Author Jenny Colgan Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Date 1 November 2022 Edition Paperback Pages 355 Language English ISBN-13 978-0751584226 “Every time the bell dinged, Mr. McCredie would glance up in wonder and surprise, and Carmen would smile secretly to herself and make sure the lovely books were somewhere adults could pick them up and admire them.” (Quotation page 77) Content When her mother calls her in August, asking if she will come home for Christmas, Carmen June Hogan, nearly thirty years old, definitely is not ready to discuss a family meeting in Edinburgh a ..read more

Author Mandy Baggot Publisher Bookouture Date 2 October 2015 Edition Kindle edition Pages 490 (print version) Language English ASIN B013GSVDBW “In just a few days, she and Angel would be leaving it all behind and travelling thousands of miles across the ocean for Christmas in the Big Apple. Minus temperatures in double figures and streets full of Santas, Michael Bublé music and candy canes.” (Quotation page 12) Content Haley Walker lives in Salisbury. Her dream was to become a designer with her own creations, but now, with twenty-eight years, she is a single mother and ha ..read more

Author Zara Stoneley Publisher One More Chapter Date 2 September 2016 Edition Kindle Pages 338 (print version) Language English ASIN B01DT37Z5W “She got out of the car, tugged at her suitcase and tried not to grin, because that wouldn’t be fair. She was finally doing it. Finally going.” (Quotation page 52) Content Daisy Fischer is happy with her life, her little cottage near Tippermere and her animals. Until her long-term boyfriend Jimmy proposes and she has to admit to herself that she wants more from her life than just stay in the English countryside between house and p ..read more

Author Phillippa Ashley Publisher Avon Fiction Date 18 August 2018 Edition paperback Pages 400 Language English ISBN-13 978-0008253417 “It was such a lovely name; so evocative and catchy. Who could possibly resist popping into a place called ‘The Starfish Studio’?” (Quotation pos. 68) Content The moment Poppy McGregor sees the gallery “The Starfish Studio” for the first time during a holiday week with her boyfriend Dan at the Isles of Scilly; she immediately falls in love because it reminds her of her dreams to one day run a gallery. Now, three years later, Poppy and Dan ..read more

Author Tilly Tennant Publisher Sphere Date 28 November 2019 Edition Paperback Pages 352 Language English ISBN-13 978-0751578010 “Then stop second-guessing all the time and learn to live for the moment. You won’t see any of these people again after this week so who cares what they think?” (Page 174) Content Three years ago, Esme Greenwood had left for London, to live with her fiancée Warren. Three months ago she found out that he is married and went back to stay with her grandmother Mathilde at Thimble Cottage in Little Dove Morton, a small village. Soon it will be Christm ..read more

Author Phillipa Ashley Publisher Avon Date 18 September 2017 Edition Kindle Pages 402 (print version) Language English ASIN B074M2H758 “Every piece of tinsel, tree decoration and Santa/snowman/robin ornament they had had been dragged out of storage and used to adorn the rooms, private and public.” (Quotation page 229) Content Maisie Samson, forty years old on New Years Eve, which will be soon, is back at the family owned The Driftwood Inn on Gull Island, a small, quiet island, part of the Isles of Scilly. Used to work in a pub, she is now going to help her parents and tak ..read more

Author Kayte Nunn Publisher Orion Date 6 February 2020 Edition Paperback Pages 384 Language English ISBN-13 978-1409190561 “’Ex tenebris lux’, she read, running her fingers over the words. From the darkness into the light.” (Quotation page 356) Content When John Durrant takes his wife Esther on holiday in November 1951, she has to leave her son Teddy behind with his nanny and wonders, why they are visiting Cornwall and the rough, far away Isles of Scilly at this time of the year. At Embers Island, they meet Dr. Richard Creswell, an old friend of John, a psychiatrist with ..read more

Author Karen Swan Publisher Pan Main Market Edition Date 1 November 2018 Edition Paperback Pages 480 Language English ISBN-13 978-1509838080 “You need to know that your worst moment can turn out to be your best. In every life, there is a defining moment of surrender where you must make a choice to let Destiny happen.” (Quotation page 421) Content Just from a scuba expedition on Upolu Island, Samoa, Bo Laxley and her boyfriend Zac Austen now arrive in Alesund, Norway, to pass December and a romantic Christmas in a rural farmhouse, hidden in the breathtaking nature of the f ..read more

Author Carole Matthews Publisher Sphere Date 24 October 2013 Edition Paperback Pages 480 Language English ISBN-13 978-0751545586 “When I think of all the things I’ve forced myself to do in the last few weeks, I’m just adoring the new, creative me!” (Quotation page 59) Content Cassie Smith has been redundant for almost a year now and with Christmas soon coming around she is worried how to get into the happy Christmas spirit when money is so short. Watching adverts on how to celebrate Christmas, she has the perfect idea: there must be people who needed help with all this an ..read more

Author Jules Wake Publisher One More Chapter Date 20 October 2017 Edition Kindle Pages 481 (print version) Language English ASIN B06XRFWHRZ “From the end of November onwards, stepping out into Covent Garden is magical and as soon as December first hits, it’s positively enchanting.” (Citation page 167) Content Mathilde „Tilly“ Hunter loves her work as a make-up artist at London Metropolitan Opera and she is very talented and really qualified for her job.  But to get the career advancement she is hoping for, she needs to be familiar with modern technologies and compute ..read more