The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan

The Bookshop on the Corner

A Novel

Jenny Colgan

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 20, 2016

Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers.

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Who it’s for
Layered, gentle, and easy to hand to the next person at book club.
Genres
Romantic Comedy, Small-Town Fiction, Contemporary Romance
Published
HarperCollins, September 20, 2016

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About this book

Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop. Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion… and also her job.

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Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile — a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling. From helping her grumpy landlord deliver a lamb, to sharing picnics with a charming train conductor who serenades her with poetry, Nina discovers there’s plenty of adventure, magic, and soul in a place that’s beginning to feel like home… a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending.

Quiet Charms

Layered, gentle, and easy to hand to the next person at book club.

Come here for

  • book-club conversation
  • clean, romantic comfort

Expect

  • a serious-meets-playful tone
  • steady, immersive reading

Where it sits

Small-Town Fiction67%
Romantic Comedy45%
Contemporary Romance24%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Literary Fiction
  • Cozy Mysteries
  • Contemporary Romance
  • Romantic Comedy
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  • Women's Fiction
  • Small-Town Fiction
  • 21st-Century American Fiction
  • 21st-Century English Fiction
Authors
Jenny Colgan
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
September 20, 2016
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Literary Fiction