Secondhand Romance Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4010

Secondhand Romance Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2854

Twenty-five titles from across the full spectrum of contemporary women’s fiction — Santa Montefiore, Fern Britton, Trisha Ashley, Rosamunde Pilcher, Nicholas Sparks, Sophie Kinsella, Patricia Scanlan, and more — spanning romance, family drama, coastal fiction, and the very funny. Please note these are secondhand copies and may show light signs of wear.

1. The Guernsey Girls — Mary Wood — A story of friendship and resistance set on wartime Guernsey, from the author of The Jam Factory Girls; Wood writes wartime ensemble fiction with consistent emotional engagement.
2. Orange Blossom Days — Patricia Scanlan — A novel following three women whose lives become intertwined around an Andalusian villa; Scanlan’s gift for warmth and sharp observation of friendship is at full strength here.
3. Take a Look at Me Now — Anita Notaro — A woman rebuilding her life discovers unexpected connections and unexpected courage in this warm Irish novel from the bestselling author.
4. Old Friends, New Friends — Margaret Thornton — A Yorkshire friendship across generations is tested and renewed in this warm family saga from one of the genre’s most dependable writers.
5. Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up — Alexandra Potter — A sharply funny novel about a woman whose life has spectacularly not gone to plan at forty-something; Potter’s comic timing is impeccable and the book has been compared to Bridget Jones at its most honest.
6. Message in a Bottle — Nicholas Sparks — A man discovers a series of love letters in bottles on the coast and becomes obsessed with finding the woman who wrote them; Sparks at his most emotionally effective.
7. The Wedding Girls — Kate Thompson — Three women who have dedicated their lives to making other people’s weddings perfect must each confront what they want for themselves in this warm and funny novel.
8. Girl on the Run — Jane Costello — A woman enters a race to win back the man she loves and discovers she might be running toward the wrong things in this very funny romantic comedy.
9. Sea of Lost Love — Santa Montefiore — A woman on a Cornish estate begins uncovering the secrets of the past in one of Montefiore’s most atmospheric novels; the coastal setting is beautifully realised.
10. The Bad Mother’s Handbook — Kate Long — A three-generational story of mothers and daughters, mistakes and recovery, in this warm and funny novel that handles complex family dynamics with unusual honesty.
11. The Domestic Goddess — Sophie Kinsella — The novel published under Kinsella’s pen name Madeleine Wickham, in which a domestic goddess’s perfect life proves to be considerably less perfect than it appears. Comic and acerbic.
12. The Butterfly Box — Santa Montefiore — A woman discovers a butterfly box that unlocks the mystery of her mother’s past in this characteristically lush and romantic Montefiore novel. One of her most emotionally involving books.
13. A Leap of Faith — Trisha Ashley — A woman takes a huge risk and discovers that leaping into the unknown was exactly what she needed; Ashley’s warmth and wit are consistent pleasures.
14. Bay of Secrets — Rosanna Ley — A woman travels to Mallorca to discover the truth about her mother’s past and finds secrets that transform her understanding of her own life. Ley’s Spanish settings are among the most evocative in contemporary fiction.
15. The Things We Left Unsaid — Emma Kennedy — A novel about the things that go unsaid between people who love each other, and the damage those silences do; Kennedy writes emotional drama with unusual precision.
16. Daughters of Cornwall — Fern Britton — Three women across three eras of Cornish history are linked by secrets and love in this ambitious novel from the Sunday Times Number One bestseller. Britton’s historical scope is broader than her usual work.
17. Welcome Back to Rambling, Texas — June Faver — A city woman returns to a small Texas town and finds herself drawn into the community and into the arms of a very unexpected man in this warm American romance.
18. The Summer Deal — Jill Shalvis — A woman and her ex-boyfriend become accidental housemates; Shalvis writes contemporary romance with real wit and emotional intelligence. A New York Times bestseller.
19. Loving Lovina — Patricia Johns — An Amish romance in which a woman who has left the community must return and confront everything she left behind, including a man she never stopped thinking about.
20. Flowers in the Rain and Other Stories — Rosamunde Pilcher — A collection of Pilcher’s short fiction, gathered across her career; the warmth, precision, and emotional intelligence of her longer novels in concentrated form.
21. Queen Bee — Dorothea Benton Frank — A New York Times bestseller following three women in coastal South Carolina whose lives become entangled in ways none of them anticipated. Frank’s Lowcountry settings are irresistible.
22. The Islanders — Meg Mitchell Moore — A novel about three strangers who spend a summer on Block Island and find their lives changed in ways they could not have predicted. Moore writes with considerable emotional intelligence.
23. Wild Mountain Thyme — Rosamunde Pilcher — A Scottish love story and a road trip across the Highlands; one of Pilcher’s most beloved novels, later adapted as a film.
24. The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories — Rosamunde Pilcher — A late collection of Pilcher’s short fiction, showing the warmth and quiet precision that made her one of the most loved popular fiction writers of the twentieth century.
25. In Bloom — Fern Michaels, Carolyn Brown & Lori Foster — Three novellas celebrating new beginnings and second chances, gathered in a single seasonal collection from three of contemporary romance’s most dependable names.