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Cressida McLaughlin

    Tato autorka je zapálenou milovnicí knih, jejíž raná léta v Londýně formovalo bohaté prostředí plné literatury. Její psaní je hluboce zakořeněno v klasických literárních tradicích, což dokládá studium anglické literatury. Ve své tvorbě se s nadšením věnuje tématům, která rezonují s její vášní pro literární hrdiny a tajemné záhady. Čtenáři si užijí její poutavý styl, který odráží její celoživotní lásku k vyprávění příběhů.

    The Cornish Cream Tea Christmas
    The Secret Bookshop: The Secret Christmas Bookshop
    The Cornish Cream Tea Wedding
    The Cornish Cream Tea Summer
    A Cornish Love Story
    The Cornish Cream Tea Holiday
    • A Cornish Love Story

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Escape to Cornwall in a brand-new standalone novel from the author of The Happy Hour and From Cornwall with Love... 'Bursting with warmth' Kirsty Greenwood 'Cressida's characters are wonderful' Sarah Morgan ___________________________________ The most romantic house in Cornwall has got a new owner... From her window in a little bungalow on the Cornish coast, local reporter Georgie Monroe has watched as one of the most beautiful houses in Cornwall has been transformed into a high-tech glass palace. Once home to a celebrated romance writer, it's now been sold to a mystery buyer, and Georgie is wondering who that might be. When she is invited to report on an open house event at the new house, she's flustered to find that it's been bought by her ex, architect Ethan Sparks. But when the event goes wrong, Georgie and Ethan find themselves trapped inside. Unable to escape each other for a night, they discover that the house is still keeping a few secrets of its own, and the end to their own story hasn't been written yet...

      A Cornish Love Story2025
      4,2
    • The Secret Bookshop: The Secret Christmas Bookshop

      The Unforgettable, Uplifting And Cosy New Festive Holiday Romance For 2024 From The Million-Copy Best-Selling Author

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      The delightful new romantic series from the bestselling author of The Cornish Cream Tea novels. ‘Gorgeous…’ Woman ‘One of our favourite women’s fiction stars’ – Heat ‘A warm and wonderful read’ – Woman’s Own In a beautiful seaside village, where enormous blue skies and golden sand dunes stretch into forever, somebody is opening an unexpected gift…When an anonymous parcel turns up at the shop where Sophie works, she’s surprised to find a beautifully bound classic novel, one that eerily seems to chime with her own story.Enigmatic Harry lives in a crumbling manor house, spending solitary days patching up leaks in the roof. The subject of unwelcome gossip in the village since his return from London, he prefers to keep to himself.As Christmas draws near and the gifting season arrives, Sophie attempts to get to the bottom of her mysterious parcel. Finding herself being drawn into Harry’s orbit, they are both about to learn that good stories can take on a life of their own …

      The Secret Bookshop: The Secret Christmas Bookshop2024
      3,0
    • The Happy Hour

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time?The deliciously captivating new standalone from the bestselling author of The Staycation and The Cornish Cream Tea series.Can they fall in love, sixty minutes at a time?Jess is perfectly happy working in Greenwich market with her job in a cramped gift shop that sells trinkets to well-heeled locals and excitable tourists. She is also perfectly happy being single, and with her small circle of friends who don’t ask her too many awkward questions. Jess is less delighted with her cramped bedsit, but as long as she’s able to duck under the radar at work —and in life — she thinks she’s doing just fine.Then one Sunday, Jess is thrown together with handsome, funny Ash, as they chase a pickpocket through the market, and before long they are making a habit of running into each other once a week. Jess starts to realize that their ‘Happy Hour’ is the brightest part of her life and being perfectly happy doesn’t seem like enough anymore.But is one hour a week really enough time to fall in Iove …?

      The Happy Hour2024
      3,7
    • Warm and escapist fiction from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream Tea series Praise for Cressida McLaughlin: 'Gorgeous!' Phillipa Ashley 'Perfect' Cathy Bramley 'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain Sunshine awaits in the beautiful Cornish coastal town of Port Karadow where a romance and a Cornish cream tea are always on the menu ... There's no place like home. There's no place like Cornwall... Maisie Winters has everything she could ever want. She lives in the idyllic Cornish town of Port Karadow, has a jammy job in her dad's shop, adores her rescue mutt, and has time to take the landscape photos she loves. While her best friend and sister left the town to chase big dreams in London and New York, Maisie stayed - she wouldn't leave her favourite place for anything ... or anyone. When her long-time crush, Colm Caffrey, returns from a decade abroad, old feelings start to resurface. Maisie begins to ask herself if there might be one big thing missing after all?

      From Cornwall with Love (The Cornish Cream Tea series, Book 8)2023
      4,1
    • The Cornish Cream Tea Holiday

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Another uplifting and summery escape from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream tea series

      The Cornish Cream Tea Holiday2022
      4,3
    • The Staycation

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Deliciously escapist fiction from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream Tea series.

      The Staycation2022
      3,6
    • 'Captivating' Heat Magazine 'Beautiful... heartwarming' Zara Stoneley 'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain

      The Cornish Cream Tea Wedding2021
      4,2
    • Christmas Carols and a Cornish Cream Tea

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Can she spread Christmas cheer in Cornwall this year?All Meredith Verren has ever wanted is to escape the holiday season without having to wear a Christmas jumper. Her new job at the cosy gift shop in a picturesque Cornish tourist spot is making it impossible for her to maintain her scrooge-like manner.With their seasonal hampers on everyone’s wish list, Meredith must paste on a smile and fake some holiday cheer. Then she meets handsome new arrival, Finn, who wishes it could be Christmas every day and wants her to feel the same way too.Can she embrace the holly and the ivy before the decorations are packed away for another year?

      Christmas Carols and a Cornish Cream Tea2021
      4,1
    • The Cornish Cream Tea Summer

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      'Captivating' Heat Magazine 'Beautiful... heartwarming' Zara Stoneley 'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain

      The Cornish Cream Tea Summer2020
      4,2
    • The Cornish Cream Tea Christmas

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Praise for Cressida McLaughlin: 'Captivating' Heat Magazine 'Beautiful... heartwarming' Zara Stoneley 'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain

      The Cornish Cream Tea Christmas2020
      4,2
    • The Cornish cream tea bus

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Next stop, Cornwall! Hop on The Cornish Cream Tea Bus for a delicious, romantic adventure... 'Captivating' Heat Magazine 'Beautiful... heartwarming' Zara Stoneley 'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain Baking fanatic, Charlie Quilter, inherits a vintage bus in her late uncle's will and is keen to give it a new lease of life. Charlie thinks it will be the perfect mobile café for afternoon tea, so she heads to the picturesque Cornish village of Porthgolow, hoping for a new start. However, Daniel Harper, the owner of the posh spa up on the hill isn't very pleased that her bus is parked outside his lovely hotel. Has Charlie's Cornish dream developed a soggy bottom? Or can she convince Daniel that her bus could take them somewhere wonderful?

      The Cornish cream tea bus2019
      4,2
    • The Once In A Blue Moon Guesthouse

      • 464 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení

      The charming new bestseller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat Cafe Robin Brennan has come home to Campion Bay. Now her parents have retired, she's set to become the new landlady of The Campion Bay Guesthouse. Bookings have been as thin as the hand towels, and it doesn't take long for Robin to realise that the place needs a serious makeover. Perhaps throwing herself into the task will help to heal her sadness at the tragic end to her dreams in London. As she gives the guesthouse a new lease of life, Robin encounters old friends and new, including old flame Tim, who'd clearly like to reboot their romance. But what about Will, the new arrival at No. 4, who's rocked up with the cutest dog ever? Caught up in a flurry of full-English breakfasts and cream teas, Robin's never sure what, or who, the next check-in will bring...

      The Once In A Blue Moon Guesthouse2017
      4,0
    • The Canal Boat Cafe

      • 480 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení

      `Warm and wonderful...bursting with characters you'll adore' Miranda Dickinson

      The Canal Boat Cafe2016
      4,0
    • A Christmas Tail

      • 449 stránek
      • 16 hodin čtení

      A heart-warming Christmas read, perfect for fans of Debbie Johnson, Trisha Ashley and Jenny Oliver and one for dog-lovers everywhere.

      A Christmas Tail2015
      3,9