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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.

La jeune Flora MacKenzie travaille à Londres dans un cabinet d'avocats. Jamais elle n'avait imaginé que son emploi la conduirait à retourner sur son île natale, au nord de l'Écosse. Une île qu'elle a brutalement quittée après la mort de sa mère, quelques années plus tôt.

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.

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.

On the tiny, beautiful, and remote island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, a new hotel opening is a big event. New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas. The new hotel’s impressive kitchens throw together two unlikely new friends: Isla Gregor is the hardworking young girl who has been a waitress in the island's cafe, dreaming of a bigger, better life. Konstantin Pederson is working his way up in the hotel's kitchens too…but he is also, secretly, the only son of the Duke of Utsire.

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 ?

This collection includes four classic TV novelisations in which the Doctor and friends are witnesses to alien invasion.

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?

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.

Exclusive interview. Best-selling author Jenny Colgan joins Maddie Hickish in the Audible Studios to talk about her work.

For the first time, the girls caught sight of the turreted, castle-like building that would be home for the next nine months, the four towers of the main houses nestled in the hills, with the cliffs behind, leading down to the still turquoise sea. Maggie loves teaching English at beautiful Downey House but she is less keen on planning her wedding to dependable Stan. Instead, she's working on ignoring her crush on David McDonald, who teaches English at the local boys' school.

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.

Et si cette petite librairie dans les Highlands écossais était le secret du bonheur et d'une nouvelle vie ? Un feel good book enthousiasmant ! Nina est fière de travailler à la bibliothèque de Birmingham, mais elle se rend compte qu'au lieu de vivre au milieu des livres qu'elle adore, elle passe surtout son temps dans l'arrière-salle à faire de l'informatique. Tout ce qui faisait sa joie a disparu et lui manque terriblement : le contact avec les gens, papoter avec les habitués, s'assurer que chaque lecteur va trouver le livre qui lui convient...

En s'installant sur l'île de Mure, au nord de l'Écosse, Flora et Joel ont tout laissé derrière eux. La grisaille, le stress londonien... Mais pourquoi cette bougeotte chez Joel ? Pas une semaine sans qu'il prévoie un aller-retour à New York... Regretterait-il son choix ?

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.

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.

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.

Marisa Rosso can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth - the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, while carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by.

From New York Times best-selling author Jenny Colgan comes a hilarious romantic comedy about a down-on-her-luck florist whose future begins to bloom when she takes on the challenge of helping to transform her nerdy roommate.

In the northernmost reaches of Scotland, where a string of little islands in the North Sea stretches towards Norway, lives Gertie MacIntyre, a proud island girl by birth. Her social circle is small but tight: family and friends, particularly the women in her knitting circle. In the whitewashed cottages of their hometown, everyone knows everyone, and the ladies of the knitting circle know more than most. In a place of long dark winters and geographic isolation, the knitting circle is a precious source of gossip, home, laughter, and comfort for them all.