to do it at Flora's hotel, the same weekend as Flora's carefully planned micro-wedding. As the summer solstice approaches, can Flora handle everyone else's Happy Every Afters--and still get her own?

Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan welcomes you to a new term at a beautiful Cornish boarding school by the sea.

Sunday Times top 5 bestselling author Jenny Colgan new's festive treat is sure to warm your heart this Christmas

The third novel by the Sunday times bestselling author of Amanda's Wedding'I'm wearing a beautiful pink dress, and I'm in a big pink room with billowing curtains...and I'm dancing to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark...and my handsome partner leans over and whispers...'Yes, 80s child Ellie really thought life was going to be like Pretty in Pink, St Elmo's Fire and all those other movies - where everyone was astoundingly glamorous, popular, successful, had huge apartments and lived happily ever after. But now that she and her gang are thirty, she has to admit that things haven't quite turned out that way. When did horrible flats, difficult relationships and menaningless jobs take over?And, more importantly, what happened to the coolest, wisest, most inspirational Brat Packer of them all? Where is Andrew McCarthy now? Did life fulfil its promise for him? Is he happy on Channel 5? Surely he, of all people, can tell Ellie what to do about her thirty-angst?Determined to get her idol to unravel some of life's great mysteries, Ellie sets out, unwillingly accompanied by her best friend Julia, on a quest across the USA, from LA to New York to find him. It's an unlikely epic, by turns hilarious, romantic and downright uncomfortable - but, helped by a cast of thousands, of whom Frosty the Giant Pig is probably the least improbable, they do find some answers, although not the ones they expected

Fifteen million copies sold. A readership that spans the world. It's time to fall in love with Jenny Colgan.

Morag er født inn i en familie av vellykkede piloter, og er vant til å fly høyt. Men etter en tragisk ulykke blir hun satt på bakken. Fremtiden hun alltid har forestilt seg, er plutselig utenfor rekkevidde.Da hun får en telefon om at hennes elskede bestefar har blitt syk, reiser Morag hjem til det skotske høylandet. Hun har ikke noe annet valg enn å ta over bestefarens jobb: å frakte lokalbefolkningen over de vakre øyene i skjærgården i et vaklevorent gammelt fly. Det er litt av en kontrast til det fartsfylte, internasjonale livet hun er vant til.En dag blir det uvær, og Morag blir tvunget til å nødlande på en avsidesliggende øy. Plutselig befinner hun seg helt alene langt fra sivilisasjonen. Eller - ikke helt alene. For på øya bor den tøffe og tause ornitologen Gregor, som har ansvaret for fuglebestanden i sommersesongen.Selv om Morag og Gregor ikke har helt sansen for hverandre, blir Morag tvunget til å søke ly i hytta hans, og der må hun bli til hjelpen kommer. Uansett hvor lenge det måtte være ...

From New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan comes the debut novel that made her the sensation she is today--a hilarious, unforgettable story of one woman's mad dash to put a stop to the wedding of her old school friend who's the complete opposite of the sweet Scottish lord she's marrying.Amanda's old school friends, Mel and Fran, are shocked when the social-climbing queen of mean announces her engagement to a laird (Scottish lord). It doesn't matter that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse sneakers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one gas heater--she'll be the wife of an actual laird! But Mel and Fran can't just sit back and let the sweet and gentle Fraser marry Amanda, especially since Mel had a huge crush on him back in University. Something must be done! Joining forces with Fraser's adorable younger brother Angus, they set out to sabotage this mismatch of the century. So between fighting off the attentions of a love-crazed accountant, keeping Fran's deadly maneuvers' with the opposite sex under control and trying to win her own war of love with her aspiring rock-star beau, Mel finds herself preparing for a wedding that's everything you'd wish on your worst enemy.

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Lottie wants to build a new life for herself and her son Raffie. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where honking horns and shouting football fans keep them awake all night. If she doesn't find a way out soon, Lottie knows it's just a matter of time before she has a complete meltdown. On a whim, she answers an ad for a nanny job in the Scottish Highlands, which is about as far away from the urban crush of London as possible. It sounds heavenly! The job description asks for someone capable of caring for two...well, the advertisement says "gifted children"; the reality is more like "feral wolverines." The children's widowed father is a wreck, and the kids run wild in a huge tumbledown castle on the heather-strewn banks of Loch Ness. Still, the peaceful, picturesque location is everything London is not--and Lottie rises to the challenges of the job.With the help of Nina, the friendly local bookseller, Lottie begins to put down roots in the community. Are books, fresh air, and kindness enough to heal this broken family--and her own...?

Når veien til hjertet går gjennom en god bok.Alenemoren Zoe ønsker å skape et liv for seg og sønnen Hari utenom Londons hektiske storbyliv. Da hun får mulighet til å jobbe som barnepasser for en familie i det skotske høylandet, griper hun sjansen umiddelbart. Snart kommer hun til en nedslitt, men vakker herregård ved Loch Ness, bebodd av tre barn og en tafatt alenefar som ikke klarer å hanskes med dem. Etter hvert oppdager Zoe at hun ikke er den første barnepasseren de har hatt, og hun begynner også å skjønne hvorfor forgjengerne hennes har gitt opp.Zoe og Hari begynner snart å føle seg hjemme i byen, og særlig hyggelig er det å kunne hjelpe til i den lokale bokbussen. Men er bøker, frisk luft og omtanken fra nye venner nok til å holde ut den ufyselige familien?Den lille bokhandelen på stranden er andre bok i en hjertevarm serie fra den bestselgende forfatteren Jenny Colgan og en gavepakke til alle som drømmer om å nyte en bok og en kopp te på den skotske landsbygda.