The latest story by author Colette Cooper, a Christmas, one night, small town romance!**One magical snowy night...**to forever?Romance is strictly off midwife Freya’s agenda; her painful past taught her that. Then her world collides — literally! — with moody consultant, Dr Henry. He might be spectacularly competent and arrestingly handsome, but his grumpy indifference is nothing short of infuriating! Until Henry reveals a terrible loss he’s suffere...

Mills & Boon Medical — Life and love in the world of modern medicine.‘Tis the Season For An Outback Fling - Clare ConnellyHot doc for the holidays!For city girl Mariah, doing her final GP registrar rotation in a tiny outback town is not ideal. Nor is her explosive attraction to new boss, Dr Harrison. Though she craves the striking widower and adores his sweet daughter, Mariah’s upbringing proved she can’t ...

Colette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation‘I will never be able to help anyone imagine the splendour, bound up in my memories’Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves and apricots. Beyond it is the village, where travelling performers stop for the night and wedding feasts take place under a bright summer moon. Inside her house are Mama, ...

‘Fine teeth, my girl. With teeth like that I’d have gobbled up Paris and the rest of the world.'Gigi, a teenage girl in fin-de-siècle Paris, is being groomed by her family to become a high-class courtesan, just like her aunt and grandmother before her. But despite their best efforts, their timid protégée may have other ideas for her future...Colette's famous novella is a sly and delicate depiction of exploitation and resistance, and is paired here with the...

Colette's subversive and witty tale of a woman's bid for freedom in Belle Époque France, in a fresh new Penguin Classics translation‘It’s definitely me there, covered in purple rouge, eyes ringed with a halo of blue greasepaint that’s beginning to melt’Renée, aged thirty-three and divorced from her serially unfaithful husband, reinvents herself as a dancer and mime artist in France’s music halls. When a wealthy suitor appears promising marriage and...

Chéri: spoiled, petulant, beautiful, aged twenty-five. Léa: magnificent, brilliant, remorseless, aged forty-nine. They are in love, but their relationship exists beyond the bounds of social acceptability and must one day come to an end, no matter the cost.A succ**ès de scandale on publication for its depiction of transgressive love, Colette’s celebrated novella is also a profound and compelling exploration of the passage of time, the body and ageing, mirrors, self-percepti...

Maeve Elliot, Forever FM's glamorous, successful DJ, is so busy being photographed at the right parties she's completely lost track of what's really important in life.Linda Jewell knows her marriage isn't exactly exciting but who is she to complain? Until she discovers her husband has been having an affair with a girl half his age.Carrie Lambe has always been cannon fodder for her family and a doormat for her boyfriend until she lands a job at the hip radio station, Forever...

Toni was incredibly flattered when distinguished, razor-sharp surgeon Theodore French showed more than a professional interest in her. But after several years of marriage, she realises that his cold disciplinarian stance is more than skin deep.Theo has become distant and cruel since he realised that Toni was not the ideal wife after all and though that saddens her, Toni is more concerned at the rather unethical decisions he is making at the clinic.Just as she decides to tak...

When the worst happens to Doug, his is not the only life shaken up.Pamela, his ambitious wife, had her life all mapped out but its thrown into chaos when her husband's illness stirs things up and leads him to question his life and their future.When Gina Barrett finally gets the promotion she's dreamed about, life should be perfect… if only she could find a man who understood the meaning of the word 'commitment'.Susie Clarke can't believe it when she lands the perfec...

Stephanie West loves her job as manager of a successful restaurant, but is treated appallingly by the self-obsessed owner and head chef. So when an opportunity arises to buy him out, she jumps at it. Then her boyfriend Sean lands a huge contract with a software company in Arizona and wants her to go with him. Torn between him and her career, Stephanie struggles to come to terms with a tragedy in her past which has left her terrified of becoming dependent on any one. Will she come to realis...

The career pivot that feels impossible isn't waiting for more credentials-it's waiting for you to translate theones you already have into a language hiring managers can decode in eleven seconds. Colette Norwood'sinsightful book explores the unique pressure of changing careers when financial urgency and market realityconverge, and conventional job search advice no longer applies.Career Change Fast is not a career quiz, a passion discovery guide, or a long-ter...

What happens when an ancient dragon — whose hoard spans continents and centuries — meets a forensic accountant who simply will not be intimidated? That question sits at the heart of Colette Beauvais's irresistible anthology, a collection of ten sharp, witty, and surprisingly tender stories about dragons navigating the complexities of the modern world, and the extraordinary women who refuse to be impressed by them. In these pages, beings who have accumulated wealth, power, and possessivenes...