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Connie Cooper should be basking in newlywed bliss. Instead, she’s frantically juggling a long-distance marriage, a busy singing career, and the small matter of her best friends’ wedding… which is in three weeks. In France. At Christmas. With absolutely nothing organised. When groomzillas...

Every book in the Highland Repair Shop series can be read as a standalone. It’s the first of December and the Highland Repair Shop is facing a fresh challenge: a storm has damaged the town’s beloved Christmas lights. With the clock ticking before the official switch-on, the workshop must...

Chrissie used to love Christmas in her Swiss childhood home… until she lost her husband eight years ago. Add in a prolonged conflict with her sister Meg, and the holidays in the snowy Alps are just too hard to face. Now she’s in quiet Oxfordshire, focused on her daughter Sarah’s wedding...

The war tightens its grip on Britain as the years progress, and the women of the Great Western Railway works must fight their own battles on the factory floor, in their homes and in their hearts. Lily has to stay strong for her young children while her husband is away at war. Maggie must endure...

This marriage is strictly a business deal. Zero romance and zero chance I’ll let a charming guy ruin everything again. Ten years ago I blew up my life on national television. Now I’m taking control of the narrative—buying a hockey team and trading on the sport’s popularity to guarantee...

At the heart of Maya Caruso's sharp, tender, insightful and wickedly ironic novel is Silvia Junior: a 42-year-old Italo-Australian workaholic who's nailed career success but flunked personal fulfilment. Romance? She ghosted it sometime after her divorce. Enter her mother, Silvia Senior: a...

Ein tiefes Zerwürfnis hatte die drei Freundinnen seit Kindertagen über Jahre getrennt. Erst der Tod der Vierten im Bunde, Marie, ein Jahr zuvor hatte sie schließlich wieder zusammengebracht. Jetzt steht das nächste Pfingsttreffen an. Seit ihrem Wiedersehen ist viel passiert: Alexandra hat gerade ihren Job als Verlegerin verloren. Jules Tochter Pia ist ungewollt schwanger. Und Friederike muss sich nun wohl endgültig von ihrem Lebenstraum verabschieden. Doch ihr Treffen im Haus am See setzt Kräfte frei, die ihrer aller Leben in gänzlich unerwartete Richtungen lenken.

'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' Alexander McCall Smith It is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has changed. Belier's Priory is now a hospital for wounded soldiers, and Sir Harry and Lady Waring have...

Quand sa fille et son gendre décident de placer Fanny, 82 ans, en maison de retraite et de la déloger de la rue Dante, c'est toute son existence qu'elle doit ranger : les haïkus de son grand amour Pierre, les Bulletins de l'Institut des Petites Sœurs où est née sa relation incandescente avec Maud, La Vie illustrée de Thérèse d'Avila qui fascinait les deux adolescentes, et l'impensable secret qui n'a cessé de l'habiter…

Wenn der Schnee in den Alpen bis ins Tal hinunter schmilzt, ist es soweit: Die Mutter erwacht aus ihrem Winterschlaf, den Kopf voller Träume der letzten Monate. Erwartet wird sie vom Großvater, umsorgt von ihren Kindern, den Zwillingen. Schon bald reisen die ersten Besucher an, denn die Träume der Mutter versprechen Rat und spenden Trost. So geht es Jahr für Jahr. Doch in diesem Sommer, dem zehnten der Zwillinge, wird sich alles ändern – und was die Mutter weissagt, wahr werden.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit Mother-Daughter Murder Night, a Reese’s Book Club pick, comes another fun, family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon. "Propulsive and page-turning...

Sometimes you have to go back to move forward. Laurie Kalama is starting over . . . right back where she began. She's building a new life for herself and her daughter—a life filled with independence, hope, and love. But now that the family home is more of a hotel than a safe haven, Laurie will...

The bonds between six women undergoing IVF are tested when one announces an unexpected birth in this absorbing, candid novel about what women endure to become mothers “Already a feminist sensation in South Korea, it’s candid, sharp and quietly devastating. And at just over 200 pages...

Una Lowe lives a perfectly edited life in London. Other than her best friend, she’s careful about who she lets in. Emotional complications are just that – complicated. That is, until she rescues a rare white swallow… who might have just flown in to change her life. Because, when her...

A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland. “This remarkable book contains multitudes. With wide-ranging intelligence and his trademark wit, Kurt Andersen has written...

Malavika Kannan establishes herself as an inimitable voice of Gen Z in this piercing coming-of-age debut novel. Which comes first: experience or narrative? Rishi thinks she knows the answer as she arrives on campus for her first year at Stanford. A burnt-out youth climate activist, she used to...

One honeymoon. One broken promise. One unforgettable escape. Alone on her dream Caribbean Christmas cruise after her husband’s betrayal, Hannah is determined to leave her heartbreak behind, honeymooning in solitude. Until she meets Captain Louis King - charming, confident, and completely...

'The perfect escape!' Jessica Redland Every book in the Brambleton series can be read as a standalone. Lauren Hope likes her life perfectly measured and ‘just so’. Running her cosy café in the idyllic Somerset village of Lower Brambleton provides all the fun and friendship she needs - from...

Hannah hat romantische Komödien, in denen ein Mann den Schlüssel zum Happy End einer Frau in der Hand hält, schon immer gehasst. Aber sie kann ihre Miete kaum noch bezahlen und die Wahl zwischen dem Zusammenleben mit einem Partner oder der eigenen stets kritischen Mutter ist nicht leicht. Als sie den wohlhabenden und von seiner eigenen Mutter geradezu besessenen Oscar kennenlernt, entschließt sie sich, ihm eine Chance zu geben.

A Christmas to remember... ... in a town she'd rather forget Holly Wynter never planned to return to Birchbrook. But when an old friend calls with a festive job opportunity, it could be just what her fledgling events business needs. So reluctantly, she agrees to return to create the world’s...