Harpercollins Christmas Carols and a Cornish Cream Tea McLaughlin Cressida

У Чарли есть новая помощница: её беззаботная и очаровательная кузина Делайла! Она приехала в корнуолльскую деревню Портголоу, чтобы работать на милом чайном автобусе Чарли - эдаком двухэтажном кафе на колёсиках • Когда режиссёр нового сериала, работа над которым идёт неподалёку, говорит Делайле, что автобус и кремовый чай на съёмочной площадке будут кстати, она ловит его на слове. Чарли с кузиной впутываются в съёмки помпезного исторического сериала, и вскоре Делайла начинает испытывать чувства к красавчику, играющему роль главного героя. Но опрометчивые решения для неё не в новинку - собственно, из-за одного такого решения она и очутилась в Корнуолле. Станет ли её готовность пойти на поводу у страсти очередным шагом на пути к катастрофе? Или началом совершенно нового этапа в её жизни? • Вторая книга серии "The Cornish Cream Tea"

Love is in the Cornish summer air… • Wedding planner Ellie Moon is dreaming up the most beautiful bespoke wedding for Charlie and Daniel, owners of Cornwall’s favourite cream tea bus. Even though her own life has been turned upside down and she’s had to rent out her charming Cornish cottage with its climbing roses and lavender beds, Ellie is determined to give them a day to remember • Her new tenant, handsome mechanic Jago, keeps popping up around the picture-postcard seaside village of Porthgolow. When they’re thrown together in the effort to help his elderly father get a spring back in his step, she discovers that he is full of surprises. Can romance bloom and give Ellie the fresh start she’s been wishing for?

The glittering new uplifting Christmas read from bestselling author Cressida McLaughlin • Ollie Spencer has started a new life in the idyllic Cornish seaside town of Port Karadow. Throwing herself into her job at the town’s bookshop, A New Chapter, is one way to make friends. The shop is glitzing up for first Christmas and Ollie hopes her inspired ideas will give the shop the edge it needs to dazzle the town • But far from being the Sugar Plum fairy the place needs, Ollie is fast becoming its Christmas pudding. With the bookshop’s success at stake, Ollie turns to twinkly-eyed cafe owner Max for help. Can he help Ollie to turn the page, and put the sparkle back into her Cornish dream?

Это будет незабываемое корнуоллское лето… • Тея Рашвуд с нетерпением ждала возможности исследовать красивое туристическое место Корнуолла — Порт-Карадоу, но ее подруга в последнюю минуту бросает учебу и Тее приходится ехать в одиночку. Приехав в свой уютный загородный коттедж, Тея обнаруживает строительную площадку по соседству. Тея и раздражающе привлекательный, но сварливый строитель Бен знакомятся не лучшим образом • Тея начинает задаваться вопросом, неужели ее идеальному побегу не суждено было случиться. И это еще до того, как она осознает, что Бен и сообщество — это нечто большее, чем она представляла поначалу. Перед ней во всей красе предстало волшебное корнуоллское лето, и Тея обнаруживает, что хочет, что это лето никогда не заканчивалось

Abby Field loves every inch of Meadowsweet Nature Reserve on the idyllic Suffolk coast where she lives and works. Especially Swallowtail House, the rambling but empty country house that seems to look out at her each time she passes it’s shut-up windows • When a TV wildlife programme choses a rival location for their new series, Meadowsweet is under threat – unless Abby can whip up a plan to keep the visitors flocking. But she finds herself distracted by the arrival of a brooding – and annoyingly handsome new neighbour… bad-boy novelist, Jack Westcoat • With the pressure on, Abby and her cute rescue huskie, Raffle, must pull something special out of the bag. But with Jack in need of a good friend – and Abby feeling the pull of attraction, she can sense her resolve fluttering away…

У турагента Гестер Мандэй есть небольшой секрет • Она боится полётов и не была на борту самолёта уже много лет. Но она хочет произвести хорошее впечатление на Джейка Окенфилда, нового клиента, пострадавшего во время героической попытки уберечь от беды старушку и застрявшего в отеле класса люкс • Джейк не может вернуться в Нью-Йорк, и смотреть сериалы ему тоже надоело. Ему нужен кто-то, кто может скрасить тоскливые дни, и он обращается к Гестер, чтобы она продумала для него идеальный маршрут и помогла ему воссоздать её захватывающие поездки по всему миру в стенах его номера • Но их развлечения начинают становиться чем-то большим, и Гестер начинает казаться, что её выдуманная жизнь становится слишком уж реальной • Насладитесь романтической комедией из-под пера Крессиды Маклафлин, автора ставшего бестселлером цикла "The Cornish Cream Tea"

A complete novel, first published as a four-part series • Summer Freeman returns to the waterside village of Summer Freeman returns to the waterside village of Willowbeck to rescue the Canal Boat Cafe, her late mother's picturesque narrowboat, which has run into choppy waters. A family friend, Valerie, has been trying to keep things afloat, but the coffee machine is jammed, the cake offerings are paltry, and not all of the locals want to see the cafe succeed • Help comes from the boat next door, in the shape of handsome wildlife photographer, Mason and his naughty Border Terrier, who are showing more than a passing interest in Summer and her adorable Bichon Frise, Latte. But is Mason being honest about himself? Or does he have something to hide? • As her life and the community of Willowbeck begin to entwine, Summer finds herself setting sail on a new adventure

Uplifting and heartwarming: drama, courage and romance at Marlow's department store this Christmas • For Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls at Marlow's Department store, another Christmas with ration books, shortages of goods and staff - not to mention a store coping with war damage - will be a real challenge • But the girls rally round and put their worries aside to make this, the hardest wartime Christmas yet, one that their families, and their town, will never forget

A brilliant new activity book containing over 100 stickers! Based on Judith Kerr’s beloved story The Tiger Who Came to Tea • Based on Judith Kerr’s best-loved story, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, this brilliant and fun-filled activity book is packed with games, puzzles, colouring in, and so much more! • Featuring artwork from the original story, celebrate the magic of teatime anew with this exciting activity book, full of things to do yourself or with an adult. Let’s count tea-time treats, create tiger-paw snacks, join the dots, spot the difference and stick, stick, stick with over 100 stickers! Bound to keep even the tiniest tigers busy, join Sophie, her mummy and the tiger and experience teatime as never before!

A wonderful Christmas gift full of nostalgia and charm, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love Fiction set in Wartime • Elsie Grimshaw lives in one of the worst streets in Weatherfield and is desperate to escape from life at home with a brutal father and the drudgery of working at the local mill. Grabbing at the slim chances that come her way, Elsie emerges from the heartbreak of first love and her marriage to bad boy, Arnold Tanner at only sixteen years old, if not much older, then certainly wiser • Going under her married name of Elsie Tanner, she and Arnold move in to No.11 Coronation Street in 1939 as war breaks out. Her cheeky self-confidence immediately puts her at loggerheads with local busy-body Ena Sharples and Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers Return

The East End of London has been devastated by the Blitz and the people are struggling to come to terms with their ravaged city. Rationing bites ever deeper and and everything that makes life better is in short supply. For the district nurses, the challenges are tougher than ever • Gladys loves her work in the Civil Nursing Reserve, but just when she needs to rely on her sister at home to help out with the chores, she turns into a handful of trouble. Edith is learning to cope with her boyfriend's injuries after Dunkirk but will she have to choose between her love for him and her career? • With no end in sight, the war reaches its darkest moment … Can the nurses – and the families and patients that rely on them – find the strength to carry on?

A furry feline tale from the creator of Mog the Forgetful Cat and The Tiger Who Came to Tea! • Grandpa has a black cat called Puss. They like eating bacon and chips together • The Jones family also have a black cat. They call him Twinkles • Lady Daisy found a lovely black cat outside her window one day, whom she calls Arthur • One day Twinkles, Arthur and Puss all disappear! As Grandpa, The Jones’ and Lady Daisy search everywhere for their cats, a hilarious plot unfolds. Whatever have Twinkles, Arthur and Puss been getting up to?