Chrissie Manby Books in Order

Fiona, Kerry and Linzi are already battling over bills, chores and cramped living. Then Linzi's feckless boyfriend Gaetano arrives, and their shared flat slides into romantic and domestic chaos.

Lara Fenton falls hard for the dazzling Hugh Armstrong-Hamilton, even though he treats her badly. As the relationship wears on, she has to decide whether settling for scraps is really better than starting again.

After winning a romantic holiday for two while recovering from surgery, Ali Harris should be celebrating. Instead she has no partner to take, a meddling ex-fiancé, and a growing tangle of comic complications.

Lizzie has spent years emailing her successful American ex about a fabulous life she does not actually live. When he announces a visit, she scrambles to keep the fantasy standing before everything collapses.

Lizzie Jordan thinks drama school and life with boyfriend Richard are leading somewhere glamorous. A month later she is in Venice Beach, waitressing in a notorious bar and pretending to be engaged to a gay Hollywood director.

Ruby, Martin and Lou are fed up with talking about bad relationships and missed chances. So they take matters into each other's hands, placing personal ads and arranging dates that are funny, risky and sometimes too close to home.

Rachel Buckley's luxury hen week in Turkey should be a carefree send-off to married life. But once her two best friends bring their own baggage into the sun, cocktails and heat, the holiday becomes a real test of friendship.

Dr Jennifer Niederhauser takes charge of a chimpanzee project and hopes to prove herself as a serious zoologist. Instead she lands in a chaotic sanctuary full of financial trouble, clashing personalities and unwanted romantic attention.

With her wedding looming, Heidi Savage starts to wonder if her fiancé is really husband material. When an appealing ex reappears, her cold feet turn into a full-blown crisis about love, marriage and the future.

Sisters Charity and Grace Grosvenor step into a money-soaked world after a life-changing windfall. In the Hamptons, new wealth brings glamour, temptation and the awkward truth that cash does not simplify love.

Lindsey Parker sabotages her father's remarriage, only to realize she has broken his heart as well as the engagement. Fixing the mess means interfering again, this time by targeting the wrong man and catching feelings herself.

Emily Brown's struggling Essex salon gets a boost when a reality TV star walks through the door. Success quickly turns sour, though, as sabotage, secrets and a fierce beauty-business rivalry threaten to wreck everything.

Celebrity-obsessed heiress Birdie Sederburg thinks being seen with rising actor Dean Stevenson could lead to true love. What starts as a publicity-friendly romance soon spirals into delusion, schemes and comic disaster.

When Ashley Prince is dumped, she does not take it well. Her attempts to win back her ex, with stalking, shouting and a dab of witchcraft, turn heartbreak into a gloriously bad idea.

Late-blooming bride Kate is planning the wedding she never thought she'd have, while fellow bride Diana is chasing her own fairy-tale day. Set against royal-wedding fever, the novel pits romance, nerves and family expectations against reality.

Dumped just before a long-awaited trip to Majorca, Sophie decides to pretend she's gone anyway and hide at home. Keeping up the lie becomes funnier, stranger and much harder than she ever expected.

Part guide, part pep talk, this nonfiction book sees Manby unpack how she gets ideas and shapes a novel. It's a handy, witty read for aspiring writers and fans curious about her process.

Newly single Milly Arnold reluctantly joins her family's tradition of writing Christmas lists, then starts receiving everything she asked for. The magic feels lovely at first, until Santa begins taking her requests a little too literally.

As Christmas approaches, the Benson family is drawn into the life of Annabel Buchanan, the daughter their mother gave up for adoption years earlier. With Annabel's child in need of a kidney donor, old secrets suddenly matter very much.

A short novella about backup plans, romantic uncertainty and the trouble that starts when life refuses to follow the script. Manby keeps the pace brisk and the humour close to the surface.

Newly single Chelsea Benson dreads a week in Lanzarote with her entire family. Then her parents drop a bombshell, and the holiday turns into a test of whether the Bensons can survive one another.

A short Christmas story with a tender emotional centre, where winter hopes collide with real life. Manby keeps it warm, readable and focused on the small surprises that can change a season.

A luxury cruise sounds like the perfect treat for the Benson family after an unexpected windfall. But with marriage nerves, old tensions and too much time together at sea, the trip is never going to be simple.

Chelsea Benson has just twelve weeks to plan a winter wedding, and her big, opinionated family is determined to help. Between sisterly rows, money worries, a difficult mother-in-law and festive chaos, her dream day starts to wobble.

This collection gathers short fiction from across Manby's warm, witty corner of contemporary romance. The stories are quick to dip into and full of seaside moods, awkward feelings and hopeful turns.

Kirsty lands her dream role as Cinderella in the Newbay panto and hopes working with her boyfriend will bring them closer. Instead she finds rivalries, mishaps and suspicious accidents waiting backstage.

Halloween usually kicks off party season for the Benson-Edwards family, but this year Jack is grieving the loss of his cat Fishy. The novella follows one autumn celebration where family warmth has to compete with sadness.

In Newbay, three hopeless cooks sign up for a beginner's class for very different reasons. Kitchen disasters soon turn into friendship, and chef Alex's course may offer more than recipes.

After an office-party flirtation lands Mark in trouble and little Jack starts his own campaign for redemption, Christmas gets tense in the Benson-Edwards household. Their good deeds mean well, but the road back to festive peace is a messy one.

Dani Parker is still working in Newbay when an old boyfriend walks back into her life, complete with a fiancée. Around her, her teenage daughter and widowed mother have romantic complications of their own, and all three women start wondering whether love really only comes once.

Kathy heads to Florence for a wedding, hoping for romance with her boyfriend Neil, but a travel mix-up leaves her stranded alone. A few unexpected days in the city force her to rethink the life she's been settling for.

Lily books a pre-Christmas stay at Mistletoe Cottage in the Yorkshire Dales, hoping the break will rescue her relationship with Duncan. Instead the holiday brings complications, close quarters and hard questions about what should come next.

Stupendo the dog is dead, but he is not ready to leave. As a ghost, he tries to understand the sadness hanging over single mother Tuesday's home and protect the family he still loves.