Christmas Fiction Books

Join Bluey and her friends and family in the countdown to Christmas with this advent book collection of 24 stories and activities! Find 23 surprise mini books behind each door, plus a special Christmas story for Christmas Eve! Stories include: Daddy Robot, Charades, Yoga Ball, Shadowlands and an awesome Christmas Eve story. Also find four How to Draw mini books and learn to draw some of your favourite Bluey characters! Put the books back inside the windows, so you can reuse your Advent Book Collection every year!  Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241714966 • Author: Bluey • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 576 • Dimensions: 42.1 x 31cm

Could this Christmas be the start of a whole new chapter? Every year, Erica, Claudia, and Anna reunite for their book club holiday. They’re bonded by years of friendship and a deep love of books, but there is still so much they keep from each other … At the cosy Maple Sugar Inn, Hattie specialises in making her guests’ dreams come true, but this Christmas all she wants is to survive the festive season. Between running the inn and being a single mother, Hattie is close to breaking point. Over the course of an eventful week, Hattie sees that the friends are each carrying around unspoken truths, but nothing prepares her for how deeply her story will become entwined in theirs. Will this Christmas be the end of the book club’s story or the start of a whole new chapter? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781848459205 • Author: Sarah Morgan • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5cm

Join Clara on a magical Christmas adventure with this imaginative retelling of the classic tale. When her enchanted doll comes to life at midnight, Clara begins a fantastical journey to the Land of Sweets, where she meets an enchanting cast of characters, including the beautiful sugar plum fairy… Product Information: • ISBN: 9781802498844 • Author: Curious Universe • Publisher: Curious Universe • Format: Paperback • Pages: 24 • Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 3cm

Escape to Castle Street, for a feel-good festive read from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland. It’s the most wonderful time of the year on Castle Street, and there’s a paw-some new business opening…. It had always been Tabby’s dream to work with cats and an inheritance from her beloved nanna has finally made that a reality. Idyllic Castle Street in Whitsborough Bay couldn’t be a better place for pastry chef Tabby to open a cat café with her boyfriend, Leon. But when Leon leaves her in the lurch, the pressure mounts for Tabby. With Christmas fast approaching, she has to open the café on her own – a daunting prospect, especially when she’s been hiding her health issues from the ones she loves. Faced with local resistance to the café – and somebody seemingly determined that she won’t succeed – Tabby will need her friends, family and cats more than ever to recover her broken Christmas spirit and pull together for a Christmas miracle. Will the cat café bring the festive joy to Castle Street as Tabby had hoped or will it be a cat-astrophe? And can the magic of Christmas on Castle Street mend Tabby’s broken heart as well as her business? Join million-copy bestseller Jessica Redland for the purr-fect festive treat! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836179139 • Author: Jessica Redland • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Pages: 384 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.21cm

With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive... Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he's nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix. When Alexandra Robinson finds herself stranded in Clove Lore, she finds a safe place to hide from heartbreak. After all, all that's waiting for her at home is a cheater boyfriend and the memories of her parents. As Alex finds herself embraced by the quirky village community, she finds her tough exterior thawing - and as she grows closer to Magnús, she finds an equally soft heart under his gruff shell. It seems that Clove Lore is working it's magic once again - until a great flood on Christmas Eve brings devastation in its wake. It's up to Magnús and Alex to batten down the hatches and help bring the village back together again, while also introducing the locals to the Icelandic tradition of the jólabókaflóð - Yule book flood - where families and friends gather on Christmas Eve to exchange books and read together. But can Magnús and Alex truly rescue the ruins of the village, and salvage their Christmas spirit? Or is there another complication lurking even closer than they thought? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804360033 • Author: Kiley Dunbar • Publisher: Canelo • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8cm

Everyone deserves a Christmas treat... The annual Wheaton gingerbread exhibit (a model village made of gingerbread) and grotto has been an important part of the sleepy Cotswold hamlet’s Christmas celebrations for decades. For years the gingerbread exhibition drew visitors from across the region and each year the model town grew more elaborate and ambitious but recently, interest has been dwindling. The gingerbread grotto needs to be rehomed or close forever. Sixty-four-year-old Margi, the event’s founder, has had enough of village life (and its total lack of eligible men) and is planning to sell up and head to Birmingham to live closer to her niece. She has lost her spark and her Christmas spirit and decides this will be her last gingerbread village, but despairs when she finds her only support is her old friend, Izzy, her niece Lucy from Birmingham, and Fern, the shy young farmer’s daughter. Oh, and Patrick, the gorgeous, reliable school caretaker. As if this wasn’t enough, Lucy is determined to get her out dating again and persuades her to try some online dating apps but Margi’s had her heart broken too many times and wonders if she has just missed her chance. Can they save the Gingerbread Grotto and can Margi get her old spark and her Christmas spirit back? A cosy, totally feelgood seasonal read that will have you smiling. The perfect read to snuggle up and have you feeling festive! Fans of Jenny Colgan and Trisha Ashley will love this book. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804364598 • Author: Kiley Dunbar • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Pages: 320 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 1.78cm

Dive into this gorgeous Christmas novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Sue Moorcroft – the perfect companion for a cold winter’s night! A secret romance was just the start of the story… Tucked into a crook of the Norfolk coast lies Nelson’s Bar – an idyllic village where time seems to stand still. Maddy Cracey has called this beautiful spot home all her life, as had her husband Adey – until an epic row sent him storming out into a blizzard, with no sign of him since that fateful night. Six years on, and Maddy’s life in the village has settled into a gentle pattern with her young daughter and Great Aunt Ruthie. However, when handsome stranger Raff turns up with a handful of long-forgotten love letters, their quiet life is upended as family secrets from the past are unearthed. As Raff and Maddy get to know each other, they grow closer and a love story of their own seems inevitable. But when Maddy receives a mysterious message, she can’t help but wonder whether her own past is as distant as she'd thought it was… The festive new novel about love, family and the power of words from Sunday Times bestseller Sue Moorcroft, perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Phillipa Ashley. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008636760 • Author: Sue Moorcroft • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Pages: 384 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.85 x 2.4cm

The glittering new uplifting Christmas read from bestselling author Cressida McLaughlin. Ollie Spencer has started a new life in the idyllic Cornish seaside town of Port Karadow. Throwing herself into her job at the town’s bookshop, A New Chapter, is one way to make friends. The shop is glitzing up for first Christmas and Ollie hopes her inspired ideas will give the shop the edge it needs to dazzle the town. But far from being the Sugar Plum fairy the place needs, Ollie is fast becoming its Christmas pudding. With the bookshop’s success at stake, Ollie turns to twinkly-eyed café owner Max for help. Can he help Ollie to turn the page, and put the sparkle back into her Cornish dream? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008503727 • Author: Cressida McLaughlin • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 2.6cm

When Bee Hobbes takes the lead in a squeaky-clean romantic Christmas movie, there are only three rules: 1. Don’t get involved with anyone on set. 2. Don’t tell anyone what you do for a living. 3. Definitely don’t get involved with anyone on set. 3b. Seriously. Now, she’s filming in Christmas Notch, a small town with Christmas trees and festive tunes all year round. But Bee’s got a secret identity to hide, and it’s not family-friendly. And her co-star, Nolan Shaw, an ex-boyband member infamous for his own x-rated antics, not only knows it, but is secretly her biggest fan. When things start to heat up on set, Bee and Nolan must keep this steamy affair under wraps, or risk ruining everything. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008580469 • Author: Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Pages: 432 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.81 x 12.9 x 2.24cm

Take a trip to the most magical city this Christmas with bestselling author Jo Bartlett. Will their Christmas wish come true? Libby Cooper hasn’t celebrated Christmas since the night her parents died in a terrible accident. She wants to forget that the season of goodwill even exists; but her grandmother has other ideas. It’s time for Libby to start living her life just as her parents would have wanted her to do. First stop New York! What better way to immerse herself in the celebrations, than working in her great aunt’s Christmas shop, just a few blocks from Central Park? Making new friends in the Big Apple is the easy bit, but leaving the past behind proves much harder than Libby imagined. Long walks in gorgeous Central Park help, and here she meets Harry Stanwick, a Central Park Ranger. Harry seems to know instinctively when Libby wants to talk or when she just needs to sit quietly on their special bench with him by her side. Slowly, Libby begins to feel some of the pain of her past slipping away. And as New York begins to work its magic and her friendship with Harry grows, so too do Libby’s feelings for him. But can she ever be truly happy without the people who matter the most to her? Or can Harry convince Libby that she deserves her own Christmas miracle -and her chance of happiness – sitting with him on their bench in Central Park? From Jo Bartlett, the bestselling author of The Cornish Midwives Series, perfect for fans of Jessica Redland, Holly Martin and Christie Barlow. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836179153 • Author: Jo Bartlett • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Pages: 200 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.17cm

The Quality Street girls are gearing up for Christmas, but with the factory now making gas masks, as well as the nation’s favourite chocolate sweets, it’s anything but normal. They’re having to make other adjustments too. Reenie is in the doldrums after being demoted at work, while Mary has got her hands full getting used to married life and a ready-made family. New girl, Ada, isn’t sure she fits into factory life at all. Then, just as the Christmas party season gets into full swing, Toffee town gets a shock, and soon it isn’t just Christmas cheer that’s in short supply. Can the Quality Street girls save Christmas once again? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008531140 • Author: Penny Thorpe • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.2 x 19.8cm

It’s Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned baby, swaddled in a blanket, is found on a doorstep in Angel Lane... Named after the street on which she was found, Angel Winter was blessed to be taken from the harsh streets into a loving home. But fate deals a cruel blow and she’s torn from the only family she has ever known, and thrown onto the cobbles of Covent Garden to fend for herself. With winter closing in, Angel scratches a living selling mistletoe to the City gentlemen who pass through the market, hoping they will take pity on her as she shivers in the snow. The only way she can survive is to make her own luck. She will never sell the one treasure that could feed her for a month, the gold and ruby ring that was hidden in her swaddling – it could hold the key to the secrets of her past... Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008199555 • Author: Dilly Court • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 544 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.4 x 19.8cm

Can the festive cheer warm her heart again? October 1941. Despite the hardships of life during wartime, Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. Engaged to her airman sweetheart Charlie, living in the beautiful Dales village of Silverdale and gainfully employed at The Tyke magazine, her life seems to be going exactly the way she always hoped it would. As the festive season approaches, Bobby is recruited to help produce a Christmas pantomime for the evacuee children billeted in the village. The project introduces her to some new friends, including a handsome Canadian, Flying Officer Ernie King, and her friend Topsy’s upper-crust cousin Archie Sumner. However, fresh troubles arise when Charlie discovers his RAF training is to be cut short and he must prepare to join the fight imminently. What’s more, his upcoming leave has been cancelled, leaving him to spend a lonely Christmas in his barracks. Can a miracle bring Charlie and Bobby together for Christmas? An absolutely captivating, heart warming and uplifting festive saga that fans of All Creatures Great and Small, Gervase Phinn and Maggie Mason will adore. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804361962 • Author: Betty Firth • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 2.26cm

Izzy McBride had never in a million years expected to inherit an actual castle from her great uncle Bill. But here she was, in the run up to Christmas, Monarch of her own Glen – a very rundown glen in need of a lot of TLC if her dream of turning it into a boutique bed and breakfast was to come true. But when Izzy’s eccentric mother rents a room to enigmatic thriller author Ross Adair and the Scottish snow starts to settle like the frosting on a Christmas cake, it’s a race to get the castle ready before they’re all snowed in for the holidays. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008431266 • Author: Julie Caplin • Publisher: One More Chapter • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 5 x 0.9 x 7.8 Inches

A wonderful story of love, friendship and opening your mind and your heart to new possibilities that will enchant fans of Holly Martin and Heidi Swain. The Copper Plough is at the heart of village life for the residents of Heritage Cove, and never more so than at Christmas, when the tree glows in the alcove and the smell of mulled wine carries out onto the street. So when new owners for the beloved pub arrive and decide to shake things up, not everyone welcomes the changes with open arms. Local bakery owner Celeste is ready to keep an open mind. But she’s shocked to discover that one of the new landlords is Quinn, a former Navy sailor with whom she had a short but powerful romance years earlier. Fate may have brought Quinn and Celeste back together, but life seems determined to keep them apart. Can the villagers learn to embrace the newcomers this Christmas? And will Quinn and Celeste find a way back to each other before snow falls over Heritage Cove? Join new friends and old, as Christmas comes to Heritage Cove. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781836179146 • Author: Helen Rolfe • Publisher: Boldwood Books Limited • Pages: 288 • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.65cm

Snuggle up ready for winter with this gorgeous cosy romance! Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what. Fashion designer Libby Carter has always loved weddings, so when her brother finds himself in a bind and asks her to step in and plan the perfect winter wonderland wedding for guests at his hotel, Starcross Manor, she happily takes on the challenge. But this is no ordinary Christmas wedding and when everything starts to go awry Libby asks gorgeous videographer Guy Hart for help. This isn’t single dad Guy’s usual gig – and he is not a fan of weddings – but saying no to vivacious Libby isn’t an option … especially when saying yes leads to one very unforgettable kiss under the mistletoe! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008413217 • Author: Christie Barlow • Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.6cm

One month to pretend... or one month to fall in love? How do I turn down an overly keen colleague I have zero interest in dating? Should I: 1.    Stammer and bluster my way through every excuse in the book 2.    Accept and then immediately turn in my resignation letter, change my number and leave the country 3.    Allow my hot, new, doctor neighbour to step in and pretend to be my boyfriend The answer: there are no right answers. But option 3 is happening and I’m fake dating Lucas just to survive my work Christmas party without any further unwanted advances. A fun and romantic festive romp for fans of Georgia Toffolo and Laura Jane Williams. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781804365007 • Author: Cass Grafton • Publisher: Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.84 x 12.85 x 1.75cm

The second inspiring novel in the heartwarming and hopeful Bletchley Park Girls series from the queen of saga, Molly Green… When Rosie Frost was jilted on her wedding day, she didn’t think life could get any worse. But six years later in the throes of the Second World War, she is unceremoniously dismissed from her dream job after they discover her illegitimate child. Thankfully, top secret war office Bletchley Park recognises Rosie’s talent and recruits her to decipher their Italian naval signals. Happy to be doing her bit for the war effort, Rosie settles into her new life. But when she spots a familiar face at the Park, Rosie’s world threatens to come crashing down once more. Can she put her heartbreak behind her? And will wedding bells ring out across Bletchley Park before the year is out? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008479909 • Author: Molly Green • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.8cm

A rural book shop. A chance to start over. But can she make her dream a reality? Kazz used to love the excitement of her London life, but lately her passion for expensive city living has begun to wane. So when she's given the opportunity to open a bookshop in picturesque Tanglewood, she jumps at the chance. But village life is much quieter than she anticipated – is she actually suited for rural living? Resigned to a boring and uneventful Christmas, when she meets gorgeous Saul she is more than ready to have some fun and enjoy the festivities. If only Saul didn't have a reputation for being a player... Will Kazz become the heroine in her own Christmas romance, or will he love her and leave her under the mistletoe? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781835980002 • Author: Lilac Mills • Publisher: Canelo • Format: Paperback • Pages: 336 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 2 x 19.8cm

When Sky Terran returns to the village of Middledip after losing the job she loves, she anticipates a quiet Christmas getting used to her new life. However, the annual street decoration competition is coming up and this year, the residents of Winter Street are determined to win. As she is pulled into the preparations, Sky quickly grows to love the quirky, tight-knit community she is now part of. Including the extremely handsome Daz, who soon becomes more than just a friendly neighbour. But when Daz’s ex turns up determined to win him back and it seems he might not be the man Sky thought he was, she remembers how much allowing people into her life – and heart – can hurt. As the snow falls, will she and Daz find a way through – and help win a Christmas victory for Winter Street? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008525675 • Author: Sue Moorcroft • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 12.8 x 2.2 x 19.8cm