Uplifting Reads

Fans of Maeve Binchy will love the NO.1 BESTSELLER Roisin Meaney and this heart-warming story of love, friendship and fate set on Roone, a small island off the west coast of Ireland ... Nell Mulcahy grew up on the island so when the old stone cottage by the edge of the sea went up for sale, the...

As the blossom blooms on a quiet street in Notting Hill, a beautiful story of old love and new friendship is waiting to be discovered... Perfect for fans of The Keeper of Stories and The Reading List. Joan has spent too long alone with her treasured memories of the man she walked away from one...

Miracles are notoriously unreliable. But sometimes, just when they're needed, they turn up - although not always in the form that we expect ... 'A novel luminous with love and hope that will change the way you see the world.' Kathryn Heyman Awkward, hapless Marick is still struggling with the...

In this whip-smart romance, a woman desperate to keep her start-up afloat is forced to pose as her brother’s assistant during a tech competition, hoping a male-led company will be taken more seriously, only to find her secret identity compromised when she has a hot one-night stand with the...

Four sisters. A vast fortune. And a mother who thinks she knows best ... Where there's a will, there's a way. A funny, moving, brilliantly observed story about letting go of the past When multi-millionaire Jacki Turner is forced to take stock of her life, she sets her daughters a challenge - in...

It’s never too late for a second chance at love in this uplifting and warm-hearted ranch romance! When Juliet Scott falls for ruggedly handsome Pete while away travelling, she never imagines how different her life will be to that of her sister, successful and beautiful model Hero. Based on a...

Singles are coming into their own: Each year more and more people are single either by choice or by circumstance. This book celebrates the joys and challenges of living life single, and like its Chicken Soup predecessors, will be a source of inspiration, laughter, and wisdom.

‘Christmas magic! I laughed, I cried… this is the book you need!’ 5 stars, Netgalley reviewer A heartwarming Christmas novel about rediscovering past loves and remembering that home is where the heart is. It’s the beginning of December, and the town of Port Landon is covered with snow...

‘Delightfully romantic and touching.’ Phillipa Ashley on Sunrise at Butterfly Cove The most wonderful time of the year… Libby Stone has lived in Lavender Bay all her life. She loves the little seaside town and has big dreams to turn her father’s greasy old chippy into a dainty teashop...

‘Delightfully romantic and touching.’ Phillipa Ashley on Sunrise at Butterfly Cove Don’t miss Summer at Lavender Bay, the second book in the enchanting Lavender Bay trilogy! When Eliza Barnes said ‘I do’ to her husband all those years ago, she thought that they’d be together forever...

‘Delightfully romantic and touching.’ Phillipa Ashley A second chance by the sea? When Kiki Jackson’s marriage falls to pieces, there’s only one place that she knows she can escape to – her sister’s little guesthouse in Butterfly Cove. But she’s worried that turning up on...

All she wants for Christmas… 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 When talented artist Nee Sutherland returns to Butterfly Cove for her sister’s wedding, it’s only a matter of time before she has to face her own bridegroom – Luke Spenser – the man she impulsively married, then left in the middle of...

Freya and Joe’s marriage has fizzled its way to the end, but for financial reasons, and to support their daughter in her final year of school, they decide they need to keep living together for six months. They know it won’t be easy, but for Joe at least, it provides creative rewards: a...

From the moment they meet, Bella and Adam know this is no ordinary holiday romance. This is the real deal! But when they find out Adam’s father has died and he has inherited the penniless Lowbridge Loch Estate, their lives are changed in an instant. Bella suddenly finds herself dealing with...

When Aunt Meg leaves her cottage to Anna Redding in her will, Anna immediately packs up and heads to Polkerran, the Cornish fishing village where she was so happy as a child. With ambitions to turn the cottage into a B&B, a job working for the enigmatic historian, Oliver Seymour, and the return...

One Perfect Family . . . can bring a whole village together Lancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale. Tam knows he can be impulsive - his nickname isn't Crazy Tam for nothing!...

From the moment he sets his eyes on Ashley Oliver at sixth form on the cusp of the new millennium, Charlie falls in love. It isn’t all sunshine and roses though and it takes several years and more than one chance meeting before they begin their relationship. Will they survive everything the...

Can she learn to love again in a new home? Young widow Jasmine has sold her narrowboat to move to the picturesque village of Samphire Bay. She needs a fresh start, away from the memories of the unsolved hit-and-run which killed her husband. New neighbour Robin isn't pleased by her presence –...

Can she write her perfect love story? Austen Archer is on her dream solo bookselling holiday, the new ‘borrower’ at the Borrow-A-Bookshop in Devon’s Clove Lore. While she has always loved poetry, her words have dried up since being fired by her last boss, bestselling author, Callista Flyte...

A decade after they said goodbye after graduation, old friends Harri and Annie reunite in the beautiful village of Clove Lore in Devon – what more could these bookworms want than a holiday running the tumbledown bookshop? Unbeknownst to Annie, Harri is arriving with a bruised heart after the...