検索キーワード： 著者 "Jenny Colgan" すべてのカテゴリー

Connie, mathématicienne, arrive à Cambridge, pensant qu'on lui a confié un poste de professeur. Elle se rend compte que des confrères sont là, à qui on a fait la même promesse. Les services secrets les ont en fait réunis pour décrypter un code mystérieux et les voilà "assignés à résidence". Parmi eux se trouve un inconnu au comportement étrange... et c'est peu dire pour leur petit milieu. Luke semble en savoir beaucoup plus qu'eux sur ce code et même sur la vie, l'univers et le reste.

Exclusive interview. Best-selling author Jenny Colgan joins Maddie Hickish in the Audible Studios to talk about her work.

Hvad sker der, når storbypigen flytter på landet, og landsbymennesket til storbyen? I denne charmerende roman af den britiske bestsellerforfatter Jenny Colgan får du det bedste fra det pulserende London og det idylliske skotske højland. Lissa arbejder som sygeplejerske i et af Londons mest belastede kvarterer. Hele sit liv har hun været dygtig, pligtopfyldende og glad for sit job, men alt ændrer sig efter en chokerende ulykke.

Tag med Flora MacKenzie tilbage til den lille skotske ø Mure, der ved juletid er kold, forblæst og fuldstændig vidunderlig. Julen står for døren, og nu skal der hygges med familie og venner foran brændeovnen med en god kop te og en whisky... medmindre man, som Flora, er blevet gravid med sin tidligere chef, Joel, og nu er bange for at fortælle ham det. Julen burde jo være glædens højtid, men vil Joel nu også blive glad for den gode nyhed? Det er også første gang, øens læge Saif skal holde jul på den vindblæste ø langt mod nord.

Tag med Flora MacKenzie tilbage til den lille skotske ø Mure, hvor kærligheden blomstrer, men mørke skyer også trækker ind over land... Floras cafe ved den endeløse strand bugner af kunder, og hun kunne ikke være gladere. I hvert fald så længe hun ikke tænker alt for meget over Joel, hendes overordentlig charmerende, men følelsesmæssigt - og fysisk - fraværende kæreste. Hun havde ikke i sin vildeste fantasi forestillet sig, at han ville få øjnene op for hende, men nu er de lige så stille ved at skabe et liv sammen. Tror hun nok.

Die Londoner Krankenschwester Lissa kümmert sich um alle, nur nicht um sich selbst. Doch nach einem traumatischen Erlebnis braucht sie eine Auszeit: irgendwo, wo es ruhig ist, alle nett zueinander sind und der Himmel unendlich scheint. Das schottische Heimatdorf des Ex-Soldaten Cormac ist Idylle pur, aber ihm fehlen neue Impulse. So tauschen die beiden für drei Monate ihre Wohnungen. Per Mail helfen sie einander, sich in der jeweils neuen Heimat zurechtzufinden.

Der Sommer kann kommen: Jenny Colgans neuer Wohlfühlroman um den kleinen Bücherbus in Schottland. Das Leben ist kein Streichelzoo für die alleinerziehende Mutter Zoe. Als Betreuerin in einer Londoner Luxus-Kita machen ihr die verwöhnten Sprösslinge das Leben zur Hölle. Ihre Miete ist schon wieder gestiegen und ihr vierjähriger Sohn weigert sich zu sprechen. Das Angebot, eine fahrende Buchhandlung im idyllischen Schottland zu übernehmen und die drei Kinder eines Schlossherrn zu betreuen, scheint da ein wahrer Traum.

Carmen has always worked in her local department store. So, when the gorgeous old building closes its doors for good, she is more than a little lost. When her sister, Sofia, mentions an opportunity in Edinburgh - a cute little bookshop, the spare room in her house - Carmen is reluctant, she was never very good at accepting help. But, short on options, she soon finds herself pulling into the snowy city just a month before Christmas.

Marisa Rosso is struggling. Since the death of her beloved grandfather back home in Italy, she can't seem to find a way out of her grief. She's a registrar and knows losing grandparents is a natural part of life, so why does she feel so lost? When she hears a hospital is recruiting in Mount Polbearne, a tiny and remote tidal island off the Cornish coast, Marisa thinks she has found the perfect retreat. Perhaps some solitude is just what she needs to combat her homesickness and rediscover her equilibrium. But Mount Polbearne is a far cry from the sleepy little place she was imagining.

On the tiny Scottish island of Mure, Christmas preparations are even more hectic than usual.... Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef, a spoilt Norwegian kitchen boy who can't peel a potato without mutilating his own hand and a painfully shy kitchen assistant who blushes when anyone speaks to her. Can they pull it together in time for the big opening? And can Flora help her family find happiness this Christmas?

Posy Fairweather is over the moon when her boyfriend Matt proposes in what is probably the most romantic way possible—on top of a mountain, in a thunderstorm, like something from a Nicholas Sparks novel. But a few days later he dumps her. Crushed and humiliated, Posy wonders why all her romances have always been such train wrecks. Determined to gain some insight, Posy resolves to get online, track down her exes, and ask them. Which doors from Posy’s past should stay closed? Which might open? Can she learn from past mistakes?

They may be twins, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. Penny is the life of the party, while quiet and thoughtful Lizzy is often left out of the crowd. The one trait they do share is a longing to do something spectacular with their lives, and as far as these two are concerned, there’s no better place to make their dreams come true than London. Presented with a once-in-a-lifetime house-sit at their grandmother’s home in a desirable London neighborhood, it finally seems Lizzie and Penny are a step closer to the exciting cosmopolitan life they’ve always wanted.

Sophie Chesterton is London's "It Girl". She knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, and wears all the right clothes...and her rich parents pay for everything. But deep down she suspects that her best "friends" - and her posh lifestyle - are nothing but shallow fakes. Then one evening Sophie's life takes a shocking, drastic turn, and her father decides it's high time for the party girl to make her own way in the world.

Faced with the harsh reality that there are 25,000 more women than men in London, Katie’s dating prospects are at an all-time low. While she’s glad it’s not a man’s world anymore, it wouldn’t hurt if there were more eligible bachelors. More likely to get murdered than married, according to gleeful media reports, Katie resigns herself to the fact that there’s no sex in the city for her and decides to head for the hills - or the Scottish Highlands to be exact.

In her comfy cottage nestled in the Derbyshire hills, Rosie Hopkins has good reason to feel a warm blush in her cheeks. With Christmas weeks away, the holiday is being ushered in with England’s first glorious snowfall of the season. Her boyfriend Stephen is starting his new job as a teacher in the village school. Her quaint Sweetshop and Confectionery has been restored to its former glory, and she has a loveable mop of a new puppy named Mr. Dog. Most joyous of all, Rosie and Stephen’s relatives will finally be gathering together in Lipton for what is sure to be a merry feast.

Marisa Rosso can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth - the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, while carrying on her job as a registrar, dealing with births, weddings, and deaths, even as she feels life is passing her by.

On the tiny, beautiful, and remote island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, a new hotel opening is a big event. New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas. The new hotel’s impressive kitchens throw together two unlikely new friends: Isla Gregor is the hardworking young girl who has been a waitress in the island's cafe, dreaming of a bigger, better life. Konstantin Pederson is working his way up in the hotel's kitchens too…but he is also, secretly, the only son of the Duke of Utsire.

Lissie is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissie to spend a few months doing a much less demanding job in the little town of Kirrinfeif in Scottish Highlands, hoping that the change of scenery will help her heal. Lissie will be swapping places with Cormack, an Army veteran who’s Kirrinfeif’s easygoing nurse/paramedic/all-purpose medical man.

I denne skønne julebog tager Rosie Hopkins dig med tilbage til hyggelige Lipton, hvor hun har travlt i sin slikbutik og forbereder sig på at skulle holde en ganske særlig jul. Rosie Hopkins glæder sig til at fejre jul. Hendes slikbutik er propfuld af rød- og hvidstribede sukkerstokke, bunker af turkish delight, fyldte chokolader og sukkerklistrede børn. Hun skal bruge juledagene med sin kæreste, Stephen, og hendes familie fra Australien har også meldt sin ankomst.

Nina Redmond elsker bøger. At finde den rigtige bog til den rigtige læser er hendes store passion - og hendes job. Så da det bibliotek, hun arbejder på, skal lukkes og omdannes til luksuslejligheder, aner hun ikke, hvad hun skal stille op. Presset af omstændighederne øjner Nina en mulighed for at udleve sin drøm om at åbne en boghandel. Hun forvandler en slidt, gammel kassevogn til en butik på hjul, og med sine trofaste romanheltinder i ryggen flytter hun til Skotland og begiver sig ud i højlandet for at finde købere til sine bøger.