Classic Romance Books

On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008609214 • Author: Evie Woods  • Publisher:  One More Chapter • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  448 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm

Alice and Alife couldn't be more different. He's charming, talkative and outgoing. She's reserved, efficient and a workaholic. Forced together by circumstance, they can't see each other but they can talk - and as Alfie slowly brings Alice out of her shell, they start to get to know each other better. The connection between them feels real, but can you really fall for someone you've never seen? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781784166519 • Author: Emily Houghton • Publisher: Black Swan • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.5 x 2.4cm

The Lake District, 1944. Spring is in the air for the women at Mary Vale Mother and Baby Home. Beautiful Stella, the head-turning cook of a munitions factory, has been swept off her feet by a handsome GI. He proposes when she falls pregnant, but soon his letters stop arriving . . . Then there is Lillian, who is deeply unimpressed when she is conscripted as a Land Girl miles from her home, but then she meets a charming, married vet . . . Meanwhile, midwife Ada is getting used to being back at work after the birth of her own beautiful baby girl. But she faces the biggest challenge of her life when the home is engulfed in an outbreak of whooping cough. Though each woman is from a different walk of life, only together can they help Mary Vale come through this crisis . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781405965057 • Author: Daisy Styles • Publisher: Penguin • Format: Paperback • Pages: 416 • Dimensions: 19.05 x 12.7 x 2.54cm

In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent, not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed because George had secrets... secrets with the potential to shake the very foundations of the monarchy. Thrust into her new role as a royal, Charlotte must learn to navigate the intricate politics of the court, all the while guarding her heart, because she is falling in love with the King, even as he pushes her away. Above all, she must learn to rule and to understand that she has been given the power to remake society. She must fight - for herself, for her husband, and for all her new subjects who look to her for guidance and grace. For she will never be just Charlotte again. She must instead fulfil her destiny... as Queen. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780349436678 • Author: Julia Quinn & Shonda Rhimes • Publisher:  Little, Brown • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  352 • Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm

Fall in love with Still Me, the spellbinding conclusion of the story began in the worldwide bestseller Me Before You... Lou Clark knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. But what Lou doesn't know is she's about to meet someone who's going to turn her whole life upside down. Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it'll hurt. Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything...  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781405959360 • Author:  Jojo Moyes • Publisher:  Penguin Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  512 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm

In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s. From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free love and a counterculture taking root across the world. When Claire arrives in London from her small town, she never expects to cross paths with a woman as magnetic as Talitha Getty. Yearning for adventure and independence, she's swept off to Marrakesh, where the two become kindred spirits. But beneath Talitha's glamourous facade lurks a darkness few can understand. As their friendship blossoms and the two grow closer, the realities of Talitha's precarious existence set off a chain of dangerous events that could alter Claire's life forever. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781335449580 • Author: Jane Green • Publisher:  Hanover Square Press • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  304 • Dimensions: 13.36 x 2.01 x 20.35 cm

Marian Keyes, the No. 1 bestselling author of Rachel's Holiday, is back with her stunning new novel The Mystery of Mercy Close and the return of the legendary and beloved Walsh sisters. Helen Walsh doesn't believe in fear - it's just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs - and yet she's sinking. Her work as a Private Investigator has dried up, her flat has been repossessed and now some old demons have resurfaced. Not least in the form of her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker, who shows up with a missing persons case. Money is tight and Jay is awash with cash, so Helen is forced to take on the task of finding Wayne Diffney, the 'Wacky One' from boyband Laddz. Things ended messily with Jay. And she's never going back there. Besides she has a new boyfriend now, the very sexy detective Artie Devlin and it's all going well. But the reappearance of Jay is stirring up all kinds of stuff she thought she'd left behind. Playing by her own rules, Helen is drawn into a dark and glamorous world, where her worst enemy is her own head and where increasingly the only person she feels connected to is Wayne, a man she's never even met.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781405959261 • Author:  Marian Keyes • Publisher:  Penguin Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  608 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 3.81 x 19.81 cm

It's never too late to fall in love... Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. She’s answered an ad in The Lady: being a companion to an elderly gentleman who lives in a country estate could be perfect! Surely it's time to make a change and do something different for a while? The fact that she may also see Alec, the young man who she met some years previously and who she has always thought of as her ‘one who got away’, is of course purely incidental. Soon Caro is falling in love - not only with Alec but with the stunning country house she's now living in. But the estate is in financial difficulties, and Caro soon realises there's only one way to rescue it. So begins a magical romantic summer, one that will take Caro from Scotland to London and the south of France, in search of a classic lost perfume that might just restore all their fortunes. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781787469389 • Author: Katie Fforde • Publisher: Penguin Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5 cm

Peace has finally been declared in the Far East, but for those living at Beach View Boarding House, the news brings mixed emotions. Peggy Reilly is devastated that her husband Jim will not be coming home for Christmas. And Sarah and Jane, who have lived at Beach View throughout much of the conflict, dread what they will find when they go back to Singapore. Life in Cliffehaven is in a whirlwind of change as the men return from the war and Peggy’s evacuee chicks begin to spread their wings and start new lives in different corners of the world. Peggy and Jim have longed to be together after so many years apart, but war has left them profoundly changed. Can they rekindle the loving, close relationship they’d shared before? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781787469693 • Author:  Ellie Dean  • Publisher:  Arrow • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  512 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 3.3 x 19.69 cm

A year in the country. A year to fall in love. Fran has always wanted to be a farmer. And now it looks as if her childhood dream is about to come true. She has just moved to her aunt's beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds. If she can turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers.  But Fran knows nothing about farming. She might even be afraid of cows. She'll need help, not just from her best friend Issi, but also from her wealthy and very eligible neighbour - who might just have his own reasons for being so supportive. Is it the farm he is interested in? Or Fran herself? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781787469396 • Author: Katie Fforde • Publisher: Penguin Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 cm

Book Three of the interconnected-standalone Dreamland Billionaire series by Tiktok Sensation, Lauren Asher is finally here!  Callahan I'm the Kane brother everyone gossips about - trust fund brat, washed-up athlete, high-functioning alcoholic... No one knows the real me but her. Lana Castillo - my childhood best friend and the only woman I ever loved, until I broke her heart six years ago. But now, my grandfather's will changes everything. To receive my inheritance, I was tasked with spending a summer at the family lake house before selling it. Turns out Lana doesn't just live at the house, but she claims to own it too. Alana Falling in love with Callahan Kane was a mistake. He told me so before destroying my heart and our friendship six summers ago. When he promised never to come back, I foolishly believed him. But then Cal showed up again, intending to sell his grandfather's lake house. The biggest flaw in his plan? My name is on the deed. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780349433479 • Author: Lauren Asher • Publisher: Piatkus • Format: Paperback • Pages: 592 • Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 4.4 cm

Whitby, 1845: Amber Ainsley works as a laundry maid for the wealthy Greenwood family, but when she falls pregnant with her employer's illegitimate child, she is cast out, left homeless and destitute. She flees to Whitby, but Barnaby Greenwood follows, offering to find a family to raise their daughter, to save her being sent to the workhouse. Broken-hearted but wanting the best for her child, Amber hands her daughter over. Meanwhile, Barnaby's wife, Louisa, is overjoyed when she gives birth to twins - but the babies are weak, and she is terrified they won't survive. Poverty-stricken, Amber soon has no choice but to return to work for the Greenwoods. There, one twin is flourishing while the other sickens. And when Amber notices a familiar birth mark on the infant girl's leg, her world is turned upside-down... Will Amber ever be able to have the family life she hopes for?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781838773601 • Author:  Rosie Goodwin • Publisher:  Zaffre • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  464 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.79 x 19.81 cm

Ria and Marilyn have never met, but they're about to switch lives for the summer... Ria Lynch lives in a big, warm, Victorian house in Tara Road, Dublin, where her life revolves around family and friends. Marilyn Vine lives thousands of miles away in a quiet, modern house in New England. After a terrible loss, she has closed herself off from the world.  Two more unlikely friends would be hard to find, but when each needs a place to escape to, a house exchange seems the ideal solution. Along with the borrowed houses come, neighbours and friends, gossip and speculation, and Ria and Marilyn soon realise that swapping lives won't be the peaceful escape they'd been hoping for ... Though it might turn out to be exactly the change they both needed.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781398715196 • Author:  Maeve Binchy  • Publisher:  Orion • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  656 • Dimensions:  12.8 x 5 x 19.6 cm

Nuneaton, 1850 Growing up on a canal boat has meant life for young Saffie Doyle has been hard.  Her mother, Olivia, was cast out by her well-to-do family when she fell in love with Saffie's father, a lowly boatman named Reuben. But as the years have passed, Reuben has become a bitter and cruel drunk, forced to work for the local crook, Seth Black, to keep their family afloat. Saffie always dreamed of becoming a teacher, despite her father's insistence that she had no need to read and write.  Keen to nurture her ambitions, Olivia hoped to introduce Saffie to a childhood friend - the kindly and wealthy Marcus - who runs a free school for the local children, but when Olivia falls ill, she's unable to. One night, Saffie's 17-year-old brother and her father go out on a job with Seth Black and never return home. Saffie is forced to place her dreams on hold as she steps up to look after her family. With her younger siblings relying on her, will Saffie ever be able to live the life she hopes for?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781838773632 • Author:  Rosie Goodwin • Publisher:  Bonnier Publishing • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  432 • Dimensions:  12.8 x 19.8 x 2.9 cm

Three sisters torn apart by war. Can fighting for peace bring them together again? December 1941: Evacuated from the threat of German bombs, sisters Amelie and Mireille have grown up under the storm clouds of war. Now they have joined the fight against Hitler, with Amelie training as a nurse to save wounded soldiers, and Mireille enlisted to help the Air Force wage war in the skies over Europe. But as each sister fights for peace, they are still haunted by the memory of their missing sister who was snatched away from them at the beginning of the war. As Mireille is recruited for a special forces role behind enemy lines in France, she puts her life on the line for the Allies. But could she also finally have a chance of reuniting her sisters, once the war is over?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008538392 • Author:  Pam Weaver  • Publisher:  Avon • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  384 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.7 x 19.8 cm