As with so many things in Kitty Appleby's life, falling in love with Sandcastle Cottage, on a bitterly cold day was a monumental mistake. She hadn't even needed to rent a cottage, or move to the seaside village of Firefly Common. Kitty had a home and a boyfriend and a job and a life in lively noisy bustling Reading.  Or so she thought... But three weeks before Christmas, with the snow forecast to be thundering in from Siberia, Kitty suddenly had none of these things. Sandcastle Cottage was her only salvation. And as Kitty and her increasing band of waifs and strays moved dejectedly into the house in Firefly Common, she simply hoped someone had remembered to cancel Christmas...

It's the summer of 1969, an exciting time of music and fashion, peace and love. However, the Swinging Sixties appear to have by-passed the village of Ashcote. Seventeen-year-old Clemmie is thinking only of her A-levels, gaining a place at university and the long hot days stretching ahead. But when she meets the gorgeous Lewis Coleman-Beck, Clemmie's life changes in a split second and she's plunged, head-over-heels, into her very own Summer of Love.

One boy, two girls, and a journey through the heady, mad, rock'n'roll 1960s. June 1968: Renza is preparing to leave school – and England. Her family are moving to Germany and she can't wait – till the four gorgeous boys who make up pop band Narnia's Children move in next door. She falls head over heels for lead guitarist Scott, but after a romantic summer of love together, Renza has to go ... December 1968: Stella meets Scott at a local dance where Narnia's Children are playing. Scott's the most beautiful boy she's ever seen, and she falls for him hard ... As the colourful, exciting final year of the sixties dawns, both Renza and Stella realise there can be only one woman for Scott...

Clemmie has a problem - she's had almost as many jobs as she's had birthdays and her lovelife is on the critical list. But with the big 3-0 looming she's determined to transform herself from unemployed singleton to loved-up success. Trouble is Clemmie's dream job would be working for local entrepreneur Guy Devlin, owner of the famous pyrotechnics company, The Gunpowder Plot. He'd also be high on her list of candidates for significant other too. But Guy has a whole veritable cargo hold of baggage - avaricious ex-wife, a host of monster ex-step children. He's not even looking for an assistant. And if he was a quirky amateur firework maker with a penchant for cream cakes and big explosions wouldn't be high on his list.

Life simply couldn't be better for Erin Bentley. At twenty-seven, she is engaged to the simply divine Jay Keskar - and every minute of her day currently revolves around planning the wedding of her dreams. Until, that is, Jay's parents announce that they want to 'discuss' things - and this is when Erin's wedding heaven turns into her wedding hell . . . Tavish and Deena are Indian and have very firm beliefs about the form of wedding their only son should have. Of course, they say, Erin will be wearing a sari. And of course all the Indian pre-wedding ritual ceremonies - including tilak, mehendi, sangeet - will be observed. As Bollywood comes to Berkshire, can East eventually meet West in perfect harmony? And if not, will Erin and Jay's dream wedding even take place?ReviewThe book offers an immediately gripping story that will make you laugh and cry along with the characters ... will make women everywhere weak at the knees... An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding was a delight to read. It is inspirational, romantic, compelling and, most important of all, gives us a wonderful fairytale ending Female First About the AuthorThe only child of a schoolteacher and a circus clown, Christina Jones has been writing all her life. As well as writing novels, Christina contributes short stories and articles to national magazines and newspapers. Christina lives with her husband Rob and a houseful of rescued cats.

On the death of her grandfather, Jasmine Clark inherits his bookie’s pitch at a local greyhound stadiumand his council-condemned beach-hut. The stadium may look rundown, but there are plans afoot and it’s a prime site close to the sea-front. April Pagett, single mother, has been nursing her bar job, and any other work she can get, including debt collection, to survive until one day, in lieu of payment, she is given Cair Paravel, allegedly a champion greyhound. The owner scarpers and April is left to conceal the dog from her landlord. So is he a winner?

'Fun, charming and romantic, this feel-good read is a real treat' Closer - praise for Christina Jones Nell Bradley's family all work flat-out to keep Bradleys' Mammoth Fun Fair in business. They're expecting her to take the traditional showman's route and make a suitable match with Ross Percival, who, with his state-of-the-art hydraulic touring rides, will bring traditional Bradleys into the twenty-first century. But Nell doesn't love Ross, and still harbours dreams of an old-fashioned steam funfair, so when she discovers a dilapidated antique roundabout with carved horses for sale, she buys it and arranges to have it renovated without her family's knowledge. But what she hadn't realised is that the horses come with their own very sexy restorer...

Bob and Amy Phillips and their four grown-up children run Lavender Cabs in the small Berkshire market town of Appleford. Everyone is involved. The business has grown – through three generations – into a thriving taxi and garage business. But when Bob is taken ill, he and Amy decide to retire to Devon, but to do this they would have to sell the business which would throw the entire family's lives into turmoil...

The wonderful new novel from the author of Nothing to Lose.A large village somewhere in Britain, with church, pub, shop, school and bus shelter for the young to hang about in, its people coming to terms with life and work in the new century, and three maverick characters give Christina Jones the opportunity to create a vivid, frequently hilarious, sometime poignant picture of unusual partnerships and changing small town life.Posy Nightingale, Lola Wentworth and Flynn Malone are strangers to each other and all seem to be in losing situations, but their chance coming together in a struggling B&B gives each of them an unlikely opportunity ā will they have the guts to take it?Christina Jones, whose most recent novel is Nothing to Lose, has created a wonderful cast of characters set in a lively unusual country background, which one is very sorry to leave at the end.

an impulsive risk when she spends her grandmother's small legacy on a warehouse on the edge of a small airfield.But her attempt at enterprise is marred by her ex-boss's determination to keep her under control, her friends' and family's attempts to find her a suitable mate, and the mystery about her past, complicated by cover-ups. Among the first items in her warehouse is an old plane waiting to be restored. Billie hates flying, so it is even more surprising that she finds herself offering to perform acrobatic stunts and wing-walking...

After nearly 25 years of marriage, Rosie's life seems to be falling apart. Her husband, Leon, tells her he's leaving her, her three children are very unhappy and unsettled, and even her beloved home, Honeysuckle House, is at risk. Without Leon and the painful disruption to everyone's lives, the family is also finding it hard to cope with the running of the family restaurant, Cookery Nook. However, although Rosie could never have imagined it, Leon's leaving isn't the end, but a new beginning for everyone...

Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, Casserole burn and intrigues double 'Mitzi Blessing is on the scrapheap: forced into a very early retirement, a lifetime of organising the church flower rota and making cricket teas seems to loom gloomily ahead of her. With her two daughters seemingly happily settled, Mitzi is determined not to dwindle quietly into serene old age and sets about organising and revitalising Hazy Hassocks, the small rural community she has lived in all her life. However, with the discovery of her grandmother's cookery book in the attic,life for Mitzi and her friends and family starts to get very interesting. Full of old-fashioned recipes with enchanting names like Wishes Come True Pie, Mischief Night Cake, and Powers of Persuasion Pudding - Granny's dishes provide a nourishing meal, but they also seem to have some very surprising side effects indeed.ReviewH.E. Bates for the 21st Century (Katie Fforde) sexy...unputdownable...a heart-thumping read (Company) feisty tale of friendship and laughter, loyalty and love...engaging (The Times) must read...fun-packed tale (The Sun) About the AuthorThe only child of a schoolteacher and a circus clown, Christina Jones has been writing all her life. As well as writing novels, Christina contributes short stories and articles to national magazines and newspapers. Christina lives with her husband Rob and a houseful of rescued cats.

Cooking seemed like the perfect distraction - until a delicious chef was thrown in the mix . . .And when Ella’s favourite top-rated TV cookery programme - Dewberry’s Dinners - comes looking for a venue to film their latest show, she pulls out all the culinary stops in an attempt to keep her mind on the task in hand (and not on the sexy Ash), but it’s hard to keep your head when all around you people are losing theirs . . .

Christmas comes but once a year ... so get into the mood with this fantastic feast of festive tales from Accent Press! With some brilliant short stories from best-selling authors, there's something for everyone: Yuletide laughs from Christina Jones and Tricia Maw, an Edwardian Advent from Caroline Dunford, some Christmas criminality from Bill Kitson and Marsali Taylor, and heart-warming episodes from Jane Wenham-Jones, Jane Risdon, and Jane Jackson, 'tis the season for jolly good reading!