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A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape • Take one aspiring cook • When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition, she can't wait to put her cooking skills to the test • Add a very desirable judge • But as the competition heats up, she realises she's developing an inconvenient crush on one of the judges, the truly delicious Gideon Irving • Stir in a heaped tablespoon of romance • All too soon there's more than canapes, cupcakes and cordon bleu at stake • Will Zoe win the competition, or is Gideon one temptation too far?

Love, honour – and obey? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match • Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others – but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody, she decides she's had enough. So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime, she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple, and heads off to the land of opportunity • From the moment Sophie hits the bright lights of Manhattan she's determined to enjoy every minute of her big adventure. And when fate throws her together with Matilda, a spirited grande dame of New York society who invites her to Connecticut for Thanksgiving, she willingly accepts

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape • Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House, an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside • Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the twenty-first century • Bearing all the attributes of a modern-day Mr Rochester, Matthew Ballinger is less than happy with the whirlwind that has arrived on his doorstep • The last thing either of them want is to fall in love • But will a trip to France change their minds?

Will opening the door lead to love and happy endings? • Lorna and her friend Philly work together in the grounds of a beautiful manor house in the Cotswolds • But even though they are surrounded by family and friends, the door to true love remains resolutely closed - until the day they discover a beautiful secret garden deep in the manor's grounds • Could this be the sign that their luck is about to change?

May, Sally and Harriet have had enough • They may work at Quality Cleaners, but there is nothing quality about the way their boss, 'Slimeball' Slater, runs the business. Sick and tired of working for a crook, May, Sally and Harriet decide to set up their own business • Soon May finds she can afford the mooring fees for her beloved narrowboat, Harriet discovers she has a gift for painting, and Sally's dream of owning a place of her own is fast becoming a reality • It all seems to be going so well. But is it really? • And is it too much, May wonders, to want a man to share her newfound happiness?

A vintage wedding, romance, and a happily-ever-after ending - what more could you want from the 'modern-day Jane Austen'? • In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings • So they set up a business of their own: organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings • Soon they are busy arranging other people's Big Days • What none of them know is that their own romances are waiting just around the corner

Bidding for love can be a costly business... Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge extends only to the information she has crammed from daytime TV, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put out when she doesn't receive the warm country welcome she expected. Her curt cousin Charles and his fiancee Annabelle are determined to send Flora packing, and their offer to buy her out is tempting... until a strange warning makes her think twice. Stuck with a cat about to burst with kittens, Flora has little choice but to accept the offer to stay in an abandoned holiday cottage miles from any neighbours, let alone a trendy winebar

Fran has always wanted to be a farmer. And now it looks as if her childhood dream is about to come true • She has just moved to her aunt's beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds. If she can turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers • But Fran knows nothing about farming. She might even be afraid of cows • She'll need help, not just from her best friend Issi, but also from her wealthy and very eligible neighbour - who might just have his own reasons for being so supportive • Is it the farm he is interested in? Or Fran herself? • Warm, funny and wonderfully romantic, this is Katie Forde at her very best

Three years ago, Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart over Dominic Thane • Now she has a new job she loves, selling houses in the Cotswold countryside. And her boyfriend, Nevil, has just proposed • They're just right for each other, Bella tells herself. So why doesn't she feel happier? • Then Dominic turns up unexpectedly • And Bella begins to ask herself whether Nevil really is her perfect match after all

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! • Annis Wychwood delights in her independence • Beautiful, rich and far too busy for love, she has turned down the advances of many a hopeful suitor • But when she becomes entangled in the affairs of a runaway heiress, she encounters the girl's guardian, the notorious Oliver Carleton • While Oliver may be a reckless and uncivil rogue, Annis can't help but be drawn towards his wild ways

Sunderland, 1941 • As the world war continues the shipyard girls face hardships at home, but work and friendship give them strength to carry on • Gloria is smitten with her newly arrived bundle of joy, but baby Hope’s first weeks are bittersweet. Hope's father is missing at sea, and with their future as a family so uncertain, Gloria must lean on her girls for support • Meanwhile, head welder Rosie has turned her back on love to keep her double life secret. But her persistent beau is determined to find out the truth and if he does, it could ruin her • And there is finally a glimmer of hope for Polly and her family when Bel and Joe fall in love. But it isn’t long before a scandalous revelation threatens to pull them all apart

The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared • Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from Galahad Threepwood (who is writing memoirs so scandalous they will rock the aristocracy to its foundations) to the Efficient Baxter, chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarence's arch-rival, and his passion for prize-winning pigs? This comic masterpiece is vintage Blandings, and P.G. Wodehouse at his best