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Jenny Colgan

  • J. T. Colgan
  • Jane Beaton
14 de septiembre de 1972

Jenny Colgan crea historias con humor y un ojo agudo para el detalle, explorando a menudo temas como el amor, la amistad y la búsqueda del propio lugar en el mundo. Sus novelas son celebradas por su atmósfera reconfortante y sus personajes cercanos, que ofrecen a los lectores consuelo y diversión. Con un talento para representar las alegrías cotidianas y las pequeñas decepciones de la vida, crea experiencias de lectura memorables. Su estilo es accesible y enriquecedor, lo que la convierte en una narradora querida.

Jenny Colgan
A Town Like Alice
The Summer Seaside Kitchen
Polly and the Puffin: The New Friend
Polly and the Puffin
Polly and the Puffin: The Stormy Day
Polly and the Puffin: The Happy Christmas
  • Polly and the Puffin: The Happy Christmas

    • 96 páginas
    • 4 horas de lectura

    The fourth children's book featuring Polly and her puffin Neil, from bestselling adult novelist Jenny Colgan. With gorgeous two-colour illustrations throughout, Polly is perfect for reading aloud - especially at Christmas!

    Polly and the Puffin: The Happy Christmas
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  • Polly and the Puffin: The Stormy Day

    • 96 páginas
    • 4 horas de lectura

    The second children's book featuring Polly and her puffin Neil, from bestselling adult novelist Jenny Colgan. With gorgeous two-colour illustrations throughout, Polly is perfect for reading aloud.

    Polly and the Puffin: The Stormy Day
    4,2
  • Polly and the Puffin

    • 96 páginas
    • 4 horas de lectura

    Polly heard a CRASH downstairs. Was it a monster? NO! Was it a spider alien? NO!It was a little puffin with a broken wing...When Polly discovers an injured puffin, she and her mummy look after him in their cottage by the sea.Slowly, Neil's wing heals and Polly must prepare herself to say goodbye to her new friend. Will she ever see him again? Perfect for bedtime stories and early readers. From the author of The Little Beach Street Bakery.

    Polly and the Puffin
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  • Polly and the Puffin: The New Friend

    • 96 páginas
    • 4 horas de lectura

    The third children's book featuring Polly and her puffin Neil, from bestselling adult novelist Jenny Colgan. With gorgeous two-colour illustrations throughout, Polly is perfect for reading aloud.

    Polly and the Puffin: The New Friend
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  • The Summer Seaside Kitchen

    • 384 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

    "Flora is definitely, absolutely sure that escaping from the quiest Scottish village where she grew up to the noise and hustle of the big city was the right choice. Mure is a place shere everyone had known her all her life, and no one will let her forget the past. In the city, she can be anonymous, ambitious and indulge herself in her hopeless crush on her gorgeous boss, Joel." -- back coverSummary:.

    The Summer Seaside Kitchen
    4,1
  • A Town Like Alice

    • 350 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    Jean Paget is a brave and intelligent English girl who meets again in Alice Springs the Australian soldier with whom she had fallen in love in Malaya during World War II. The novel was first published in 1952.

    A Town Like Alice
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  • Discover the new Doctor Who classics. Earth is under attack by power-hungry aliens. This is no time for the Doctor to be out of action. When a British space probe is intercepted by a sinister alien vessel on the eve of Christmas, it marks the beginning of an audacious invasion of the Earth by the Sycorax - horrifying marauders from beyond the stars. Within hours, a third of humanity stands on the brink of death with not a single shot fired. Our planet needs a champion - but the Doctor is not fit for service. He's just regenerated, delirious in a new body and a dressing gown. Forced into his battered shoes is his friend, Rose Tyler, a girl from a London council estate. Will she save the world from this nightmare before Christmas - or see it destroyed?

    Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (Target Collection)
    4,0
  • The Little Shop of Happy Ever After

    • 358 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    Nina is a bookworm who dreams of running her own little bookshop. But real life is a bit trickier than the stories Nina loves, as she discovers when she moves to the beautiful wild Highlands of Scotland to turn her dreams into reality.

    The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
    4,0
  • 'A sheer delight from start to finish' Sophie Kinsella ***WINNER OF THE RNA ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013*** Can you hear the jangle of pocket money, the rustle of striped paper bags . . ? 'An evocative, sweet treat' Jojo Moyes 'Gorgeous, glorious, uplifting' Marian Keyes 'Irresistible' Jill Mansell 'Just lovely' Katie Fforde 'Naturally funny, warm-hearted' Lisa Jewell 'A gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book' Mike Gayle ___________________________________ Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to settle up, she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams - a novel - with recipes. ___________________________________ Why readers ADORE Jenny Colgan 'Jenny Colgan has a way of writing that makes me melt inside' 'Her books are so good I want to start over as soon as I have finished' 'There's something so engaging about her characters and plots' 'Her books are like a big, warm blanket' 'Her stories are just so fabulous' 'She brings her settings and characters so vividly to life' 'The woman is just magic'

    Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams
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