Sphere Little Beach Street Bakery Колган Дженни

When she is given the opportunity to move to a remote tidal island off the Cornish Coast, Marisa Rossi decides some peace and quiet might be just what she needs • Since the death of her beloved grandfather back in Italy, she's been struggling to find a way out of her grief. Perhaps this will be the perfect place for her to recuperate • But Mount Polbearne is a far cry from the sleepy little place she was imagining. Between her noisy piano-teaching Russian neighbour and the hustle and bustle of a busy community, Marisa finds solitude is not so easy to come by. Especially when she finds herself somehow involved with a tiny local bakery desperately in need of some new zest to save it

Когда ей предоставляется возможность переехать на отдаленный приливный остров у побережья Корнуолла, Мариса Росси решает, что немного тишины и покоя, - именно то, что ей нужно • Но Маунт-Полберн далек от того сонного местечка, которое она себе представляла. Мариса обнаруживает, что уединиться не так-то просто из-за шумной соседки, преподающей русский язык по классу фортепиано, и суеты оживленного сообщества. Особенно когда она обнаруживает, что каким-то образом связана с крошечной местной пекарней, отчаянно нуждающейся в какой-то новой изюминке, чтобы спасти ее • Свернитесь калачиком и позвольте себе получить удовольствие от романа Дженни Колган "Восход солнца у моря" • Книга на английском языке • When she is given the opportunity to move to a remote tidal island off the Cornish Coast, Marisa Rossi decides some peace and quiet might be just what she needs

Singapore, 1897 • Harriet and Mae Grafton are twenty-year-old identical twins born from a scandalous affair. They grew up in India slighted by gossip and ostracised from polite society. They had each other and that was enough. But when their wealthy benefactor sends them to Singapore, they meet the mysterious Alex Blake and their relationship fractures with devastating consequences • 1941 • Ivy Harcourt is posted to wartime Singapore amid the looming threat of Japanese invasion. Ivy knows the island will be a far cry from war-torn London, but she is totally unprepared for what awaits her: strangers from her grandmother Mae's past, an unstoppable love affair and a shattering secret that's been waiting to be uncovered • Vivid, authentic and utterly beautiful - with a sizzling love affair playing out against sisterly rivalry and epic family drama - Island in the East is romantic historical fiction at its very best

A beautiful and heart-wrenching story of love and betrayal, set against a backdrop of British-occupied Egypt. Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop, Dinah Jefferies and Leah Fleming. When twenty-two-year-old Olivia is coerced into marriage by the cruel Alistair Sheldon she leaves England for Egypt, his home and the land of her own childhood. Reluctant as she is to go with Alistair, it's in her new home that she finds happiness in surprising places: she is reunited with her long-estranged sister, Clara, and falls - impossibly and illicitly - in love with her husband's boarder, Captain Edward Bertram • Then Clara is abducted from one of the busiest streets in the city. Olivia is told it's thieves after ransom money, but she's convinced there's more to it

Zoe is a single mother, sinking beneath the waves trying to cope by herself in London. Hari, her gorgeous little boy is perfect in every way - except for the fact that he just doesn't speak, at all. When her landlord raises the rent on her flat, Zoe doesn't know where to turn • Then Hari's aunt suggests Zoe could move to Scotland to help run a bookshop. Going from the lonely city to a small village in the Highlands could be the change Zoe and Hari desperately need • Faced with an unwelcoming boss, a moody, distant bookseller named Ramsay Urquart, and a band of unruly children, Zoe wonders if she's made the right decision. But Hari has found his very first real friend, and no one could resist the beauty of the loch glinting in the summer sun. If only Ramsay would just be a little more approachable

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. Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark - but will it be at the expense of her relationship with safe, dependable Stan? • Simone has won a scholarship and wants to make her parents proud. Forced to share a room with the glossy, pretty, clever girls of Downey House, she needs to find a friend, fast • Fliss is furious at being sent away from her home. As Simone tries desperately to fit in, Fliss tries desperately to get out

Escape to the Scottish Highlands where a tiny bookshop perches on the edge of a loch • Zoe is a single mother, sinking beneath the waves trying to cope by herself in London. Hari, her gorgeous little boy is perfect in every way - except for the fact that he just doesn't speak, at all. When her landlord raises the rent on her flat, Zoe doesn't know where to turn • Then Hari's aunt suggests Zoe could move to Scotland to help run a bookshop. Going from the lonely city to a small village in the Highlands could be the change Zoe and Hari desperately need • Faced with an unwelcoming boss, a moody, distant bookseller named Ramsay Urquart, and a band of unruly children, Zoe wonders if she's made the right decision. But Hari has found his very first real friend, and no one could resist the beauty of the loch glinting in the summer sun

Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she's been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives with someone in a quiet village in Scotland • Cormac is restless. Just out of the army, he's desperately in need of distraction, and there's precious little of it in Kirrinfief. Maybe three months in London is just what he needs • As Lissa and Cormac warm to their new lives, emailing back and forth about anything and everything, finally things seem to be falling into place. But each of them feel there's still a piece missing. What - or who - could it be?

On the tiny Scottish island of Mure, Christmas preparations are even more hectic than usual • Flora MacKenzie is worried about her brother. Fintan hasn't got over the death of his partner, Colton, and Flora thinks he needs a project • The Rock - the rambling, disused hotel on the tip of the island - was Colton's passion project before he died. With Flora's help, Fintan is going to get the hotel up and running in time for Christmas, transforming it into a festive haven of crackling log fires and delicious food. But running a hotel, they are about to discover, is not that easy. Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef, a spoilt Norwegian kitchen boy who can't peel a potato without mutilating his own hand and a painfully shy kitchen assistant who blushes when anyone speaks to her

As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate; made entirely by hand, it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris • It's a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in at home in the north of England. But when an accident changed everything, Anna was thrown back in touch with her French teacher, Claire, who offered her the chance of a lifetime - to work in Paris with her former sweetheart, Thierry, a master chocolatier • With old wounds about to be uncovered and healed, Anna is set to discover more about real chocolate - and herself - than she ever dreamed

Впервые в жизни девочки увидели похожее на замок место, где им придётся жить следующие девять месяцев. Четыре главных дома с их башнями возвышаются среди холмов, а поблизости красуются утёсы и бирюзовое море • Мэгги нравится преподавать английский в живописном интернате, а вот планировать свадьбу с её верным и стабильным Стэном ей не очень-то хочется. Вместо этого она вовсю пытается игнорировать чувства, которые она испытывает к Дэвиду МакДональду, учителю английского в местной школе для мальчиков • Симона и Флис наконец-то подружились, но из-за приезда Зельды всё идёт наперекосяк: она очень по-американски любит шум и гламур и сразу же придумывает много способов разнообразить жизнь в скучной школе. Скоро тихая скромница Симона преобразится, а Флис рискнёт всем ради мальчика

Эви отчаянно нуждается в хорошем отдыхе. Не только потому, что она работала множество часов ресепшионисткой на двух продуктивных пластических хирургов, но также из-за того, что каждый отдых в ее жизни сопровождался солнечным ожогом, спорами и реактивной рвотой, а иногда и всем сразу. Почему она не может отдохнуть нормально, как все: мирные пляжи, прекрасный солнечный свет и (скрестить пальцы) немного очень нужного секса? • Поэтому когда работодатели Эви приглашают ее посетить конференцию вместе с ними в великолепной Южной Франции, она не может поверить своей удаче. В конце концов, шанс пообщаться с богатыми и гламурными, тусоваться под звездами, пожить, как она всегда мечтала. Это отдых всей ее жизни, но вещи случаются не совсем так, как Эви себе представляет… • Evie is desperate for a holiday - a good one