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A thriving bakery. A lighthouse to call home. A handsome beekeeper. A pet puffin. These are the things that Polly Waterford can call her own. This is the beautiful life she leads on a tiny island off the southern coast of England. But clouds are gathering on the horizon. A stranger threatens to ruin Polly's business. Her beloved boyfriend seems to be leading a secret life.

Though Polly is busy keeping up with the demands of the season, she still makes time for her beekeeper boyfriend, Huckle. She's especially happy to be celebrating the holiday this year with him and can't wait to cuddle up in front of the fireplace with a cup of eggnog on Christmas Eve. But holiday bliss soon gives way to panic when a storm cuts the village off from the mainland. Now it will take all of the villagers to work together in order to ensure everyone has a happy holiday.

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.

Née dans une famille d'illustres pilotes des Highlands, Morag MacIntyre a toujours su qu'elle passerait sa vie dans les nuages : un rêve détruit par un accident traumatisant qui l'empêche désormais de monter dans un cockpit. Quand son grand-père malade lui demande de gérer MacIntyre Air le temps de son rétablissement, elle accepte de reprendre les commandes de Dolly, le vieil avion à hélice familial, pour assurer les livraisons dont dépendent les habitants d'un petit archipel au large de l'Écosse.

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.

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.

Camille Coduri reads this brand new novelisation of the Tenth Doctor’s first adventure. Earth is under attack by power-hungry aliens. This is no time for the Doctor to be out of action. When a British space probe is intercepted by a sinister alien vessel on the eve of Christmas, it marks the beginning of an audacious invasion of the Earth by the Sycorax - horrifying marauders from beyond the stars. Within hours, a third of humanity stands on the brink of death with not a single shot fired.

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. Rosie's life is...comfortable. And even though she might like to pursue a more rewarding career, and Gerard doesn't seem to have any plans to propose, Rosie's not complaining. Things could be worse. Right? Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. When her great-niece Rosie arrives to help her with the shop, Lilian struggles with the idea.

Once upon a time, Issy Randall was the girl nobody wanted. But when she opened the Cupcake Café, her life changed - and now Issy is happy, confident, and in love with a wonderful man raising his young brother after the death of their parents. Is life about to change again? With the holidays approaching, cracks show in Issy's perfect world. Her boyfriend, Austin, has been scouted for a possible move to New York City. Her colleagues at the Cupcake Café are suffering heartbreak. And as Christmas looms ever closer, Issy finds herself forced to decide what she holds most dear.

Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David—the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie’s feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking you in two directions at once?

It's a time for getting cozy in front of whisky barrel wood fires and enjoying a dram and a treacle pudding with the people you love - unless, of course, you've accidentally gotten pregnant by your ex-boss and don't know how to tell him. In the season for peace and good cheer, will Flora find the nerve to reveal the truth to her nearest and dearest? Will her erstwhile co-parent, Joel, think she’s the bearer of glad tidings - or is this Christmas going to be as bleak as the Highlands in midwinter?

Maggie Adair’s first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she’s learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls’ boarding school by the sea. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie’s just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys’ school down the road. Well, hasn’t she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well Behaved Teacher’s exercise book and stick to her plan for a small but elegant wedding and settled life of matrimony?

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.

Gertie Mooney a toujours eu la tête dans les nuages. Depuis son plus jeune âge, elle se demande à quoi ressemblerait sa vie si elle avait le courage de quitter son village natal au nord de l'Écosse. Mais à trente ans, Gertie vit toujours dans le cottage familial avec sa mère et sa grand-mère, où les habituées de leur cercle de tricot viennent tous les jours s'adonner à leur passion de la pelote. Le jour où elle voit une annonce pour un appartement au centre-ville, elle tente sa chance et tombe sur Morag, une amie d'école devenue pilote de ligne, qui convoite aussi le logement.

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.

It's true that Anna Trent is a supervisor in a chocolate factory...but that doesn't necessarily mean she knows how to make chocolate. And when a fateful accident gives her the opportunity to work at Paris's elite chocolatier Le Chapeau Chocolat, Anna expects to be outed as a fraud. After all, there is a world of difference between chalky, mass-produced English chocolate and the gourmet confections Anna's new boss creates. But with a bit of luck and a lot of patience, Anna might learn that the sweetest things in life are always worth working for.

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.

Ils vivent à 800 km l'un de l'autre. Pourtant, leurs vies sont sur le point d'entrer en collision... Lissa adore son travail d'infirmière, mais depuis quelque temps, elle s'occupe davantage des autres que d'elle-même. Après un incident traumatisant au travail qui la laisse accablée, elle accepte d'échanger sa vie pendant trois mois avec un inconnu qui vit dans un village tranquille d'Écosse. Cormac est impulsif. Tout juste sorti de l'armée, il a désespérément besoin de distraction, et il n'y en a guère à Kirrinfief. Peut-être trois mois à Londres sont-ils exactement ce dont il a besoin ?

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.

In her comfy cottage nestled in the Derbyshire hills, Rosie Hopkins has good reason to feel a warm blush in her cheeks. With Christmas weeks away, the holiday is being ushered in with England’s first glorious snowfall of the season. Her boyfriend Stephen is starting his new job as a teacher in the village school. Her quaint Sweetshop and Confectionery has been restored to its former glory, and she has a loveable mop of a new puppy named Mr. Dog. Most joyous of all, Rosie and Stephen’s relatives will finally be gathering together in Lipton for what is sure to be a merry feast.