Ever dreamed of starting over?
Issy Randall can bake. No, more than that – Issy can create stunning, mouth-wateringly divine cakes. After a childhood spent in her beloved Grampa Joe’s bakery she has undoubtedly inherited his talent. So when she’s made redundant from her safe but dull City job, Issy decides to seize the moment and open up her own café. It should be a piece of cake, right?
Wrong. As her friends point out, she has trouble remembering where she left her house keys, let alone trying to run her own business. But Issy is determined. Armed with recipes posted to her from Grampa, and with her local bank manager fighting her corner, Issy attempts to prove everyone wrong. Following your dreams is never easy and this is no exception. Can Issy do it?
Posy is delighted when Matt proposes – on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But then disaster strikes and he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts thinking. Why has her love life always, ALWAYS ended in total disaster? Determined to discover how she got to this point, Posy resolves to track down her exes …
Is there hope for Matt, or will she fall back in love with an old flame? What about Lord Voldemort, the old boyfriend that cannot be named? And could Posy face up to the idea that, actually, one day she could live life on her own terms?
What does an It girl do if she loses all her money?
Sophie Chesterton is a girl about town – she knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, and wears all the right clothes. But deep down she suspects that her best friends are actually rather nasty, and that her lifestyle doesn’t really amount to much. Her father wants her to make her own way in the world. to make him proud. But after one shocking evening her life is changed for ever.
Scraping a living as an assistant to a ‘glamour’ photographer; living in a hovel on the Old Kent Road with four smelly boys; eating baked beans from the can – this is one spectacular fall from grace. Sophie is desperate to get her life back – but does a girl really need diamonds to be happy?
Full of warmth and humour, Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend is the charming new comedy from the wonderful Jenny Colgan.
Evie needs a good holiday. Not just because she’s been working all hours in her job, but also because every holiday she has ever been on in her life has involved sunburn, arguments and projectile vomiting – sometimes all three at once. Why can’t she have a normal holiday, like other people seem to have – some sun, sand, sea and (hopefully) sex?
So when her employers invite her to attend a conference with them in the south of France, she can’t believe her luck. It’s certainly going to be the holiday of a lifetime – but not quite in the way Evie imagines!
‘Colgan at her warm, down-to-earth best’ Cosmopolitan
‘A Colgan novel is like listening to your best pal spilling the latest gossip – entertaining, dramatic and frequently hilarious’ Daily Record
‘Chick-lit with an ethical kick’ Mirror
‘With scalpel-sharp dialogue and witty one-liners, this will have you grinning from ear to ear’ Daily Record
‘An entertaining read’ Sunday Express
‘Jenny Colgan’s latest novel will not disappoint her legion of fans. This fast-paced, easy-to-read book will have readers turning pages with anticipation . . . A witty, fun read’ Ulster Tatler
The streets of London are paved with gold . . . allegedly.
They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites – Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a desire to DO something with their lives and, as far as they are concerned, the place to get noticed is London.
Out of the blue they discover they have a grandmother living in Chelsea – and when she has to go into hospital, they find themselves flat-sitting on the King’s Road. But, as they discover, it’s not as easy to become It Girls as they’d imagined, and West End boys aren’t at all like Hugh Grant . . .
‘A brilliant novel from the mistress of chick-lit’ Eve
‘An inspiring, uplifting, feel-good feast’ Company
‘A hugely entertaining, witty read’ Closer
‘A chick-lit writer with a difference . . . never scared to try something different, Colgan always pulls it off . . . West End Girls is very funny, very sweet and very entertaining’ Image
‘West End Girls is the perfect summer sunbather, easy to read, packed with gags and truths’ Irish News
‘Jenny Colgan brings us yet another feel-good indulgence with this fabulously quirky read . . . full of laugh-out-loud observations . . . utterly unputdownable’ Woman
Katie’s glad it isn’t a man’s world any more. That said she’d be quite pleased if there were more men in it – or at least single ones, anyway. With the media happily telling her she’s more likely to get murdered than married, Katie resigns herself to the fact there’s no sex in the city and heads for the hills – or the Scottish highlands, to be precise. Despite the fact she’s never been a girl for wellies – and Fairlish is in the middle of nowhere – the tiny town does have one major draw: men. Though not necessarily the right ones …
Ever wished you could turn back time? Flora’s wish is about to come true.
As her best friend Tashy cuts into a wedding cake, thirty-two-year-old Flora realises she is disillusioned with life. What she wouldn’t give to be sixteen again . . . she’d give anything for a life less complicated – a life a little more, well, fun. But when her wish comes true, things don’t turn out quite as she expects. In the world of ten-odd-years-ago, Flora’s in for the shock of her life . . .
Laughs, loves, office life. And just a little touch of magic . . .
Something magical has just entered Arthur Pendleton’s dull life. Or rather someone magical – the gorgeous, clever and totally enchanting Gwyneth Morgan. As head of a team of management consultants, Gwyneth is way out of Arthur’s league. But can he find a way to win her heart?
Eighties child Ellie really thought life was going to be like Pretty in Pink, St Elmo’s Fire and all those other movies – movies where everyone was astoundingly glamorous, popular, successful, had huge apartments and lived Happily Ever After. But now that she and her gang are thirty, she has to admit that things haven’t quite turned out that way.
Determined to find some answers, Ellie sets out to track down Andrew McCarthy – wherever he is now. Ellie’s epic journey will take her all across the USA . . . and on the trip of a lifetime.
Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn’t exactly seem to be coming up smelling of roses. Fleeing the house share from hell, she moves in with Josh, Kate, and the gorgeous Addison. But Addison keeps himself to himself, and Holly’s determined to get to know him better. Can she drag him away from his internet ‘girlfriend’ Claudia, or will they just continually get their wires crossed?
Mel and Fran can’t believe it when their old school friend Amanda, Satan’s very own PR girl, pulls off the ultimate publicity stunt in getting herself engaged to a Scottish laird. Who cares that Fraser McConnald has worn the same pair of Converse trainers for the last three years and that his castle is a pile of rubble with one Calor Gas heater – she’ll be titled!
Gentle, decent Fraser is clearly ignorant of Amanda’s wiles, so Mel and Fran, still smarting from the memory of all the mean things Amanda put them through in their days at Portmount Comprehensive, set out to sabotage this mismatch of the century.
