The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop … for a fortnight.
Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.
Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).
Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.
Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She’s just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.
Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday – running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks – is non-refundable.
Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.
But there’s one problem – six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who’s also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks…
As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from – and why he’s hiding out in Clove Lore.
Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale…
Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.
Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).
Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.
Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She’s just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.
Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday – running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks – is non-refundable.
Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.
But there’s one problem – six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who’s also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks…
As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from – and why he’s hiding out in Clove Lore.
Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale…
Time to tick another off the netgalley list, i was already a big fan of Kileys work and have previously reviewed it on my blog, so i was excited to see i had requested this (and that it is a series!)
I knew from page one this is the sort of book i love and i was right, within pages i had fallen back into comfort. Jude was a brilliant leading lady she was funny, kept her family in her heart and slightly insecure after a few mishaps had led her to making this leap. She has just finished uni (a slightly more mature student ) and was ready to take the leap with her boyfriend when the world crashes down and things back at home change too.
Elliot is fleeing something and right now is keeping his cards close to his chest, so when he also gets a solo invite to the Borrow a Bookshop he heads that way. What he didnt expect was to be met with Jude who is feeling rather hostile about her dream been stolen away from her.
This was after all Judes dream and despite planning on attending with her boyfriend, she had taken the plunge to fulfil the dream for herself - running a bookshop, what more could she want. Tensions are quite high at first as the pair decide to work alongside each other and support each others dream (not after a few arguments about it at first)
Elliot is very vague about alot of things and whilst although the couple are getting to know each other we really don't learn all too much, and with that he flees in the night looking like he has left chaos in his wake, what follows when he does return just at the same time as the annual fox hunt leads to the biggest misunderstanding of all - can the pair actually talk it all out?
I really really loved this book, i have always been a fan of Kileys writing, and it feels like a warm hug to me, its the style i like about subjects i enjoy with a small town cozy vibes. Its the sort of book i enjoy snuggling down to read on a cold night. Wonderful quirky characters with enough flaws that they are realistic, they are interesting and all have depth to them.
Overall a great read and i cannot wait to read more.
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I’m Kiley Dunbar, a Scottish, working class author of romantic fiction. I have two kids, one Bedlington Terrier and I live in England with my partner of twenty five (!) years.
Join in the romantic fun in summer 2025 as I launch a brand new series, starting with Fixing a Broken Heart at the Highland Repair Shop for the magnificent Boldwood Books.
I can’t wait to take you to the little Cairngorms Fixing Factory where nobody ever takes broken for an answer, and that goes for broken hearts too!
Publishing romantic fiction felt like nothing but a dream right up until I turned forty in 2019. That’s when my debut novel, One Summer’s Night, was released by the fabulous Hera Books (and was a Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers finalist). Before that I’d poured all my writing mojo into a doctorate and an academic career, but a campus closure and impending redundancy gave me the push I needed to start dreaming of telling the love stories I’d wanted to write for years. I have published eleven novels including my bestselling The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday. You can buy my books here.
Would you like to write your novel with me? You can access my new romance writing webinar series with Patreon.
I hope you enjoy reading my books. I love taking a destination close to my heart and adding a wee bit of drama, magic and romance to really make it my own.
Join my mailing list to keep in touch. I promise I’ll only contact you when I have big news and treats to share. Or come find me on Instagram and Facebook.
Join in the romantic fun in summer 2025 as I launch a brand new series, starting with Fixing a Broken Heart at the Highland Repair Shop for the magnificent Boldwood Books.
I can’t wait to take you to the little Cairngorms Fixing Factory where nobody ever takes broken for an answer, and that goes for broken hearts too!
Publishing romantic fiction felt like nothing but a dream right up until I turned forty in 2019. That’s when my debut novel, One Summer’s Night, was released by the fabulous Hera Books (and was a Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers finalist). Before that I’d poured all my writing mojo into a doctorate and an academic career, but a campus closure and impending redundancy gave me the push I needed to start dreaming of telling the love stories I’d wanted to write for years. I have published eleven novels including my bestselling The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday. You can buy my books here.
Would you like to write your novel with me? You can access my new romance writing webinar series with Patreon.
I hope you enjoy reading my books. I love taking a destination close to my heart and adding a wee bit of drama, magic and romance to really make it my own.
Join my mailing list to keep in touch. I promise I’ll only contact you when I have big news and treats to share. Or come find me on Instagram and Facebook.
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