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Wrapped up in You
A Christmas fling, or has Janie found the real thing?
Thirty-something hairdresser Janie Johnson’s single status is a constant source of gossip for her friends and clients. So after too many nights in with her cat, a blind date disaster and news that her ex is getting married, Janie realises it’s time to do something dramatic with her life.
It’s time for an adventure!
Leaving winter behind, Janie takes the plunge and books an exotic trip to Africa. Her friends think she’s mad and Janie thinks they may very well be right… but then she falls head over heels for her tour guide – and fully fledged Maasai Warrior – Dominic. But can Janie now face spending a snowy Christmas back home without him?
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It’s Now or Never
Ever felt that it’s time to turn your life around?
When twins Annie and Lauren attend their older sister Chelseas’ fortieth birthday party at the Dorchester Hotel, they wonder why their lives are so different. Why is Chelsea’s devoted husband twirling her round the dance floor, while Annie’s husband has gone fishing and Lauren’s lover is at home with his wife and children?
There and then, they decide it’s time to turn things around. To go all out for what they want, to start living again. The question is: have they left it too late?
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The Difference a Day Makes
You just never know what the difference a day can make. What would you do if your life was turned upside down and everything that you’d ever relied on was taken away from you? That’s the dilemma that faces Amy Ashurst…
One day she had everything – the next it was gone.
William and Amy Ashurst are typical townies, but when Will collapses on his way into work he decides to move to the country.
Three months later, Amy is standing outside Helmshill Grange, a sullen monstrosity of a house, deep in the Yorkshire moors. Within days, Will’s traded in their brand-new Audi for a clapped-out Land Rover, and brought home chickens, goats, sheep, a serial-killer cat and a mad dog. Then tragedy strikes and Amy finds that she’s living a dream but it’s not her own…
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The Chocolate Lovers’ Diet
Survival tips for times of stress:
- Take deep breaths
- Count to ten
- Eat chocolate
Whenever the four members of The Chocolate Lovers’ Club call an emergency meeting there’s barely time to count to ten before one of them gives in to chocolate…
Lucy Lombard thought her ‘Happily Ever After’ was all sewn up when her gorgeous boss Aidan declared his love for her, but she’s just caught him in bed with another woman. As always, she’s not the only one with problems – Autumn’s new boyfriend has yet to meet her parents, Nadia’s husband swears he’s given up gambling but she just can’t trust him, and Chantal is hoping to save her marriage, but not in quite the way she’d expected. It’s not surprising that these girls are going to need a lot of chocolate to see them through the challenges that lie ahead…
Following on from Carole Matthews’ hilarious novel The Chocolate Lovers’ Club the unforgettable four members are about to sort their lives out once and for all.
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The Chocolate Lovers’ Club
Forget Diamonds – Chocolate is a girl’s best friend…
Some women are addicted to shopping, others can’t get enough of champagne. Some like to curl up with a good book and others want a night out on the town. But there’s just one thing Lucy Lombard can’t live without and that’s chocolate – rich, creamy, sweet, delicious chocolate.
For her there’s no substitute. There’s nothing it won’t cure, from heartache to a headache, and she’s not alone. Sharing her passion are three other addicts: Autumn, Nadia and Chantal. Together they form a select group known as The Chocolate Lovers’ Club. Whenever there’s a crisis, they meet in their sanctuary, a café called Chocolate Heaven, and with a cheating boyfreind, who promises he’ll change; a flirtatious boss; a gambling husband and a loveless marriage, there’s always plenty to discuss…
By turns hilarious and heart-rending, The Chocolate Lovers’ Club brings together four unforgettable women from totally different worlds united in their passion for chocolate.
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Welcome to the Real World
Fern Kendal has the voice of an angel but, as a badly paid barmaid and pub singer, she’s going nowhere. Then she enters the TV talent show Fame Game and this could be her big break. If only, in the real world, things were that simple.
Evan David’s exquisite tones have enthralled opera buffs throughout the world. His agent, his coach, his chauffeur and his chef are just a few of those who pander to his every need. But what Evan needs now is a break – from it all.
When Fern is picked to be Evan’s assistant their two worlds collide and neither one is prepared for the dramatic effect they will have on each other. For something happens when they are together – and it’s more than just music…
Welcome to the Real World is an irresistibly romantic story of what happens when two people from totally different worlds can’t help falling in love…
Welcome To The Real World… where dreams sometimes come true!
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With or Without You
When you follow your heart, you never know where it might lead you…
When Jake tells Lyssa it’s not working, she knows he’s not talking about the toaster. What she doesn’t realise is that he has been seduced by another woman.
Lyssa’s immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait for Jake to come home with his tail between his legs. But slowly she understands that’s not an option. In a bid to escape, she embarks on a trekking holiday in Nepal. Her sister teases her that she’ll meet a hairy-arsed yak shepherd – but it never occurs to Lyssa that in the Himalayan foothills she might fall in love…
When it’s time to go home- back to reality and a very sheepish Jake – Lyssa has to face the hardest choice of her life.
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More to Life Than This
Kate Lewis is thirty-five and feeling restless. Her husband Jeffrey is keen on gardening and golf; her children are obsessed with well-balanced diets; and Kate’s main worry is when to do the ironing. There must be more to life than this!
Enrolling on a T’ai Chi course at Northwood Priory with her best friend Sonia – and arranging for an au pair to look after Jeffrey and the children while she’s away – Kate is off to find herself. But, as things turn out finding herself isn’t easy to do, particularly when Ben Mahler is on her course…
A wickedly fun cocktail of wit and romance…
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A Minor Indiscretion
From the USA Today bestselling author of the Reading with Ripa Book Club pick, For Better, For Worse comes a provocative tale of midlife temptation, told with incomparable warmth, wit and wisdom by one of Britain’s brightest romantic comediennes…
In a moment of madness, Ali Kingston, wife and mother of three skips work to spend the day with Christian, a gorgeous street artist fifteen years her junior. Midlife crisis or whatever, it escalates when Ali’s husband, Ed, equates her minor indiscretion with a major affair and kicks her out into the rainy night… and Christian’s open arms. Soon thirty-eight-year-old Ali is ensconced in a Notting Hill love nest wondering how to introduce her children to the charismatic Christian, who could easily have been her teenage daughter’s boyfriend rather than her own.
Meanwhile back at the house in suburban Richmond, Ed is also facing unanticipated temptations as two younger women compete to console him for the loss of his wife, while family and friends attempt to reunite him with Ali… with deliciously droll results. Then a disconcerting event forces both Ed and Ali to decide what they really want – from themselves, from each other and from life itself.
A comic tale of how a simple error in judgement turns a seemingly happy couple from compatible to combatable!
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Let’s Meet on Platform 8
Teri Carter thinks she’s found the one, but is it possible that someone else has found him first?
After knowing her down while rushing to catch the 6.07 from London, Jamie Duncan bandages Teri Carter’s knee, buys her new stockings, seats her on the train with her foot in his lap and taxis her home from the station. Who says chivalry is dead?
Not only is Jamie a romantic hero – tall, dark, with greeny-gold eyes and a Scottish burr – he’s witty, charming and eager to share their daily commute. Suddenly Teri’s life is Brief Encounter meets Wuthering Heights. But then she discovers Mr Right is also Mr Married. Jamie’s not the type to cheat, and Teri doesn’t want him to… or does she? After dating Mr Lazy, Mr Greedy, Mr Completely Selfish and Mr Downright Pervert, can she renounce Mr Perfect?
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The Sweetest Taboo
Love can be big trouble – especially when a girl has two men to chose from…
Falling in love is never easy…
Sadie Nelson ought to know – she’s got two men to choose from and neither one is hassle-free. First there’s Gill McGann, a Hollywood producer who’s flown her from a grey day in London to sun-soaked LA in order to win her heart. He has more to offer Sadie than she could ever have imagined – including a sticky ex.
Then there’s gorgeous actor Tavis Jones, whose sense of fun makes Sadie feel immediately at home. But can they ever be more than just good friends?
The longer she leaves it, the harder it gets, and Sadie’s about to discover that in LA anything can happen….
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The Scent of Scandal
Love stinks!
It does when you find out that the guy you’re head-over-heels about is already married. That’s when Rose Stevens decides to escape her problems and flee to a remote country village. All she wants is peace and quiet, but the quaint, eccentric villagers of Great Brayford have other ideas.
Rose is amazed that her occupation as an aromatherapist is causing such consternation among the townsfolk, when what else goes on within the village limits seems so much worse: there’s a housewife who’s a hooker, a sex-starved neighbour and a troublesome peeping Tom.
Beneath the all-pervasive aroma of garden lavender there’s a distinct scent of scandal here, and Rose thinks that her small transgressions seem paltry in comparison – until she starts to get intimately involved with the sexy local builder… and her ex-lover arrives out of nowhere with a shocking announcement… and she unwittingly finds herself in the center of a chaotic, rumor-fed hurricane of scandal that ensures her life is even more complicated than it was before. But maybe that’s also because she’s in love again.
A riotously funny romance of misunderstandings and mayhem…
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Bare Necessity
International bestselling author Carole Matthews has once again taken America by storm with a rollicking and outrageously delightful novel about surviving the most ridiculous downturns life can throw at you. and exposing the opportunities.
Once Emily Miller thought that losing her boyfriend Declan would be the worst thing that could happen. Of course, that was before she learned that the lowlife cad had secretly mortgaged their dream house, run up their shared debts. and posted a picture of her on the internet that would make a rugby team blush. Still, she is coping masterfully, despite losing her home and her dignity – until the local newspapers get wind of the story.
So here she is – homeless, jobless, loverless. and scandalous at thirty-two. Her best friend Cara thinks yoga, aromatherapy and the perfection potion will turn Emily’s karma around. Why not, Emily figures. It might help to attract that handsome stranger she’s just barely met. Either that, or she’ll hunt down the elusive Mr Right herself. After all, there isn’t much else that could possibly go wrong.
And sometimes when you’ve got absolutely nothing left to lose. that’s when you get everything you ever wanted!
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For Better for Worse
When it comes to love and marriage, Josie Flynn knows what’s right…
For everyone but herself…
After her marriage to Damien ended in disaster, Londoner Josie Flynn – thirtysomething and single again – is flying across the ocean to her American cousin’s ‘big mistake’ wedding. In her present ‘love stinks’ frame of mind, the last person she expects to be seated next to on the flight is someone like Matt Jarvis. A recently divorced rock journalist, Matt is sensitive, good-looking and remarkably attentive – and before their plane touches down, Josie’s smitten. So how can she hope to convince her cousin to cut and run when Josie is all ready to leap into love again – with a stranger, no less, who might be just another Mr Totally Wrong in Mr Seductively Right’s clothing?
The point is rendered moot, of course, once they land in New York and she and Matt go their separate ways. After all Josie’s got prenuptial confabs to worry about and that dreaded lilac chiffon bridesmaid’s dress to wear. But Dante himself couldn’t have dreamed up the hell this wedding is proving to be – and when her dream hunk reappears and throws himself into the mix, Josie finds herself wondering how she – or any unattached modern woman – can hope to survive the new romantic rules of the twenty-first century.
A bestseller in the UK, Carole Matthews ‘For Better, For Worse’ is a deliriously droll, dead-on tale of marriage, sex, monogamy and modern love…
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Girls Night In
In this must-have short-story collection, Carole Matthews charts a story of a journey of discovery through China. Jennifer Weiner revisits one of her Good in Bed characters, Jill A Davis (Girl’s Poker Night) offers a darkly humorous take on starting over in New York and Alisa Valdes-Rodriquez (The Dirty Girls Social Club) muses on how different the words lady and woman are when paired with cat.
Girls’ Night In showcases stories about growing up, growing out of, moving out, moving on, falling apart and getting it all together. So turn off your cell phone and curl up on the couch: this is one Girls’ Night In you won’t want to miss!
Girls’ Night In also features: Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Louise Bagshaw, Emily Barr, Jenny Colgan, Lynda Curnyn, Adele Lang, Chris Manby, Anna Maxted, Stella Duffy, Lauren Henderson, Lisa Jewell, Marian Keynes, Megan McCafferty, Sarah Mylnowski and Isabel Wolff.
War Child is an international relief and development agency dedicated to providing immediate, effective and sustainable aid to some of the most vulnerable children caught up in conflict around the world.
All net proceeds go to War Child
For further information visit www.warchildusa.org
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Girls Night Out
Too tired to doll up and head out for a night on the town? (it happens to the best of us.) Just dip into this year’s must-read collection for a Girls’ Night Out to remember and indulge in tales of reunion and weddings, sisters and friends, endings and beginnings… No waiting in line, no wardrobe malfunctions, no jockeying for position as you try to catch the bartender’s eye. With a lineup of fantastic writers like Carole Matthews (With or Without You), Meg Cabot (The Boy Next Door), EmilyGiffin (Something Borrowed), Kristen Gore (Sammy’s Hill), Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (The Nanny Diaries), Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (The Dirty Girls’ Social Club) and Lolly Winston (Good Grief), you’ll be hanging with the VIPs all night long!
The Girls’ Night Out series also features: Jessica Adams, Cecelia Ahern, Maggie Alderson, Tilly Bagshawe, Elizabeth Buchan, Laura Cauldwell, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Kathleen DeMarco, Nicki Earls, Imogen Edwards-Jones, Wendy French, Robyn Harding, Wendy Holden, Lauren Henderson, Marian Keynes, Chris Manby, Anna Maxted, Sarah Mylnowski, Adele Parks and Pamela Ribon.
War Child is an international relief and development agency dedicated to providing immediate, effective and sustainable aid to some of the most vulnerable children caught up in conflict around the world.
All net proceeds go to War Child
For further information visit www.warchildusa.org
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