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Cosy Reads for January

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A selection of books hand-curated by our team
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Fiction

One Minute Away

Watson, Mark
One city. A million encounters. And one that changes everything...Warm, witty and wonderfully observed, ONE MINUTE AWAY is the brand new novel from the award-winning writer and comedian, Mark Watson.
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Healing hearts on Thistledown Lane

Hepburn, Holly
Maura has everything she ever wanted from life - a cottage in Edinburgh's Dean Village, a thriving career as a potter & a happy relationship with her childhood sweetheart, Jamie.
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Fiction

Cake off at the cat café

Rowlands, Rachel
Clem is the baker in charge of creating delicious cat-themed treats for the loyal customers of the Catpurrcino cat cafe. From iced kitten doughnuts to macarons with ears and whiskers, Clem's creations always bring a smile to the face of anyone lucky
Fiction

The bookseller's gift

Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
Catherine and her mum Ann have decided to live their dream, by opening a bookshop on Ireland's west coast. But at Christmas, when disaster strikes, it looks like they'll have to close for the year's most important shopping week.
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Moving on

Meaney, Roisin
As a new decade begins, hopeless romantic and big dreamer Ellen is finally moving on from her hometown.
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The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop [electronic resource]

French, Annabel
One fresh start. One unexpected encounter. Can love bridge the gap?When Rosie leaves behind her ordinary life in England to open a flower shop on Amsterdam’s water, she expects nothing less than a fairytale.
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From London With Love [electronic resource]

Fforde, Katie
A beautiful Chelsea town house. A chance to fulfil her dreams. A life adventure awaits…It’s 1968 and it’s cold when Felicity arrives in London to stay with her mother, improve her English, do a secretarial course - and meet a suitable man.
Fiction

Bea's book wagon

Haworth, Julie
Set in the fictional Sussex village of Blossom Heath, and featuring characters you will know and love from Julie Haworth's RNA Katie Fforde. 'Bea's Book Wagon' is a cosy, uplifting and comforting romance that tells the story of two love-interest heroes
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The Italian holiday

Mangan, Catherine
Floundering junior travel writer Katie has just been given the opportunity of her career. Her boss can't make her trip to the idyllic but little-known Italian island of Ponza
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Fiction

The Little Cottage by the Cornish Sea [electronic resource]

Barone, Nancy
Life doesn't always go to plan . . .After a messy breakup and a nightmare boss, Kate swaps the chaos of London for the calm of Starry Cove-the charming seaside village she loved as a child.
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For One Moment With You [electronic resource]

Howells, Debbie
The romantic and heart-mending new women's fiction read from Sunday Times Bestseller Debbie Howells, for fans of Jojo Moyes, Shari Low and David Nicholls!What if you met the one a week before your wedding to another man?
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You Are Here : Library

Nicholls, David
Marnie is stuck.Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by.Michael is coming undone.

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